Yesterday I said our farthest artist in the 30SAL Challenge might be Jennifer Econopouly in Bali. Then I received this note from Rachel Stockley: “I think you’ll find New Zealand at 11,613 trumps Bali for distance participation!”
Seattle to BaliSeattle to New Zealand
According to Google, it is 8,134 miles to Bali and 7,216 miles to New Zealand, so Jennifer is still the winner. I looked up the weather in New Zealand, and apparently while it is raining in Seattle and Bali, it is sunny in New Zealand. Sorry you didn’t win the farthest artist award, but you can still enjoy the sunny wop wops, Rachel.
It’s all sunshine in the wop wops of New Zealand
Best Art Buds
A lot of you hooked up with an art buddy to do the challenge. One of the sweetest art buddy tails was Mimi and her sister Marguerite. They each completed all 30 challenges, which Mimi reported was a pretty big deal. The two sisters also supplied us with a month long parade of cats.
This last illustration of smoking cats by @crewmar is a favorite of mine
30 Day Achiever
Add to the list of 30 out of 30 winners: Eileen Sliwinski. Eileen, you have earned yourself a League membership, and half a bag of slightly used kitty litter!
This is day 10 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. Draw someone talking. Instead of illustrating their face, focus on describing their character and story through their body language. The scene can be drawn in a comic style sequence of squares, or all in one frame like …
In art school, our art history course included a section on German Expressionism, featuring some paintings by Ludwig Kirchner. They looked something like this: Ludwig Kirchner, “Street, Berlin” (1913) I remember not liking them at the time. Expressionism? Everyone’s squeezed in like bristling sardines! The darkness behind the colors, the acidic contrasts, the dampening black, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10026″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Frida Kahlo, 1952 Portraits of Artist’s Fathers It’s father’s day, so I’ve collected some drawings and paintings of artist’s fathers. Evidently fathers often read the paper, and sit in chairs. Note: The names listed with the artworks are the artist’s names, not the father’s. SAL Challenge Create a portrait …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Preparing for my Unconventional Portraits class, I found this post on WideWalls: a top 10 list of the most influential living – or barely dead – famous portrait artists. You don’t have to like them, but you should know about them. I’m posting my personal thoughts about each …
30SAL Challenge: 8,134 miles and 21 cats
Yesterday I said our farthest artist in the 30SAL Challenge might be Jennifer Econopouly in Bali. Then I received this note from Rachel Stockley: “I think you’ll find New Zealand at 11,613 trumps Bali for distance participation!”
According to Google, it is 8,134 miles to Bali and 7,216 miles to New Zealand, so Jennifer is still the winner. I looked up the weather in New Zealand, and apparently while it is raining in Seattle and Bali, it is sunny in New Zealand. Sorry you didn’t win the farthest artist award, but you can still enjoy the sunny wop wops, Rachel.
Best Art Buds
A lot of you hooked up with an art buddy to do the challenge. One of the sweetest art buddy tails was Mimi and her sister Marguerite. They each completed all 30 challenges, which Mimi reported was a pretty big deal. The two sisters also supplied us with a month long parade of cats.
30 Day Achiever
Add to the list of 30 out of 30 winners: Eileen Sliwinski. Eileen, you have earned yourself a League membership, and half a bag of slightly used kitty litter!
Tomorrow: 57 Cats and 1 Dog
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