This is day 8 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today’s challenge is to study a jacket. Choose one aspect to focus on. For example, look at it for lines, shape, geometry, volume, or light and shadow. Don’t try to do all of them at the same time! Just pick one aspect. Realism need not be approached.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #jacketstudy
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
Take a look at these shirt and jacket studies by Richard Diebenkorn. The first two study line, the third studies volume. A realistic light and shadow is in the fourth. Look at the geometry in the last two!
Day 26 of our 30 Day January Challenge was Mashup! Mix and match figures with an interior from historical artworks. The sketches and collages were so inspired, mixing art history with fresh ideas, that I think we should host a Mashup class for drawing and painting at the school soon!
“Sketchbooks are a place for experimentation, self reflection, technical practice, and developing an artistic identity,” says Keith Pfeiffer, official sketchbook class instructor. (To be cheeky, we called it Advanced Doodling.) I asked Keith what his favorite sketchbook was. Here is what he said: “My favorite sketchbook is Moleskine sketchbook 9×12. The paper is smooth enough for clean …
Today’s post is from special guest star Anne Walker. Anne majored in Fine Arts with a focus in painting at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT in 1989. She started taking classes at the League a couple of years ago. I met her in Fran’s Giant Figures workshop in February 2020 (shortly before our classes went online). …
A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures. As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as …
Day 8: Jacket Study #30SAL
This is day 8 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today’s challenge is to study a jacket. Choose one aspect to focus on. For example, look at it for lines, shape, geometry, volume, or light and shadow. Don’t try to do all of them at the same time! Just pick one aspect. Realism need not be approached.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #jacketstudy
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
Take a look at these shirt and jacket studies by Richard Diebenkorn. The first two study line, the third studies volume. A realistic light and shadow is in the fourth. Look at the geometry in the last two!
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