Saturdays are experimental days in our 30 day creative challenge. Today’s challenge has two parts. The first part is the drawing. The second, a bonus challenge, is to make a trace monotype with your drawing.
Challenge: draw your ear
Without looking (touching is ok) draw what you think your left ear looks like. If you prefer not to draw, then sculpt what you think your left ear looks like, using mashed potatoes, or origami. Do not look at any ears until you have completed your ear creation. Do not even look at this email, with an ear at the top of it. To help you not look at ears, instead of inserting another picture of an ear here to divide the sections of text, I’ll just insert some ear vocabulary.
If you’ve drawn your ear, there is no need to go further. You are done! If you are out of time, then congratulate yourself on a job well done, and scurry off to run your errands, or take a nap. If you have more time and materials, and would like to try something else today, you can make a trace monotype from your ear drawing. Here’s how:
trace monotype
How To: Trace Monotype
STEP 1: Take the drawing of your ear. We’ll call this paper (A).
STEP 2: Apply an even coat of printer’s ink or oil paint to a smooth non-absorbent surface. You can use water based paints if you can slow the dry time enough. You need the paint to be very damp. We’ll call this inky/painty surface (C).
STEP 3: Take the drawing of your ear (A), and place it over a second piece of paper. We’ll call this paper (B). Place both of the sheets of paper (A+B) onto the painted surface (C). Now you have an (A/B/C) sandwich, with your drawing visible on top. Using tools, or using your fingertips and fingernails, “draw” by pressing onto the surface to trace your drawing. Pressing will push the ink onto the reverse side of the paper, so when you lift the paper at the end of the drawing, the ink will appear on the opposite side of the places you pressed, forming a trace monotype.
SINGLE PAPER METHOD: If using two pieces of paper is too thick, or if you like living life on the edge, you can combine paper (A) and paper (B) so you are only using a single piece of paper to make your monotype (A/C).
What???
Were those instructions confusing? Did your print not work as you’d hoped? Below are two short videos showing how people draw with similar methods, so you can see the tools and materials that worked for them.
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:
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30SAL Challenge: Left Ear
Saturdays are experimental days in our 30 day creative challenge. Today’s challenge has two parts. The first part is the drawing. The second, a bonus challenge, is to make a trace monotype with your drawing.
Challenge: draw your ear
Without looking (touching is ok) draw what you think your left ear looks like. If you prefer not to draw, then sculpt what you think your left ear looks like, using mashed potatoes, or origami. Do not look at any ears until you have completed your ear creation. Do not even look at this email, with an ear at the top of it. To help you not look at ears, instead of inserting another picture of an ear here to divide the sections of text, I’ll just insert some ear vocabulary.
helix – scapha – tringular fossa – antihelix – concha – auricular lobule
If you’ve drawn your ear, there is no need to go further. You are done! If you are out of time, then congratulate yourself on a job well done, and scurry off to run your errands, or take a nap. If you have more time and materials, and would like to try something else today, you can make a trace monotype from your ear drawing. Here’s how:
How To: Trace Monotype
STEP 1: Take the drawing of your ear. We’ll call this paper (A).
STEP 2: Apply an even coat of printer’s ink or oil paint to a smooth non-absorbent surface. You can use water based paints if you can slow the dry time enough. You need the paint to be very damp. We’ll call this inky/painty surface (C).
STEP 3: Take the drawing of your ear (A), and place it over a second piece of paper. We’ll call this paper (B). Place both of the sheets of paper (A+B) onto the painted surface (C). Now you have an (A/B/C) sandwich, with your drawing visible on top. Using tools, or using your fingertips and fingernails, “draw” by pressing onto the surface to trace your drawing. Pressing will push the ink onto the reverse side of the paper, so when you lift the paper at the end of the drawing, the ink will appear on the opposite side of the places you pressed, forming a trace monotype.
SINGLE PAPER METHOD: If using two pieces of paper is too thick, or if you like living life on the edge, you can combine paper (A) and paper (B) so you are only using a single piece of paper to make your monotype (A/C).
What???
Were those instructions confusing? Did your print not work as you’d hoped? Below are two short videos showing how people draw with similar methods, so you can see the tools and materials that worked for them.
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 #ear #monotype #monoprint
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