This is day 9 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Draw an aerial view of your living area or studio space, wherever you spend the most time, as if it was an abstract composition. If people and pets are moving through the space then include them too, but don’t make them recognizable as people or pets. Focus on making the largest variety of marks and layered surfaces that you can.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #livingroomabstract
[image_with_animation image_url=”9505″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the fifth part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing. Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every …
A Kolinsky is a member of the Siberian weasel family with tail hairs that are nice for brushes. The casual word used for Kolinsky is sable. There are actually several natural sources for “sable”, and Kolinsky is one of them. This is what a Kolinsky looks like. Isn’t he cute? Sable brushes used to be the highest quality brushes for …
Pierre Bonnard was an avid sketcher, filling countless sketchbooks and scraps of paper with drawings he would later peruse for painting inspiration when in his studio. From a previous V. Note: Bonnard did not paint from direct observation. He said he felt ‘weak in front of nature. …The presence of the object, the motif, is …
This is a “See and Respond” day in our 30 Day Challenge, and I’ve been waiting a month for this. A month ago, John Oliver on Last Week Tonight shared some drawings from people just like you, imagining what the Pringles man looks like from the neck down. I would like to add to this …
Day 9: Living Room Abstract #30SAL
This is day 9 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Draw an aerial view of your living area or studio space, wherever you spend the most time, as if it was an abstract composition. If people and pets are moving through the space then include them too, but don’t make them recognizable as people or pets. Focus on making the largest variety of marks and layered surfaces that you can.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #livingroomabstract
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
Related Posts
Beginner’s Drawings That’ll Knock Your Socks Off (Part 5)
[image_with_animation image_url=”9505″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the fifth part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing. Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every …
The Making of an Escoda Brush
A Kolinsky is a member of the Siberian weasel family with tail hairs that are nice for brushes. The casual word used for Kolinsky is sable. There are actually several natural sources for “sable”, and Kolinsky is one of them. This is what a Kolinsky looks like. Isn’t he cute? Sable brushes used to be the highest quality brushes for …
Bonnard’s Landscape Sketches
Pierre Bonnard was an avid sketcher, filling countless sketchbooks and scraps of paper with drawings he would later peruse for painting inspiration when in his studio. From a previous V. Note: Bonnard did not paint from direct observation. He said he felt ‘weak in front of nature. …The presence of the object, the motif, is …
30SAL Challenge: Pringles
This is a “See and Respond” day in our 30 Day Challenge, and I’ve been waiting a month for this. A month ago, John Oliver on Last Week Tonight shared some drawings from people just like you, imagining what the Pringles man looks like from the neck down. I would like to add to this …