A selection from Keith Pfeiffer’s Tiny Paintings Class
Another word for Tiny Paintings is Thumbnails. Thumbnail sketches are often used to test out ideas, and making adjustments before launching into a big project. These itty bitty paintings are a series of low pressure color and composition experiments.
This is one in a series of posts showcasing a selection of artwork made by League artists during the last year in quarantine. These artwork pics are borrowed from our online class archives. Instead of viewing these as finished artworks, we hope you will appreciate the excitement of these experimental works in process.
With strong artistic similarities to Alice Neel in figurative portraiture, Aliza Nisenbaum’s large scale angled figures lead the eye across the composition, and her sharp colors stay fresh, not overworked. Like Neel, Nisenbaum paints small areas of contrasting colors of yellow and purple, pink and green, next to each other to show the variety …
Yesterday I said our farthest artist in the 30SAL Challenge might be Jennifer Econopouly in Bali. Then I received this note from Rachel Stockley: “I think you’ll find New Zealand at 11,613 trumps Bali for distance participation!” According to Google, it is 8,134 miles to Bali and 7,216 miles to New Zealand, so Jennifer is still …
Dred Scott Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. In what is perhaps the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of …
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. TITTYNOPE n. – a small quantity of …
Itty Bitty Paintings; Online Anniversary Show Continues
A selection from Keith Pfeiffer’s Tiny Paintings Class
Another word for Tiny Paintings is Thumbnails. Thumbnail sketches are often used to test out ideas, and making adjustments before launching into a big project. These itty bitty paintings are a series of low pressure color and composition experiments.
This is one in a series of posts showcasing a selection of artwork made by League artists during the last year in quarantine. These artwork pics are borrowed from our online class archives. Instead of viewing these as finished artworks, we hope you will appreciate the excitement of these experimental works in process.
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Yesterday I said our farthest artist in the 30SAL Challenge might be Jennifer Econopouly in Bali. Then I received this note from Rachel Stockley: “I think you’ll find New Zealand at 11,613 trumps Bali for distance participation!” According to Google, it is 8,134 miles to Bali and 7,216 miles to New Zealand, so Jennifer is still …
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