Here it is, we have arrived at the end of this nearly unending 30 Day Challenge. You’ve all been good creative sports about the hardship – I could almost believe some of you enjoyed it. In the next few days I’ll start posting my favorites, and then I’ll post the winners of the prizes after faves, but first: we have one more day to create something where there was nothing, color where there was grey, line where there was unbounded opportunity. Artists, we have one more challenge to go!
Alice Neel learned from her teacher that people have one eye that is dominant, and after that she painted portraits with one side in strength – not just the eyes, but the hands as well. We all walk around with two nearly identical hands, pretending it’s not weird that one works and one doesn’t. Today let’s emphasize our weird and wobbly unbalanced halves.
Day 30: Create an asymmetrical portrait. Media is artist’s choice. #asymmetricalportrait
Drawings by Alice Neel
All drawings by Alice Neel
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I’ve been talking about how to use hands as expressive elements within a drawing. I love this idea so much, both for technical practice and for powerful personal expression, that I made a class to study expressive hands and heads, and I started collecting examples. Some I collected because I appreciated the rendering. Some I collected because the artist …
The chicken paintings featured in this V-Note are by Endre Penovác. The chicken letter that follows was written in 1870, sent to the Poultry Society. The title proclaims it’s a manual about how to raise fine poultry. The content, however, renders itself informational for how to steal birds from your neighbor (or yourself, if you’re an idiot). It was signed by …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9597″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] For this unfinished painting, the artist did not die. The sitter did. [image_with_animation image_url=”9598″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] In 1945, Elizabeth Shoumatoff was commissioned to paint a portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. At noon on April 12, Shaumatoff began her work. That afternoon Roosevelt said, “I have a terrific …
Yesterday’s Tucket was listed as the last day, but there is one more: 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 …
DAY 30: Asymmetrical Portrait #30SAL
Here it is, we have arrived at the end of this nearly unending 30 Day Challenge. You’ve all been good creative sports about the hardship – I could almost believe some of you enjoyed it. In the next few days I’ll start posting my favorites, and then I’ll post the winners of the prizes after faves, but first: we have one more day to create something where there was nothing, color where there was grey, line where there was unbounded opportunity. Artists, we have one more challenge to go!
Alice Neel learned from her teacher that people have one eye that is dominant, and after that she painted portraits with one side in strength – not just the eyes, but the hands as well. We all walk around with two nearly identical hands, pretending it’s not weird that one works and one doesn’t. Today let’s emphasize our weird and wobbly unbalanced halves.
Day 30: Create an asymmetrical portrait. Media is artist’s choice. #asymmetricalportrait
Drawings by Alice Neel
Post it
To be eligible for prizes (yes prizes!) at the end of the month, post your work to Instagram with #30sal and #asymmetricalportrait so we can find your post.
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#30sal #aliceneel #asymmetricalportrait #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 30: ASYMMETRICAL PORTRAIT https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/kk2ef834n1ttdcvb
DAY 29: MOVIE/TV SCENE https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/w89rrm0bhthmxjn9
DAY 28: INDIAN MINIATURE https://seattleartistleague.padlet.org/SAL/y024pcy2kez4jyly
Deadline for Prizes
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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