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!
I like to overlap figures, and use the shadow shapes to carve out abstracts within the body. This doesn’t just introduce abstraction, it also introduces a sense of time, and movement within a static image, in which I am fascinated. I asked my model how she felt about having her head cut off in …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8775″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] 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 of …
Alan Saret is an American sculptor, draftsman, and installation artist, best known for his Postminimalism wire sculptures and drawings. Saret was born in 1944, and is currently living and working in Brooklyn. Each of these “Gang Drawings” as he called them, were made by marking the page with a fistful of color pencils in seemingly …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9773″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Draw a tool. Focus on negative space: the space around the object, not just the object itself. Artists’ choice to collage, trace, draw, cut, or integrate multimedia. Inspirations by Richard Diebenkorn and Jim Dine. Thank you for sharing your work! I love seeing these artworks online. People who post …
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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