Lendy Hensley, Charcoal on 44″ x 60″ Arches 90lb cold press watercolor paper
“Drawing this way is addictive. I just want to keep addressing every part of my drawing. Time flies. I can’t stop. Been looking at drawings all night and can’t wait to go back tomorrow. I am already sad that tomorrow is our last day.” – Our Provost Lendy Hensley talking about what it’s like to draw in Fran O’Neill’s Giant Figures Workshop Intensive.
Humans are wired to see faces, even in inanimate objects. It’s called Pareidolia. Pareidolia is the tendency for seeing faces in inanimate objects like the moon, clouds, ink blots, or abstract patterns. Pareidolia used to be considered a symptom of human psychosis, but it is now seen as a normal human tendency. We are so …
People posted hundreds of drawings for our 30 day January challenge, in which artists are invited to respond to a daily prompt posted on our V. Notes blog. Unlike other drawing challenges, these prompts are wildly varied, open to non-typical materials around us, and are designed to feed a broad spectrum of creative skills at …
Daphne Minkoff’s latest exhibition, “Facades,” at Harris Harvey Gallery, offers an immersive look into Seattle’s evolving urban landscape. Minkoff, a Seattle-based artist with a special appreciation for urban landscapes, documents our longing for security as it succumbs to inevitable change. Minkoff’s paintings oscillate between hard shadows and low, dull, diffused light, mirroring Seattle’s characteristic lighting. …
1907-1997 Look how the grain of the wood became the courtyard gravel. I love when rather than making a material pretend to be something different, a material is a material, and just a little bit more. I have been looking at Kiyoshi’s woodblock prints. He was most famous for his “Winter in Aizu” series. Sorry …
“I FUCKING LOVE MY DRAWING!!!!!” – Lendy Hensley
“Drawing this way is addictive. I just want to keep addressing every part of my drawing. Time flies. I can’t stop. Been looking at drawings all night and can’t wait to go back tomorrow. I am already sad that tomorrow is our last day.” – Our Provost Lendy Hensley talking about what it’s like to draw in Fran O’Neill’s Giant Figures Workshop Intensive.
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