From my window, the smoke gives a terrible, surreal beauty to the landscape. A dampened and compressed eerie glow. There is a weight to it.
What do you see?
CALL FOR ART: SMOKE
I’ve received great submissions for this show! There’s still time to send in yours. Email artwork of any media you have documenting this smoke (photographs, drawings, paintings, prints, collage, assemblage – anything you’ve got!). I’ll show a selection of what I receive in an online show.
I’ve been talking about how to use hands as expressive elements within a drawing. I love this idea so much, both for technical practice and for powerful personal expression, that I made a class to study expressive hands and heads, and I started collecting examples. Some I collected because I appreciated the rendering. Some I collected because the artist …
Day 21 of our 30 day creative challenge in January was a transcription of Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne. The transcription didn’t have to be a copy, but I was looking for artists who were seeing the underlying story, structure, movement, and composition – as well as artists who took the inspiration into their own new …
Most League artists are busy people. You’re not the only one! I want to make these projects challenging but still accessible. If you miss a day, no biggie. If you miss two, join the club. If you can only do one out of 30, you still did one! Last I checked, one is way better …
[image_with_animation image_url=”6331″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] William Hook’s New Urban Landscapes Last winter, Bill Hook asked for some time off from teaching at the League so he could make more paintings. Looks like it was time well spent! This work appears to have gained a boldness. More texture, more dynamism. We have him teaching this …
Call for Art: Smoke
From my window, the smoke gives a terrible, surreal beauty to the landscape. A dampened and compressed eerie glow. There is a weight to it.
What do you see?
CALL FOR ART: SMOKE
I’ve received great submissions for this show! There’s still time to send in yours. Email artwork of any media you have documenting this smoke (photographs, drawings, paintings, prints, collage, assemblage – anything you’ve got!). I’ll show a selection of what I receive in an online show.
DETAILS
Please email your pictures. Include:
Emails must use the subject line “SMOKE”. Deadline Tuesday September 15.
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