(Itcho Hanabusa, Blind monks examining an elephant, 1888)
Sundays are observational drawing day in our 30 day creative challenge. We’re almost done with the month!
David Lagesse
Seeing things from various points of view is a great way to feed yourself ideas, challenge what you think you know, and surprise yourself with something new. Think of the Indian story about the six blind monks who described an elephant by saying it is a wall, a spear, a snake, a tree, a fan, and a rope. How are we to know about an object when we only see it from one point of view? We know that changing our view enriches our understanding as well as our creativity, and yet when we go to draw, we still tend to gravitate to the norms:
Today, sketch the same object or scene from five different points of view. Find the most unusual views you can.
Andy Warhol, Five Views of an Onion
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:
[image_with_animation image_url=”7883″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is a line. Today, respond to the scribble (above) to make a drawing. You can print it out, trace it, or redraw it. Share your drawings to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge) The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
[image_with_animation image_url=”8549″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Several years ago I took a few Chinese Ink painting classes from Kiki MacInnis and Bang Jin Sun at Pratt. I learned about several styles of traditional and contemporary ink painting, none of which I can remember well enough to name at the moment (sound of shuffling through old …
Christians often depict Jesus as coming into their own culture, in their present time. The Italians, whose visual language was predominant during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, featured an Italian Jesus in Renaissance times, and they did it so often and so well that when you think “Nativity,” you probably think of the church art …
Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene …
30SAL Challenge: 5 Views
Sundays are observational drawing day in our 30 day creative challenge. We’re almost done with the month!
Seeing things from various points of view is a great way to feed yourself ideas, challenge what you think you know, and surprise yourself with something new. Think of the Indian story about the six blind monks who described an elephant by saying it is a wall, a spear, a snake, a tree, a fan, and a rope. How are we to know about an object when we only see it from one point of view? We know that changing our view enriches our understanding as well as our creativity, and yet when we go to draw, we still tend to gravitate to the norms:
Today, sketch the same object or scene from five different points of view. Find the most unusual views you can.
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 #pointofview #stilllife
Padlet
Please post your work to Padlet so that we can admire your work, and award you nifty prizes. I’ll be sending out more favorites this weekend!
PADLET JAN 23-30
https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/snvqpkkjjv3dsuo2
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Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene …