I’ve made you wait long enough. One artist’s posts knocked my fluffy socks off this month. This artist showed an impressive amount of dedication and creative talent.
Big League Membership
The big prize for the 30SAL Challenge is Big League: a $150 Big League Membership to the League. Big League Memberships come with some big benefits:
Eligible to enter Seattle Artist League shows
Personal membership card
Discounts at participating art stores
Advance notice of upcoming classes and workshops
Seattle Artist League Magnet
Seattle Artist League Apron
10% off all classes and workshops
Big League Winner: Karl Dyer
Karl Dyer is a young artist who started at the Seattle Artist League with a figure drawing teen camp, and has been taking classes at the League consistently since, to fill the last year. His artwork has been deftly improving in technical skill and creativity. His work is sensitive and responsive to his environment, the sketches are keenly observant, and his marks are thoughtful and bold. His posts this month were impressive and fun. Check out his creative challenge responses with his comments below.
“Guitar Solo” -Day 29 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal challenge! Today’s challenge was to use a musical instrument to make art. I dipped my fingers in various pigments and played my guitar with a piece of paper between the strings and the frets. “Spare Parts” -Day 24 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge is not necessarily a drawing. It is to make art using non-art materials. I got out some spare parts and started arranging them! “Emperor Trump’s Hat” -Day 19 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge was to design a hat for someone famous, someone you know, or a fictional character.
“Make America GRATE again” -Day 11 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge was to make a tonal drawing using Frottage, or rubbing, to generate a texture, layering the texture to create tone. My texture comes from the household grater, from which I derived my subject. Who could be more grating than Mr Trump?“Yorm’s Truckstop” -Day 20 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge was to draw a memory, and this is an image from a dream that I had around age eight. The dream was a long and complicated one, but one moment that stood out was when while at this truck stop, an entire row of seemingly empty semis simultaneously started to life, and tried to run me down- I barely escaped with my life! And yes, Yorm’s was definitely the name of the truckstop.
“Lil Robot” -Day 10 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge built on yesterday’s foot theme, the idea being to draw a monopod creature. I didn’t realize the challenge was to attach a HUMANOID body to that foot, lol. So I give you lil robot. Also today’s design challenge was to make it dynamic. Well, what’s more dynamic than an animation?? “It’s the law” -Day 22 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January. Today’s challenge was to draw someone in this very specific stylized mid century cartoon/advertising illustration style. Here’s a fictional 1957 ad for Siller’s shaving cream, featuring the Siller’s Bobby, their stereotypical mascot.
“Doors” -Day 21 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge was to create a doorzien scene, a scene featuring a view from one room into another.
Leon Golub was an awkward man who made ugly paintings. They’re about power mostly. Violence, war, and other unhappy things. I learned about Golub in art school, around the first years of the internet. What impressed me more than his large scale work and hard edged process was his collection of reference images. Golub had file cabinets full …
Pouncing is a technique used for transferring an image from one surface to another. It is similar to tracing, and is useful for creating copies of a sketch outline to produce finished works.
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. PUERILE childishly silly and trivial. #salchallenge @seattleartistleague …
Tina Kraft is a talented South Florida artist with connections to our besties at the New York Studio School. It was at NYSS where we met many of our great instructors such as Fran O’Neil, Charity Baker, Catherine Lepp, Sam Wade Levy, Shruti Ghatak, and Jonathan Harkham. Our own Keith Pfieffer is currently pursuing his …
30SAL Challenge: The Big Win!
I’ve made you wait long enough. One artist’s posts knocked my fluffy socks off this month. This artist showed an impressive amount of dedication and creative talent.
Big League Membership
The big prize for the 30SAL Challenge is Big League: a $150 Big League Membership to the League. Big League Memberships come with some big benefits:
Big League Winner: Karl Dyer
Karl Dyer is a young artist who started at the Seattle Artist League with a figure drawing teen camp, and has been taking classes at the League consistently since, to fill the last year. His artwork has been deftly improving in technical skill and creativity. His work is sensitive and responsive to his environment, the sketches are keenly observant, and his marks are thoughtful and bold. His posts this month were impressive and fun. Check out his creative challenge responses with his comments below.
“Spare Parts” -Day 24 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge is not necessarily a drawing. It is to make art using non-art materials. I got out some spare parts and started arranging them!
“Emperor Trump’s Hat” -Day 19 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge was to design a hat for someone famous, someone you know, or a fictional character.
“Make America GRATE again” -Day 11 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge was to make a tonal drawing using Frottage, or rubbing, to generate a texture, layering the texture to create tone. My texture comes from the household grater, from which I derived my subject. Who could be more grating than Mr Trump?
“Lil Robot” -Day 10 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal challenge for the month of January! Today’s challenge built on yesterday’s foot theme, the idea being to draw a monopod creature. I didn’t realize the challenge was to attach a HUMANOID body to that foot, lol. So I give you lil robot. Also today’s design challenge was to make it dynamic. Well, what’s more dynamic than an animation??
“It’s the law” -Day 22 of #seattleartistleague ‘s #30sal drawing-a-day challenge for the month of January. Today’s challenge was to draw someone in this very specific stylized mid century cartoon/advertising illustration style. Here’s a fictional 1957 ad for Siller’s shaving cream, featuring the Siller’s Bobby, their stereotypical mascot.
Well done Karl. So glad you are part of the League! You have my enthusiastic support for any artistic endeavor you choose to take on.
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