This is our last post in our list of Faves from the 30 Day Challenge. We received hundreds of creations throughout the month.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED!
The next 30SAL post will include prizes and awards for our tip pics, and special recognition for the artists who completed all 30.
Below are some of our favorites from the last few days….
Dynamic vs Static Composition
This turned out to be a horse race.
Mimi Boothby
Elizabeth Mitchell
Disembodied thirsty arms, they got to me.
Emma Nadolny
Sol LeWitt #328
Hooglin Lili
Maura O’Neill (TP + phone = resourceful)
Delores Haugland (again, resourceful)
Well, this is where I live…
Entries for this were in two categories: a densely cluttered space, and everything else.
Delores Haugland
Luzi
Camille Ireland
Gil Mendez
Karen Bell
Tress Connolly
Karl Dyer
S Enriquez
Novel View
This idea for a creative challenge was posted by Karen Bell: Capture a spot in your home you’ve looked at a thousand times but see it anew from an unusual vantage point.
Karl Dyer
Comic
As an alternative to the creative challenge posted every day, there was an open invitation to create a comic about 2020, but then 2020 leaked into 2021, and there wasn’t much energy for it. We did have one post, though, from Cheryl Chudyk. This is from January 30, after a string of bad police incidents in the news. The second panel is referring to an incident locally, in which a Tacoma police officer drove his car through a crowd of people. It was a tough month, and a tough year.
Cheryl Chudyk
Thank you again to everyone who contributed artwork this January. It was a lot of fun to see what you all came up with! Our next 30SAL Challenge post will award prizes to the top contributions of the month.
[image_with_animation image_url=”8601″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Qi Baishi (1864–1957) was one of the most beloved contemporary Chinese watercolor painters. His original name is Huang but he went by Baishi (“white stone”) as a pseudonym. Some of Qi’s major influences include the Ming dynasty artist Xu Wei (徐渭) and the early Qing dynasty painter Zhu Da (朱耷). His favorite …
In the last post called Yogurt Holds the Blueberry, I talked about thinking of everything in a composition as an active shape, painting the spaces between things, instead of painting an object floating on nothing. If we are painting the space between things, we start to see the “background” as an active shape on the …
Excerpt from Mitchell Albala’s Book: Simplification and Massing The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hoffman At a recent workshop, several students pointed to a cottonwood tree that was gently swaying in the breeze. “How are we going to paint all those leaves?” they asked. …
Richard Diebenkorn Diebenkorn was an American painter. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His later work were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim. Wikipedia Born: April 22, 1922, Portland, OR Died: March 30, 1993, Berkeley, CA Artwork: Cityscape I, Ocean Park #54, …
30SAL Faves: Week 4, Part 2
This is our last post in our list of Faves from the 30 Day Challenge. We received hundreds of creations throughout the month.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED!
The next 30SAL post will include prizes and awards for our tip pics, and special recognition for the artists who completed all 30.
Below are some of our favorites from the last few days….
Dynamic vs Static Composition
This turned out to be a horse race.
Disembodied thirsty arms, they got to me.
Sol LeWitt #328
(TP + phone = resourceful)
(again, resourceful)
Well, this is where I live…
Entries for this were in two categories: a densely cluttered space, and everything else.
Novel View
This idea for a creative challenge was posted by Karen Bell: Capture a spot in your home you’ve looked at a thousand times but see it anew from an unusual vantage point.
Comic
As an alternative to the creative challenge posted every day, there was an open invitation to create a comic about 2020, but then 2020 leaked into 2021, and there wasn’t much energy for it. We did have one post, though, from Cheryl Chudyk. This is from January 30, after a string of bad police incidents in the news. The second panel is referring to an incident locally, in which a Tacoma police officer drove his car through a crowd of people. It was a tough month, and a tough year.
Thank you again to everyone who contributed artwork this January. It was a lot of fun to see what you all came up with! Our next 30SAL Challenge post will award prizes to the top contributions of the month.
Coming soon: Portrait Award winners!
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Mitchell Albala: Simplification and Massing
Excerpt from Mitchell Albala’s Book: Simplification and Massing The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hoffman At a recent workshop, several students pointed to a cottonwood tree that was gently swaying in the breeze. “How are we going to paint all those leaves?” they asked. …
My Personal Thoughts on Diebenkorn
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