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!
I used to think drawing was something I had to learn so that I could to get to painting. Lately I’ve grown to enjoy drawing for its own expressive abilities. Drawing is a spontaneous and immediate art. It is a direct record of the movement of the artist’s hand, a record of movement in time. …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10498″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Martha Soriano Here are some figure paintings from our recent Friday night session. We played with light and shadow colors, and simplification of forms. It’s incredibly enjoyable to hang out with people and make stuff. I think I might have the best job in the world. Friday night, I hang …
The most recent V. Notes post had some personal favorites from the many Seattle Artist League Portrait Awards submissions we received. One of the artworks featured yesterday piqued my interest, so I contacted the artist, and raided his website and Instagram for images. Akira Ohiso recently moved to Seattle from New York. He paints …
#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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