Day 25 of our 30 Day January Challenge was to make instructions that no one will ever need. Apparently, when artists are outlining useless instructions they are at their very best. The last one is my personal favorite, but there were so many great drawings to post, the last one is a long, long, long way down. Use the scroll feature on your device….
detail of series – the rest can be found @karldyerart
@annrodak
How to do headache, by @courtney.wooten
@christianpincock
@trishwallisstone
@janeen_anderson
Martha Campo
@barbdunshee
@gretamusland
@wobblefincharts
@tawmsart
Kate Davis
S. Enriquez
@squirrelflower
@lyallwart
Dom Juleon
Wendy Lumsdaine
@zeitounissima
Roz Avent
Camille Ireland
A Napkin Dryer, by Pamela Freeman and Leonardo da Vinci
Hummingbird Shower (detail). The rest can be found @kpaul1216
Ellen CraftHow to make Ice Tea without Ice. Step 1. Make tea. Step 2, start drawing. Repeat for rest of the day. Anne WalkerHow to Unpack a Lunch, by Kathryn Walton-Elliott
detail of series – the rest can be found @tselisjax
ABOVE: This one was educational. Did you know that about “Eye of Newt”?!?
BELOW: This was posted as a “how to” instructional, but I believe it is actually a transcription of Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne walking their cheetahs, and a very good transcription it is. Nailed it.
I should title this post “The Least Macabre Paintings I Could Find by the Artist Nicola Samori.” I love his figurative works: the simplified compositions, the suggestions of movement and time, his paint application style, texture, articulation and decay – even his color palette, though admittedly it’s on the darker of the very dark Italian tastes. …
Chuck Close has an almost photographic memory for things that are flat, but for 3 dimensional things that move around – things like faces – he is effectively blind. His work is built around his talent, and his disability. Through the detailed grids, Close can learn about the faces of people he cares about and commit them …
Do you send out a handmade holiday card this year? It’s a lot for an artist to keep up with, hand making each gift and greeting. Printmakers seem well suited for this time of year. Painters, not so much. Sending an original work of art to everyone on my list seems impossible, but an inability …
UNDERESTIMATING THE TRANSLATION. When I look at a painting made by observation I can’t help but assume that the artist painted what they saw in front of them, more or less. If their marks are colorful angled palette knife shapes as they are in Tina Kraft’s plein air painting above, I assume they pulled the …
30SAL Faves: How to Do Everything
Day 25 of our 30 Day January Challenge was to make instructions that no one will ever need. Apparently, when artists are outlining useless instructions they are at their very best. The last one is my personal favorite, but there were so many great drawings to post, the last one is a long, long, long way down. Use the scroll feature on your device….
@trishwallisstone
Anne Walker
ABOVE: This one was educational. Did you know that about “Eye of Newt”?!?
BELOW: This was posted as a “how to” instructional, but I believe it is actually a transcription of Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne walking their cheetahs, and a very good transcription it is. Nailed it.
LAST ONE:
So much helpfulness.
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UNDERESTIMATING THE TRANSLATION. When I look at a painting made by observation I can’t help but assume that the artist painted what they saw in front of them, more or less. If their marks are colorful angled palette knife shapes as they are in Tina Kraft’s plein air painting above, I assume they pulled the …