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Draw from your window
Draw from your window, terrace or balcony Paintings are windows. Windows to the imagination of others, to past times, to oneiric dreams, to distant gardens, to restless minds, to abstract worlds... Window, Magritte. Now that we are at home, the window is...
The "Pollock"
The great American expressionist artist-painter Jackson Pollock shared with others like Rothko the hegemony of abstract expressionism in the art world. His proposal, so original at the time, was, however, simple or unsophisticated in execution. It is...
John Berger (photography)
In addition to our determination to create images, good images, images that stimulate us, that give us pleasure, we propose a preparatory exercise for this. To investigate what other people have thought and researched about the photographic process. In that...
Pen and alcohol (part 2ª)
Drawing with a ballpoint pen (portraits) Now we are going to get a little more complicated; we are going to draw a portrait. I'm sure you have magazines and newspapers around where there is a face you like. Well, don't panic. Don't panic. It doesn't have to look like this. Or does it? Portrait drawing...
"This is Art" (recommendations)
Super recommended!!! I love them!!! I love them!!! !!!!! They are a series of documentaries about art, but from concepts and emotions typical of art such as: ecstasy, curiosity, vanity.... They are currently being broadcasted in La 2 of Spanish television. Here you can...
Sculptures with points and straight lines
These sculptures are made with ceramics, cardboard tubes or sticks. Given our situation, we can substitute these materials for the inner cartons of toilet paper or kitchen towels, so let's save them!!! [gallery size="full"...
Artistic diary
Hello creators! In this post we are going to propose you to create an artistic diary. What is that? Look for a notebook that you have at home or create your own with loose sheets; we can also make a small folder. Below you have a pdf to download...
3. Tuning faces (2nd part)
Hi Guys! Today, I am going to propose you to create unusual portraits combining geometry with flat colors and linear patterns. We can use the pictures from the previous post, our own or others from magazines, for example. What do we need: tracing or plain paper,...
Pen and alcohol (part 1ª)
Drawing with a ballpoint pen We propose you a simple work; with materials that you all have at home. At the time of its realization think of the result as a watercolor. That is to say, always thinking in the white, in the clean paper as light. With materials that we have at home...
With eyes closed
Let's draw with our eyes closed. This can be a lot of fun. All you need is a pencil and a piece of paper. Memorize the image before closing your eyes. Close your eyes and draw from memory the outline of the image without opening them. This will give your drawings freshness and will...
Stamp carving (engraving)
Embossing is a type of relief printing that consists of carving an image on a soft surface. It uses ink that is deposited on the non-engraved surface, this allows us to work our dies in a manual and creative way. [gallery...
Through an uncertain fog (photograph)
How are subjects and objects, landscapes, ideas, emotions... when an uncertain fog spills over them and deceives our retinas? We propose a photographic exercise in which the images that you are going to photograph will be made through...