Welcome a sweet selection of creations from our January 30SAL Creative Challenge. There have been over 1,000 posts on Instagram this January already! Pics in this post are selected from the following challenges:
Day 2: Walk the Line
Day 3: Daringly Diagonal
Day 4: A day in the life of a ___.
Day 2: Walk the Line
This challenge tripped a lot of people up. The instructions were to tone your paper dark, then erase “to leave dark lines.” What I was looking for was interesting dark lines, with erased space surrounding them. Only a few artists met the challenge as written. Well done, teacher’s pets!
The rest of you used a slightly different drawing style, but you made great work. Here is a small selection of beautiful chiaroscuro artworks, using the “lift up” technique with charcoal and eraser or similar materials.
Diagonals comes up a lot when I teach figure drawing, portraits, and general composition for anything at all. I believe we have a safety part in our brain that feels better when lines are level (vertical or horizontal, not diagonal). The destabilizing tilts and angles take a lot more effort for us to draw, so it’s no big surprise that the most daringly diagonal drawings involved some drama!
The Migration Series In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty paintings about the Great Migration, the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Lawrence’s work is a landmark in the history of modern art and a key example of the way that …
Frohsin is another painter on the list of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. He had talked about wanting to develop his work into more flat color fields, a move towards the abstract. These paintings by Frohsin and others are his inspirations. I liked these abstracted figures so much I did some research and found more of …
An atelier is a snobby word for an artist’s workshop space. The word studio is from the Italian: studio, and from Latin: studium, from studere, meaning to study or zeal. The word atelier is French for workshop, especially the workroom or studio of a sculptor or painter, 1840, from French atelier, going back to the Old French astelier which was a carpenter’s workshop, woodpile …
#30SAL faves days 2, 3, 4
Welcome a sweet selection of creations from our January 30SAL Creative Challenge. There have been over 1,000 posts on Instagram this January already! Pics in this post are selected from the following challenges:
Day 2: Walk the Line
Day 3: Daringly Diagonal
Day 4: A day in the life of a ___.
Day 2: Walk the Line
This challenge tripped a lot of people up. The instructions were to tone your paper dark, then erase “to leave dark lines.” What I was looking for was interesting dark lines, with erased space surrounding them. Only a few artists met the challenge as written. Well done, teacher’s pets!
The rest of you used a slightly different drawing style, but you made great work. Here is a small selection of beautiful chiaroscuro artworks, using the “lift up” technique with charcoal and eraser or similar materials.
rufus_the_cocker_spaniel_puppy
Day 3: Daringly Diagonal
Diagonals comes up a lot when I teach figure drawing, portraits, and general composition for anything at all. I believe we have a safety part in our brain that feels better when lines are level (vertical or horizontal, not diagonal). The destabilizing tilts and angles take a lot more effort for us to draw, so it’s no big surprise that the most daringly diagonal drawings involved some drama!
These weren’t exactly daring diagonals, but I thought they were very nicely drawn diagonals.
tegan.why
Day 4: A day in the life of a ____.
Sometimes I think you guys are just looking for any excuse to draw your pets.
hollyglaser
breannah_cc
jenniferbarnett222
rufus_the_cocker_spaniel_puppy
m.okumajohnston
Sometimes I think you guys are just looking for any excuse to get weird.
teepee_art
wobblefincharts
sf.pinups
How very clever of you….
There are over 1,000 responses to #30SAL 2022 on Instagram. My apologies if I missed yours. Please keep posting! This is fabulous!
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The Migration Series In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty paintings about the Great Migration, the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Lawrence’s work is a landmark in the history of modern art and a key example of the way that …
Kim Frohsin
Frohsin is another painter on the list of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. He had talked about wanting to develop his work into more flat color fields, a move towards the abstract. These paintings by Frohsin and others are his inspirations. I liked these abstracted figures so much I did some research and found more of …
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30SAL Challenge: Atelier
An atelier is a snobby word for an artist’s workshop space. The word studio is from the Italian: studio, and from Latin: studium, from studere, meaning to study or zeal. The word atelier is French for workshop, especially the workroom or studio of a sculptor or painter, 1840, from French atelier, going back to the Old French astelier which was a carpenter’s workshop, woodpile …