Tuesday is Memory and Imagination day in our 30 Day Challenge. Dreams are today’s topic. I’ve collected artworks with dream imagery, or at least artworks that were stirred up when I searched Google for artworks with “Dream” in the title.
Joe Minter, The Dreamer, 2005
Your challenge today is to recreate a dreamscape. You can draw, paint, print, collage, assemblage, or set a strobe with twinkle lights. Your dream might even be a swath of color with a vague and disappearing outline of….
The primary challenge is to respond to the creative prompts in these posts, and see what happens.
Joan Miro, Photo: This is the Color of My Dreams, 1925
Oh Joan, you clever cutie-pie.
Composition tip
When portraying a person dreaming, it is best to lay the person across the lower right corner, with their right arm reaching up to touch the top of their head, evidently.
Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, A Eunuch’s Dream, 1874
Ary de Vois, Jacob’s Dream, 1660–80
Domenico Feti, Jacob’s Dream, 1613 or 1614
Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781
Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897
Salvador Dalí, Dream caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Waking up, 1944
Robert William Buss, Dickens Dream
This Goya has the diagonal of the figure going the opposite way, except it is a print, so it would have been drawn in reverse. Ha.
Francisco de Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1796-1798
Jacob’s Ladder
Jacob’s Ladder is a biblical story about a ladder from earth to heaven, and angles going up and down it. Behold.
Nicolas Dipre, The dream of Jacob, 1500
Domenico Feti Jacob’s Dream, 1613 or 1614
Ary de Vois, Jacob’s Dream, 1660–80
The Reality of Dreams
Frida would often paint her dreams. In “The Dream / The Bed” is a portrait of herself in her bed. Following is a photograph of her actual bed on display. The accuracy reminds me how intent she was to paint her true experiences.
Frida Kahlo, The Dream (The Bed), 1940
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo, The Dream
Hokusai, Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, 1814Followers of Hieronymous Bosch, The Vision of Tundale, 1520–30Salvador Dali, The Dream, 1931
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We spend our lives around and within the internet, using email and text messages. But these digital layers of information have yet to integrate into our paintings. Why? These images present us with quandaries. How do we combine the “real world” with “online world” … and should these screen images really be put in paint at all? How many …
Here it is, we have arrived at the end of this nearly unending 30 Day Challenge. You’ve all been good creative sports about the hardship – I could almost believe some of you enjoyed it. In the next few days I’ll start posting my favorites, and then I’ll post the winners of the prizes after …
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30SAL Challenge: Dream
Tuesday is Memory and Imagination day in our 30 Day Challenge. Dreams are today’s topic. I’ve collected artworks with dream imagery, or at least artworks that were stirred up when I searched Google for artworks with “Dream” in the title.
Your challenge today is to recreate a dreamscape. You can draw, paint, print, collage, assemblage, or set a strobe with twinkle lights. Your dream might even be a swath of color with a vague and disappearing outline of….
The primary challenge is to respond to the creative prompts in these posts, and see what happens.
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PADLET: https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/fl2cnuio5g0ocsfp
Oh Joan, you clever cutie-pie.
Composition tip
When portraying a person dreaming, it is best to lay the person across the lower right corner, with their right arm reaching up to touch the top of their head, evidently.
This Goya has the diagonal of the figure going the opposite way, except it is a print, so it would have been drawn in reverse. Ha.
Jacob’s Ladder
Jacob’s Ladder is a biblical story about a ladder from earth to heaven, and angles going up and down it. Behold.
The Reality of Dreams
Frida would often paint her dreams. In “The Dream / The Bed” is a portrait of herself in her bed. Following is a photograph of her actual bed on display. The accuracy reminds me how intent she was to paint her true experiences.
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t.
I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” Frida Kahlo
30SAL CHALLENGE
SUNDAY: Observation
MONDAY: Composition
TUESDAY: Memory / Imagination
WEDNESDAY: See & Respond
THURSDAY: Vocabulary
FRIDAY: 2020Comic
SATURDAY: Experimental
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