Today is Design Friday, so your challenge is something the graphic designers will likely be familiar with: figure/ground reversal. “Figure/ground” is a phrase that came from modern German Gestalt psychology. It refers to how our mind organizes forms, distinguishing an object (figure) from its background (ground). In the early 1900s Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin famously experimented …
Last quarter I saw a profound shift in artwork at the school. It happened in Jonathan Harkham‘s Still Life class. Jonathan Harkham is an artist and educator who is joining us from his studio in LA. On the first day of class I noticed there were some nice student paintings, then increasingly through the weeks …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7871″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Claire Putney Draw/paint/collage/print/photograph what comes to your mind with the word “connectivity.” Share your sketches to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge) The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
Artist Talk Nikki Barber on the Scientific Method TODAY! January 28th 2019, 5:30-7:00pm Bellevue College, Gallery Space D271 Science and art are not mutually exclusive. Both are used to explain and make sense of the world around us. Nikki uses her strong scientific background in biology and art to develop her printmaking process, and uses …
Day 29: Teeth
Only one more day in this 30 Day Creative Challenge!
Yesterday you drew your brain. Today, show us your teeth.
Share your brain on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #teeth
Or post to this Padlet.
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Recent Padlet links:
Day 24: The Big Sneeze
Day 25: Cezanne’s Figure
Day 26: Pentimento (see 24)
Day 27: Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress
Day 28: Brain
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