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
Max Ernst used texture rubbings to overcome his fear of the white canvas, and ignite his imagination. “Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.” Max Ernst, 1891-1976 The embedded video preview does not appear to be working, so please click …
Peter Laurent de Francia 1921 – 19 2012) was an Italian British artist. Influenced by nineteenth-century socialist painters such as Gustave Courbet and Honoré Daumier, as well as by socially committed artists of his time such as Renato Guttuso and Pablo Picasso, de Francia created artworks with a drive for social change. Peter de Francia wrote about the work of artist Fernand …
DRAWING FROM OBSERVATION I like to draw from observation. I like to study what I see, and experiment with how I see it. My goal is not realism, my goal is to find and discover. Every time I look at something, even something I’ve drawn before, I see things I didn’t see before, things I …
‘Let it be felt that the painter was there; consciously looking at the objects in their light already conceived from the beginning.’Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) Pierre Bonnard drew obsessively, on his daily walks in the country before breakfast, at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner, loafing around the house and garden, in cafés, in the streets, out of …
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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