Today is the Memory/Imagination day of our 30 Day Creative Challenge.
Look at “The Desperate Man” by Gustave Courbet. Your challenge today is to imagine what he’s looking at, and recreate that.
Medium is artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, assemblage, assemble a diorama, or dress in drag.
Set a timer for 20 minutes. When the timer chimes, continue if you wish, but 20 minutes is a win.
Post it
Post your work to social media with the tags #30sal & #seattleartistleague. To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these tags and add them to your post:
To be eligible to win a prize, please post your work to Padlet.
PADLET JAN 11-16 https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/fl2cnuio5g0ocsfp
Prizes
1st Prize: $500 cash 2nd Prize: $250 SAL Gift Certificate 3rd Prize: $150 SAL Gift Certificate Honorable Mentions: $50 SAL Gift Certificates
Artists who complete all 30 challenges will be eligible to win special prizes, but you don’t have to complete all 30 to participate, or to win a prize. Set your own creative goals for January 2021 and submit pics of your original creations on social media, and Padlet.
Alternate 30SAL Challenge
Make a 2020-2021 Comic
As a possible alternative to the #30sal challenge, you can make a comic book or graphic novel based on the year 2020, and the terrible start to 2021. This comic could have any number of sketches, from a single page to all 30, and artists can work in teams. Open to all levels. Stick figures and crayons welcome! If this interests you, “What are you looking at” could be inspiration for your sketch today.
Remember to post your work with #30sal & #seattleartistleague, and add your submissions to Padlet – a spot for Comics has been added to Padlet!
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. TONDO At my recent artist’s talk, Suzanne …
Last weekend was our first annual Seattle Artist League Printmaker’s Show. On display were 30 pieces; beautiful displays of monotype, drypoint, linocut, woodcut and reductive woodcuts in black and white, and color. All of the prints were strong and interesting. Nikki has a way of getting good work out of people. We asked guests to compliment …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7694″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Hey – who mailed us the gnarly stick with the bobcat stamp? We love it. For the creative challenge today, let standardized paper and implements be darned. Mail us something strange. Do not post your strange mail to our facebook page. You wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise, would …
I have a guest V. Note today from our printmaking instructor Nikki Barber. Back in April 2020, Nikki interviewed Sam Davidson, of Davidson Galleries in Seattle. Nikki asked Sam about his favorite works in the Davidson collection. This is a delightful interview about a variety of printmaking artists around the globe, with interesting work I …
30SAL Challenge: What are you looking at?
Today is the Memory/Imagination day of our 30 Day Creative Challenge.
Look at “The Desperate Man” by Gustave Courbet. Your challenge today is to imagine what he’s looking at, and recreate that.
Medium is artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, assemblage, assemble a diorama, or dress in drag.
Set a timer for 20 minutes. When the timer chimes, continue if you wish, but 20 minutes is a win.
Post it
Post your work to social media with the tags #30sal & #seattleartistleague. To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these tags and add them to your post:
#30sal #seattleartistleague #drawingchallenge #drawing #art #illustration
#sketch #artchallenge #drawings #artist #draw #artistsoninstagram
#sketchbook #instaart #drawthisinyourstyle #artwork #drawingoftheday
#dailydrawing #inkdrawing #drawingsketch #artoftheday #myart
#pencildrawing #drawthisinyourstylechallenge #creativity
#creativechallenge #courbet #imagination #whatareyoulookingat #selfportrait
Padlet
To be eligible to win a prize, please post your work to Padlet.
PADLET JAN 11-16
https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/fl2cnuio5g0ocsfp
Prizes
1st Prize: $500 cash
2nd Prize: $250 SAL Gift Certificate
3rd Prize: $150 SAL Gift Certificate
Honorable Mentions: $50 SAL Gift Certificates
Artists who complete all 30 challenges will be eligible to win special prizes, but you don’t have to complete all 30 to participate, or to win a prize. Set your own creative goals for January 2021 and submit pics of your original creations on social media, and Padlet.
Alternate 30SAL Challenge
Make a 2020-2021 Comic
As a possible alternative to the #30sal challenge, you can make a comic book or graphic novel based on the year 2020, and the terrible start to 2021. This comic could have any number of sketches, from a single page to all 30, and artists can work in teams. Open to all levels. Stick figures and crayons welcome! If this interests you, “What are you looking at” could be inspiration for your sketch today.
Remember to post your work with #30sal & #seattleartistleague, and add your submissions to Padlet – a spot for Comics has been added to Padlet!
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