This is day 5 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today’s challenge is to create something inspired by the word cacoethes. Media is artist’s choice. Can be pencil, digital collage, or assemblage live alligators.
Cacoethesnoun: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable. (kak-oh/uh-WEE-theez)
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #cacoethes
Pathways are directional marks and shapes for our eyes to follow across a 2 dimensional artwork. They are a powerful compositional tool to keep the viewer’s eyes engaged and moving around a composition. They’re also great for artists to practice, because they emphasize that if we’re to think compositionally, each part must play a role …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11190″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Sun Days was a collection of four paintings started by Anne McGurk. I added to the collection, so here now is 20. Ha. I had hoped to also add a poem, but after reading about suns and moons and how womens’ eyes and bosoms sparkle, or nature this and birdies that, …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! People sometimes ask me what painters I like, what paintings I’m inspired by. The paintings tend to be figurative, and lately, they tend to be sexy. Sometimes I choose them for what happens in the paint, sometimes I choose them for what happens with the subject. Often there is a personality in …
Day 5: Cacoethes #30SAL
This is day 5 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today’s challenge is to create something inspired by the word cacoethes. Media is artist’s choice. Can be pencil, digital collage, or assemblage live alligators.
Cacoethes noun: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable. (kak-oh/uh-WEE-theez)
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #cacoethes
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
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[image_with_animation image_url=”11190″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Sun Days was a collection of four paintings started by Anne McGurk. I added to the collection, so here now is 20. Ha. I had hoped to also add a poem, but after reading about suns and moons and how womens’ eyes and bosoms sparkle, or nature this and birdies that, …
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Take a class with SAL – anywhere! People sometimes ask me what painters I like, what paintings I’m inspired by. The paintings tend to be figurative, and lately, they tend to be sexy. Sometimes I choose them for what happens in the paint, sometimes I choose them for what happens with the subject. Often there is a personality in …