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
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!
Charity Lynn Baker is an artist living and working in New York. She’s been drawing a lot lately. Her dream-like narrative scenes sometimes remind me of Marc Chagall’s, only Charity’s are more grounded. Formally trained in architecture, when asked about her compositions, she remarked that she likes humans and she likes geometry. Her drawings are …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11061″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Ruthie V, Doorzien, after Carlos San Millan. 36×24″ oil on linen Last Saturday, while the steamroller printmaking party was happening on the street, inside the studio we had a show of works inspired by doorzien, a Dutch word that when applied to the genre of painting, means to see through from …
“No one did more to reanimate the tired old genre of still life painting in the last half century than did Mr Thiebaud with his paintings of industrially regimented food products.” (NYT, 2004) In 2000, Thiebaud told PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that the subject of food was “fun and humorous, and that’s dangerous in …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10288″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] We’ve made it to the end of our 30 Day Creative Challenge! There have been a lot of inspiring artworks posted on Facebook and Instagram. I’ve enjoyed making these, and seeing what is posted. For our last project, choose a SAL Challenge post someone else made, and make an …
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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