Laocoon and His Sons / Drawing by Alberto Giacometti
Today’s OBSERVATIONAL Challenge: Make a quick gesture drawing from observation without lifting your drawing utensil. Instead of moving around the outline, let your line wonder across the surface of the form. Think about how to translate 3 dimensional form to a flat piece of paper.
Post your work
To be eligible for prizes, (yes prizes!) at the end of the month, post your work to Instagram with #30sal. Deadline for posting: 3 days after each post. January prize winners will be announced in February. Post to Instagram with #30SAL so we can find it. To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these to your post:
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”9446″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]For the past couple quarters I’ve been teaching beginning figure drawing shorties. “Shorties” are Seattle Artist League shortened classes – shorter by hours, by weeks, or both. These are run like cardio exercise classes, …
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Lendy is on a little trip in Maine, so I asked her to send me art. She sent me some text messages from the museum: Ashley Bryan. He is heroic. (…) It’s not just the wretched tale of slavery. …
A sneak preview of artworks for my upcoming show I’m in the middle of the first series of artworks I’ve made since starting the League in 2016. In addition to several pretty paintings, I think I might be approaching 20 different (and pretty) drypoint images for Some Pretty Paintings, my solo show at Smith & …
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”11428″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]From previous V.Note: “Though I thought I should give it a try, I really thought I wouldn’t like drypoint because every time I heard the word “drypoint” I heard nails on a chalkboard, and …
Day 9: Scribble Line #30SAL
Today’s OBSERVATIONAL Challenge: Make a quick gesture drawing from observation without lifting your drawing utensil. Instead of moving around the outline, let your line wonder across the surface of the form. Think about how to translate 3 dimensional form to a flat piece of paper.
Post your work
To be eligible for prizes, (yes prizes!) at the end of the month, post your work to Instagram with #30sal. Deadline for posting: 3 days after each post. January prize winners will be announced in February. Post to Instagram with #30SAL so we can find it. To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these to your post:
#30sal #scribble #continuousline #vnotes #creativechallenge #januarychallenge #drawingchallenge #drawing #art #sketch #artchallenge #artist #draw #artistsoninstagram #sketchbook #instaart #artwork #drawingoftheday #dailydrawing #inkdrawing #drawingsketch #artoftheday #creativity
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DAY 9: SCRIBBLE LINE https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/lifuyhrc8f29lvb7
Day 8: REVERSE COLLAGE https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/3x0xmb9ehndzxwra
DAY 7: LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/wcmyiwn729iatud9
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