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
UNDERESTIMATING THE TRANSLATION. When I look at a painting made by observation I can’t help but assume that the artist painted what they saw in front of them, more or less. If their marks are colorful angled palette knife shapes as they are in Tina Kraft’s plein air painting above, I assume they pulled the …
Day 10 of this 30 Day Challenge was to create something in the style of Morandi’s still lives. This particular prompt produced a prolific collection of quiet responses. Here are some.
Before all those orange artworks, I was posting about Figure in Interior; the most unusual art class I’ve ever been a part of. I talked about Cezanne, and how making small marks distributed around the page (thank you to Fran O’Neill) can be a way to integrate time and change within a drawing. My premise …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. WELTER n. a large number of items …
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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