Limestone relief of a youth, from a funerary building, ca. 300 B.C. Greek, South Italian, Tarentine, Late Classical, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Once we miss a few in a row, many of us find it more difficult to pick a goal back up again. If this is you, don’t worry about anything you missed in the past, and don’t worry about what you might not be able to do in the future. See if you can doodle around for a few minutes today. Set a timer for 5 minutes and see what happens.
Today’s SEE & RESPOND Challenge:
Finish the sculpture. #naiskosfragment
Media is always artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, assemblage, or play with your food.
Post it
To be eligible for prizes (yes prizes!) at the end of the month, post your work to Instagram with #30sal and #naiskosfragment so we can find your post.
To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these to your post:
WTF The quote from Gerhard Richter about looking for boring and irrelevant photo materials is from the upcoming lecture on Portraiture After Photography – part of our ongoing WTF Art History Lecture series with Suzanne Walker (BA, MA, PhD, BFD). These lectures are one of a kind, and not recorded. Don’t miss Suzanne Walker’s latest spitfire! …
As a young child, Pippin attended a segregated one-room school in Goshen, New York. When he was ten years old, he answered a magazine advertisement and received a box of crayon pencils, paint, and two brushes. At age 15 Pippin left school to care for his ailing mother. She died when he was 23, and …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9047″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Eleanora Duse When looking at John Singer Sargent’s “effortless” portraits, I often wonder how long he actually spent on each. He wanted the painting to look fresh, with an economy of brush strokes, so a painting that looks like it was done in one …
I’m currently reading the The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. I wouldn’t wish the book or the subject on anyone, were it not imperative. In Seattle, the temperature typically varies from 37°F to 79°F, and right now we’re setting unpresidented records for heat, day after day, so it’s seeming especially imperative today. “In Seattle, where …
Day 19: Naiskos Fragment #30SAL
Greek, South Italian, Tarentine, Late Classical, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Once we miss a few in a row, many of us find it more difficult to pick a goal back up again. If this is you, don’t worry about anything you missed in the past, and don’t worry about what you might not be able to do in the future. See if you can doodle around for a few minutes today. Set a timer for 5 minutes and see what happens.
Today’s SEE & RESPOND Challenge:
Finish the sculpture. #naiskosfragment
Media is always artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, assemblage, or play with your food.
Post it
To be eligible for prizes (yes prizes!) at the end of the month, post your work to Instagram with #30sal and #naiskosfragment so we can find your post.
To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these to your post:
#30sal #naiskosfragment #vnotes #creativechallenge #januarychallenge #drawingchallenge #drawing #art #sketch #artchallenge #artist #draw #artistsoninstagram #sketchbook #instaart #artwork #drawingoftheday #dailydrawing #oilpainting #mixedmedia #drawingsketch #artoftheday #creativity
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DAY 19: NAISKOS FRAGMENT https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/eq3phbkw9qenhfhh
DAY 18: EVOLVE https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/v8t02cjj85i2ivez
DAY 17: CIRCLES AND STRAIGHTS https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/w5s480x0331k8utl
Deadline for Prizes
Deadline for submissions: 3 days after each challenge post.
January prize winners will be announced in February.
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