Last month I posted 16 Ways to Reduce the Carbon Footprint in Your Art Studio and I invited artists to contribute their ideas. One artist was chosen for their answer, and has won a free class: Courtney Wooten pointed out that as artists, our greatest potential for impact can be made by using our art …
Washing a brush seems simple enough: Step 1. Get the paint out Step 2. Congratulate yourself on your success. Obvious, no? I was years out of art school, and I had ruined several hundreds of dollars of brushes before I learned how to properly care for my tools. Below are two simple videos on brush care. …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. ULOTRICHOUS Derived from a Greek word meaning …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7537″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Look around you. If you were a travel agency, hoping to entice someone to this place, what would you put on the postcard? Draw, paint, or collage a postcard with this picture, saying “Wish You Were Here.” Sarcasm and irony are very welcome. Take a picture of your piece and …
30SAL Challenge: 57 Cats and 1 Dog
“You all have been drawing so many cats, I figure I might as well make it official. Today, draw a cat.” – Ruthie V, 30SAL Challenge January 27, 2020
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Last month I posted 16 Ways to Reduce the Carbon Footprint in Your Art Studio and I invited artists to contribute their ideas. One artist was chosen for their answer, and has won a free class: Courtney Wooten pointed out that as artists, our greatest potential for impact can be made by using our art …
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Washing a brush seems simple enough: Step 1. Get the paint out Step 2. Congratulate yourself on your success. Obvious, no? I was years out of art school, and I had ruined several hundreds of dollars of brushes before I learned how to properly care for my tools. Below are two simple videos on brush care. …
SAL Challenge 9: ULOTRICHOUS
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. ULOTRICHOUS Derived from a Greek word meaning …
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