Welcome to another day of creative CrossFit! Today is 23 out of 30. Only one more week to go!
I’ve been talking about various forms of perspective. Perspective has a lot of rules! Sometimes with all these rules about art, I forget that getting it “right” can actually make a drawing less interesting.
Australian artist William Robinson paints landscapes using multiple perspectives that often give the viewer the sensation that they are inside the space. The land curves to show expansive views, the trees reach for the sky first up, then down. I’m reminded of the strange cut out shapes a globe makes when you attempt to flatten it unsuccessfully into a two dimensional map. Robinson’s paintings contain the land and sky as they surround us. They call attention to how ridiculously boring it is that we take all of space and flatten it into a tiny rectangle, and then pretend it’s like real life. Human beings move around. We look up and down. We walk this way and that. Does not the world turn below our feet?
Today’s Challenge: Create something using multiple perspectives.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #multipleperspectives
[image_with_animation image_url=”7724″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Piet Mondrian, 1912 Yesterday’s challenge was to draw a tree from observation. That was part 1 of 3. Today is part 2 of 3. Today we’ll do the same, only different. Look again at the tree. If you did a drawing, study your drawing. Look at the branches, how …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8266″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Did you know there’s a special Seattle Artist League page where you can post your artwork? OMG Yes! Paintings by People is a Facebook group for past and present Leaguers. Contrary to the name (I started it when we were just a painting class), Paintings by People is not just …
I posted a V-Note about Casey Klahn’s pastels a while ago, and received a letter of thanks from him. We chatted a bit and I asked him if he’d be willing to teach a workshop at our new school. He asked about the students and the space, and I described us as a puppy with …
Still Lifes I haven’t had much time to write but I’m seeing V. Note inspirations everywhere, so even though I can’t type a long and thoughtful post, I wanted to send you these still lifes by Lucy MacGillis, because I like them and they get me thinking about my own work, and upcoming classes for …
Day 23: Multiple Perspectives #30SAL
Welcome to another day of creative CrossFit! Today is 23 out of 30. Only one more week to go!
I’ve been talking about various forms of perspective. Perspective has a lot of rules! Sometimes with all these rules about art, I forget that getting it “right” can actually make a drawing less interesting.
Australian artist William Robinson paints landscapes using multiple perspectives that often give the viewer the sensation that they are inside the space. The land curves to show expansive views, the trees reach for the sky first up, then down. I’m reminded of the strange cut out shapes a globe makes when you attempt to flatten it unsuccessfully into a two dimensional map. Robinson’s paintings contain the land and sky as they surround us. They call attention to how ridiculously boring it is that we take all of space and flatten it into a tiny rectangle, and then pretend it’s like real life. Human beings move around. We look up and down. We walk this way and that. Does not the world turn below our feet?
Today’s Challenge: Create something using multiple perspectives.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #multipleperspectives
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