Day 22 of our 30 day January Challenge was an optical illusion inspired by Patrick Hughes and Mrs Belzner’s class.
This is a project that requires movement to do it’s optical deceit, so to see the projects at their best, go to Instagram and look for #30sal videos posted around January 22, 23, 24. Also, take a look at the videos posted to our Padlet DAY 22: REVERSE PERSPECTIVE. These projects were much more complicated than… say… drawing a stick of butter, so THANK YOU to everyone who pushed through the glue and scissor induced tantrums to make the weirdness happen. I appreciate your efforts, and I’m sorry about the glue in your hair.
Red Cadmium Red: “Matisse was much taken with this strong new red, which has excellent stability. He recounts that he attempted, unsuccessfully, to persuade Renoir to adopt a “cadmium red” in place of the traditional cinnabar. Matisse inherited the use of intense cadmium red, a 19th century invention, from the Impressionists. The critic John Rusell …
The Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn created nearly one hundred self portraits during his 63 years of life. Roughly 40 of these self portraits were oil paintings. The rest were drawings and etchings. This was, and is, a fairly unusual number of self portraits for an artist without a smartphone. He might have made self portraits to practice rendering …
I asked Fran O’Neill from the New York Studio School to talk about her upcoming workshop “To Transcribe” and the benefits of transcribing masterworks. She offered a beautiful and inspiring response. Fran O’Neill’s 2 day workshop “To Transcribe” is coming to the Seattle Artist League October 24, 2020. Click here to learn more. “To Transcribe” …
30SAL Faves: Reverse Perspective
Day 22 of our 30 day January Challenge was an optical illusion inspired by Patrick Hughes and Mrs Belzner’s class.
This is a project that requires movement to do it’s optical deceit, so to see the projects at their best, go to Instagram and look for #30sal videos posted around January 22, 23, 24. Also, take a look at the videos posted to our Padlet DAY 22: REVERSE PERSPECTIVE. These projects were much more complicated than… say… drawing a stick of butter, so THANK YOU to everyone who pushed through the glue and scissor induced tantrums to make the weirdness happen. I appreciate your efforts, and I’m sorry about the glue in your hair.
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