You are now at the second half of our 30 day creative challenge. It’s all uphill from here! Did you see the post with some of my favorites?
Today’s challenge builds on yesterday’s. You can use the same plant, or even the same drawing, if you wish. This time, instead of drawing continuous contour lines, focus on flattening and simplifying the shapes, so they create a composition across the page. Color in either the plant shapes or the spaces around the plant shapes, so there is stark contrast to the design. Below are a few of Ellsworth Kelly’s designs for inspiration. You can see he’s not just looking at the plant, he’s looking at all the shapes within the whole composition. Notice how parts of each shape overlap, touch, or almost touch the edges of the compositions. See how much energy is in those moments? I love seeing the tiny areas of adjustment in “Plant II” the one right below this text.
Ellsworth Kelly, “Plant II” (1949), oil on wood, 16 1/2 x 13 inchesEllsworth Kelly Study for Plant 1 1949 and Vaults/Flowers 1949
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #organiccomposition
I met Keith Pfeiffer when he took my recent Thursday class “Drawing and Painting the Effects of Light.” I love the paintings he made with the ideas presented in class. I spotted this painting on his Instagram page during the class. I asked him what his strategies were. This is a teacherly way of saying …
I’ve shared most of Carlos San Millan’s favorite paintings by Emil Joseph Robinson but not all, and these paintings are too good to pass by, so I’m sharing the full collection. It’s almost a waste to post them one after the other like this, each of the works is so deserving of independent attention. I’m …
I’m collecting images to share for week three of the SAL Challenge. I’ll post them tomorrow. One more day left in the 31 day creative challenge. Get your sketches up!
Gallery hours: Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM Evening hours: Tuesday and Wednesday from 5-7 PM Admission is free. The M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery is located at the north end of Seattle Central’s Atrium Cafeteria in the main campus building at the corner of Broadway and Pine. The art …
Day 16: Organic Composition #30SAL
You are now at the second half of our 30 day creative challenge. It’s all uphill from here! Did you see the post with some of my favorites?
Today’s challenge builds on yesterday’s. You can use the same plant, or even the same drawing, if you wish. This time, instead of drawing continuous contour lines, focus on flattening and simplifying the shapes, so they create a composition across the page. Color in either the plant shapes or the spaces around the plant shapes, so there is stark contrast to the design. Below are a few of Ellsworth Kelly’s designs for inspiration. You can see he’s not just looking at the plant, he’s looking at all the shapes within the whole composition. Notice how parts of each shape overlap, touch, or almost touch the edges of the compositions. See how much energy is in those moments? I love seeing the tiny areas of adjustment in “Plant II” the one right below this text.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #organiccomposition
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
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