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:
[image_with_animation image_url=”8922″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] ARTWORK PICKUP AT GALVANIZE Saturday April 7 10:00am – 12:00pm <– If you can do this it would make less work for us! ARTWORK PICKUP AT THE LEAGUE Thursday April 12 9:30-2:00, 5:30-10:00 Sunday April 15 6:00-6:25 Monday April 16 9:30-2:00, 5:30-10:00 Tuesday April 17 9:30-2:00 Any …
Today’s Challenge: Mix and match figures with an interior from historical artworks. Materials are artist’s choice. #mashup References You can find your own references, or find something in these suggestions: Figures: Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii, Nicolas Poussin, Mughal Indian Miniatures Interiors: Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper Post it To be eligible for prizes …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9488″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the third part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing. Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every …
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. UIVIGAR Derived from an old Scandinavian word …
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
Padlet
Don’t have Instagram? You can post your work to Padlet. You don’t need a Padlet account – but remember to add your name to your picture.
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
Don’t Delay!
Deadline for submissions: 3 days after each challenge post. January prize winners will be announced in February.
To learn more about the 30SAL Challenge, click here.
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