This was the final challenge – the 30th Challenge for 30 Challenges in January! The final prompt was to create an asymmetrical portrait. This suggestion was designed to push a portrait drawing – something that can frequently cause us to tense up trying to get things perfect – into something more bold, individual, compositionally dynamic, and artistically expressive. These portraits exemplify those goals, with a wide array of personality in both the faces and the marks that render them.
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This post is from Barry Berridge, a returning student who is currently in my beginning drawing class. Advice from a beginning drawing student I wanted to share an observational drawing habit I started this month that might also help other beginners: There’s a coffee shop super close to my apartment with lots of cool plants …
Hopper is known for his oil paintings, but he also made etchings… Hopper was not initially successful as an artist, so he made ends meet with freelance illustration work… Frank Rehn gave Hopper his first solo show in 1924. Hopper was 42. The Seattle Art Museum expected to receive Chop Suey after the death of …
Ingrid Calame is an American artist based in Los Angeles, known for her abstract, map-like paintings inspired by human detritus. Calame’s works come from a painstaking process of recording cracks and stains from the physical environment. She first began tracing the shapes, textures and stains on pavements, cultural and industrial sites, reconstructing the places that …
LAST DAY of 30SAL Faves: Asymmetrical Portrait
This was the final challenge – the 30th Challenge for 30 Challenges in January! The final prompt was to create an asymmetrical portrait. This suggestion was designed to push a portrait drawing – something that can frequently cause us to tense up trying to get things perfect – into something more bold, individual, compositionally dynamic, and artistically expressive. These portraits exemplify those goals, with a wide array of personality in both the faces and the marks that render them.
asymmetrical wealth, sleeping on light rail
Next up: Awards for the 30SAL Challenge!
Did you do all 30? Did you meet your own personal creative goals? Post your achievements here and show us where we can find your artworks!
What were your favorites? Did you see artwork or efforts that you want us to recognize? Let us know!
Your posts and comments on our blog will be appreciated, but they will not show up until approved, so please allow for some delay while we check to be sure that you are not a Russian Bot. Seriously. It’s not automatic. We actually go to a place and click a button to approve your comments. So post a comment, then go walk your dog.
Prizes are on the way!
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