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 got this idea from Makena Gadient at the recent CoCA 24 hour Art Marathon. This is an excellent design study. Take a stack of cards. Using a big sewing needle, poke random holes into the stack of cards so they all have the same pattern of holes. Then, using the same holes, create a …
My email inbox has been slow lately. Everyone must be getting ready for the holiday. There is a pile of Christmas presents that need to get wrapped. They’re blocking the door of my apartment, and spilling into the recycling bin. It’s a delightful mess, all the little contained and uncontainable bits. I said goodbye to …
What happens when paper is treated as a raw material, instead of a flat white rectangle? The photograph to the left is one that’s been circulating on the internet lately. This is what happens when wasps are given colored construction paper. The paper is used as fibers and pulp, not ready for pencil lines to represent an …
Yesterday I talked about how Carlos San Millan paints the effect of light so beautifully, and posted work by a painter he recommended: Emil Joseph Robinson. Today I’d like to make some points about one of his paintings, and how he has applied ideas of contrast to paint the effects of light. Take a look …
#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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