Artist Piotr Szyhalski’s COVID-19: Labor Camp Reports are a daily series of poster designs inspired by news events; the first posted on March 24, 2020. This prolific series can be seen on Instagram, and is soon to be published as a book (see Kickstarter video below). These “vintage” protest and propaganda poster designs are lush, striking, and painfully relevant. I’m impressed Szyhalski has such strong design ideas day after day, but unfortunately if it’s the news that inspires him, he’s not running short on material. See more of his work on Instagram.
COVID-19 : Labor Camp Report : July 21, 2020 “I heard mothers singing lullabies on the street in Portland. They were there to protect our restless bodies and souls from the violence perpetrated by the criminal Regime. It seems as though even the most silent of moments now are filled with deep, ongoing state of unrest. How are you sleeping?”
At the League next week: Poster Making Teen Camp
July 27-31, 9:30 – 11:30am For ages 13-17 Teacher: Nikki Barber
Learn to create multi-color posters, using your own hand cut designs. In this course, students will learn how to employ line, form, and color with stenciling techniques to generate unique and bold posters, using non toxic paint and a brush. After completion, students will have original, art prints they can hang on their walls, give to friends, or put in their window. ALL LEVELS. PREREQUISITES: none
I was interested in learning how to better see and describe what makes Charity Baker’s drawings and paintings so captivating, and she gave me a list of her teachers from the New York Studio School. Goldmine! I posted drawings by her teacher Barbara Grossman yesterday. Today I found drawings by Stanley Lewis. Although the two …
Once upon a time, Western figurative artworks didn’t express much movement. …and then someone bent their knee, shifted their weight, and the (boom-pow) interplay of weight and balance in Western art began. Over time, artists began to relax and exaggerate the pose, and we had figures like this: It wasn’t a straight line from standing …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7137″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Occasionally I can’t find my own darned painting on my own darned computer, so I’ll ask Google if it’s online somewhere. Today I was working on portrait palettes, and was looking for some of the quick portrait studies I’ve done. I remembered one and couldn’t find it on my …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10246″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Water is notoriously difficult to draw or paint, but there are a few tricks. Instead of making the paint translucent or see-through, consider mixing the colors carefully, and applying the color just as opaquely as you would for a solid object. If you have reflections coming in over still …
COVID-19: Labor Camp Reports
Artist Piotr Szyhalski’s COVID-19: Labor Camp Reports are a daily series of poster designs inspired by news events; the first posted on March 24, 2020. This prolific series can be seen on Instagram, and is soon to be published as a book (see Kickstarter video below). These “vintage” protest and propaganda poster designs are lush, striking, and painfully relevant. I’m impressed Szyhalski has such strong design ideas day after day, but unfortunately if it’s the news that inspires him, he’s not running short on material. See more of his work on Instagram.
COVID-19 : Labor Camp Report : July 21, 2020
COVID-19 : Labor Camp Report : July 21, 2020 “I heard mothers singing lullabies on the street in Portland. They were there to protect our restless bodies and souls from the violence perpetrated by the criminal Regime. It seems as though even the most silent of moments now are filled with deep, ongoing state of unrest. How are you sleeping?”
At the League next week:
Poster Making Teen Camp
July 27-31, 9:30 – 11:30am
For ages 13-17
Teacher: Nikki Barber
Learn to create multi-color posters, using your own hand cut designs. In this course, students will learn how to employ line, form, and color with stenciling techniques to generate unique and bold posters, using non toxic paint and a brush. After completion, students will have original, art prints they can hang on their walls, give to friends, or put in their window. ALL LEVELS. PREREQUISITES: none
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