This is day 13 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today we have transcription challenge. Make something inspired by Caravaggio’s The Cardsharps (1594).
What’s a transcription? In art, to transcribe is to copy or record information in a different form than the original. To transcribe a painting or drawing is not to copy the artwork exactly, but instead to record observations in a different form. A transcription also doesn’t need to copy everything in an original. An artist can choose to pull selected aspects of information here and there from within an artwork. An artist can choose to transcribe a color palette, size relationships, or an idea from an original. For many artists, the goal is not a perfect and complete copy of an artwork, but instead to use the artwork as a jumping off point to further their own work.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #cardsharps
I chose the clip above for Kerry James Marshall’s thoughts about how identifying as a Black artist is not a real choice, because only white artists are not burdened by the problems of race. Then the paintings of Black artists in the ‘Being an Artist” video (above) led me to seek out more of Marshall’s …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11565″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Her work looks to me like a modern Morandi. The composition is static, the colors are either quiet or repetitive and controlled, the objects are worn and common. The minimalist arrangements present the objects as flat abstracted forms. Notice the soft edges and surface detail. This painting is sitting …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Colors are shifty buggers. The way we process visual information causes colors to change in relationship to what they’re next to, giving us a constant source of optical illusions. This makes mixing accurate color rather complicated. Below are a few optical quandaries to illustrate how complicated this “accurate seeing” stuff …
Join us in celebrating the remarkable solo show of paintings by League artist Sharon Wherland, on display through June at the Seattle Artist League Gallery (SALGAL). Closing reception June 15th as part of the Georgetown Art Walk. Spend a few minutes looking at these paintings, and you’ll begin to hear music. Sharon Wherland’s show, “Movement …
Day 13: Cardsharps #30SAL
This is day 13 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today we have transcription challenge. Make something inspired by Caravaggio’s The Cardsharps (1594).
What’s a transcription? In art, to transcribe is to copy or record information in a different form than the original. To transcribe a painting or drawing is not to copy the artwork exactly, but instead to record observations in a different form. A transcription also doesn’t need to copy everything in an original. An artist can choose to pull selected aspects of information here and there from within an artwork. An artist can choose to transcribe a color palette, size relationships, or an idea from an original. For many artists, the goal is not a perfect and complete copy of an artwork, but instead to use the artwork as a jumping off point to further their own work.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #cardsharps
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
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I chose the clip above for Kerry James Marshall’s thoughts about how identifying as a Black artist is not a real choice, because only white artists are not burdened by the problems of race. Then the paintings of Black artists in the ‘Being an Artist” video (above) led me to seek out more of Marshall’s …
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Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Colors are shifty buggers. The way we process visual information causes colors to change in relationship to what they’re next to, giving us a constant source of optical illusions. This makes mixing accurate color rather complicated. Below are a few optical quandaries to illustrate how complicated this “accurate seeing” stuff …
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