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.
While we reach for the hand sanitizer and hold our breaths, our Thursday drawing/painting class has been thinking about a different kind of Corona. We’ve been studying the effects of light, especially glow. I was interested in exploring why some images seem to glow. Take the image above as an example. Why, if an all-white …
Spring quarter classes completed last week, and we have a few week’s break before summer classes begin. At the request of my students, I’ll be posting creative project suggestions on V. Notes until classes start up again on June 21. Christo and Jeanne Claude On May 31, 2020, Christo, the his partner Jeanne Claude through …
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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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