Congratulations! You are halfway through our 30 day creative challenge! How are you doing with the various approaches? Do you have favorites? Hopefully you’ve logged into Instagram or to the Padlets to “like” people’s artistic responses. Awards and prizes will be posted today. Here are links to all the Padlet pages so far:
Day 1: Haptic Self Portrait Day 2: a Cup, a Table, a Wall Day 3: Masaccio Study Day 4: Altarpiece Day 5: Cacoethes Day 6: Altdorfer Harunobu Day 7: Design a Chair Day 8: Jacket Study Day 9: Living Room Day 10: Body Language Day 11: Mayan Throne Day 12: Atramentous Day 13: Cardsharps Day 14: Roly Poly
Remember, you don’t have to complete all 30 out of 30 to participate, and the goal is not to make a masterpiece. The goal is 20 minutes of creative time, whenever you can. If you get to the end of the 20 minutes and you want to keep going for goodness sake don’t let me stop you, but 20 minutes of creative time is a win. To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
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TODAY’S CHALLENGE: Sunday the topic is drawing from observation. Today, make a contour line drawing of a plant. It can be a houseplant, something gathered from outside, or some fruit or veg from the fridge. As you draw, go slowly, keeping your eyes as much on the plant’s edge as possible, looking only occasionally at the paper, moving your pencil at the same speed as you move your eyes. Keep your pencil mostly on the paper, making a fairly continuous line around the outside edges. Focus on the specific shapes and spaces you see in the plant, as well as the shapes and spaces in between the stems and leaves. Do not go back to “fix” your lines, just make your best observations in each moment. We aren’t aiming for the perfect plant drawing, we’re aiming for good focus and attention. Your job is to look.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #plantdrawing
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Preparing for my Unconventional Portraits class, I found this post on WideWalls: a top 10 list of the most influential living – or barely dead – famous portrait artists. You don’t have to like them, but you should know about them. I’m posting my personal thoughts about each …
I was introduced to Stuart Shils by Mitchel Albala’s landscape painter group. Every time we were grappling with how to handle the boundary where one color meets another – the edge – the group would inevitably mention Shils, then get very quiet, as if for a moment of reverence. He does have some very lovely edges. Notice …
Day 15: Draw a Plant #30SAL
Congratulations! You are halfway through our 30 day creative challenge! How are you doing with the various approaches? Do you have favorites? Hopefully you’ve logged into Instagram or to the Padlets to “like” people’s artistic responses. Awards and prizes will be posted today. Here are links to all the Padlet pages so far:
Day 1: Haptic Self Portrait
Day 2: a Cup, a Table, a Wall
Day 3: Masaccio Study
Day 4: Altarpiece
Day 5: Cacoethes
Day 6: Altdorfer Harunobu
Day 7: Design a Chair
Day 8: Jacket Study
Day 9: Living Room
Day 10: Body Language
Day 11: Mayan Throne
Day 12: Atramentous
Day 13: Cardsharps
Day 14: Roly Poly
Remember, you don’t have to complete all 30 out of 30 to participate, and the goal is not to make a masterpiece. The goal is 20 minutes of creative time, whenever you can. If you get to the end of the 20 minutes and you want to keep going for goodness sake don’t let me stop you, but 20 minutes of creative time is a win. To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
TODAY’S CHALLENGE: Sunday the topic is drawing from observation. Today, make a contour line drawing of a plant. It can be a houseplant, something gathered from outside, or some fruit or veg from the fridge. As you draw, go slowly, keeping your eyes as much on the plant’s edge as possible, looking only occasionally at the paper, moving your pencil at the same speed as you move your eyes. Keep your pencil mostly on the paper, making a fairly continuous line around the outside edges. Focus on the specific shapes and spaces you see in the plant, as well as the shapes and spaces in between the stems and leaves. Do not go back to “fix” your lines, just make your best observations in each moment. We aren’t aiming for the perfect plant drawing, we’re aiming for good focus and attention. Your job is to look.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #plantdrawing
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
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