Welcome to day 3 of our 30 Day Creative Challenge! Seattle is flooded today. There are quick moving streams along the sides of roads. Puddles the size of lakes. The primary challenge is to respond to the creative prompts in these posts, and see what happens. The alternative challenge is to make a comic based on the year 2020. You choose what you’re up for today. Today’s prompt will be applicable to both.
“Minu Ga Hana 「見ぬが花」.” Tiana Honda. Intaglio, Etching, Aquatint, Digital, Chine-colle.
30SAL Challenge: Submerge
For your 30SAL Challenge today: draw, paint, collage, print, photograph, cut, or 3D print something that is partially submerged in water.
Observational Drawing Suggestion: Your drawing does not have to be complicated. A simple object partially submerged in water can be quite interesting. See how the water distorts the shape. Draw what you see.
[image_with_animation image_url=”7362″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Sometimes I Google dumb things. For instance, I was wondering if I felt like doing a study of cloth in linocut. Instead of hanging a towel from a nail in the wall and lighting it, I armchaired my idea and Googled it. I was looking for pictures of hanging …
I used to think drawing was something I had to learn so that I could to get to painting. Lately I’ve grown to enjoy drawing for its own expressive abilities. Drawing is a spontaneous and immediate art. It is a direct record of the movement of the artist’s hand, a record of movement in time. …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8666″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] A couple days ago I shared “A Very Fancy Painting Tool” a rough but effective fast-made bridge. I received a great comment from Sue Rose, which prompted more thoughts for today: Sue Rose says: March 20, 2018 at 12:36 pm Cool! I have a tool, too. My mother has something …
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hoffman I wrote a V-Note September 19, 2016 about simplification and massing. You can read it here. Today’s V-Note: Marc Bohne One of the (many) reasons I struggle to paint outside is that I get so danged overwhelmed by everything. There’s …
30SAL Challenge: Submerge
Underwater Museum in Maldives)
Welcome to day 3 of our 30 Day Creative Challenge! Seattle is flooded today. There are quick moving streams along the sides of roads. Puddles the size of lakes. The primary challenge is to respond to the creative prompts in these posts, and see what happens. The alternative challenge is to make a comic based on the year 2020. You choose what you’re up for today. Today’s prompt will be applicable to both.
Intaglio, Etching, Aquatint, Digital, Chine-colle.
30SAL Challenge: Submerge
For your 30SAL Challenge today: draw, paint, collage, print, photograph, cut, or 3D print something that is partially submerged in water.
Observational Drawing Suggestion: Your drawing does not have to be complicated. A simple object partially submerged in water can be quite interesting. See how the water distorts the shape. Draw what you see.
Submerged Artworks
Showing now at ie gallery in Edison, Jan 1-30 2021
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