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January 31, 2017

Enter the February Art Dare!

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“RAPID FIRE DRAWING”

When Prof Lieu’s daughter was in 1st grade, she would come home with these drawing charts. This month, draw responses for each word on one (or more) of our charts!


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Requirements

Print a hard copy of a chart from below. Draw directly on the chart with any 2D media.  You must fill in every box on at least 1 chart to qualify, brownie points for doing more than 1!


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To Submit

Post your chart on Instagram, tag us @art.prof  w/ #artprofdare.

Or, post your chart on our Facebook page.


 We feature your submissions on our Instagram and Facebook page too!

Submissions close Tues., Feb. 28 @ 11:59pm EST

Questions?  Comment below or Email us.



Artist Prizes

We award prizes in categories based on the submissions we receive. In the past, prizes we’ve given have included “Tremendous Improvement,” “Innovative Brainstorming,” and Honorable Mentions. To be eligible for a prize, your artwork must be created specifically for this Art Dare, and follow all guidelines.


Prize winners receive: Prof Lieu’s book Learn, Create and Teach + a 10 min. Q&A audio response to 1-2 questions about any art related topic. Your audio will be from 2 Art Prof Teaching Assistants.  Honorable mentions will win an Art Prof sticker set.


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Art Teacher’s Prize

Art Teachers: assign this Art Dare to one of your classes!

For your class to be eligible, each student must complete at least 3 charts. 


One class will win a large Art Prof sticker for each student, and a class video critique from Prof Lieu. (watch below) In the class video critique, each student will receive a 1 minute critique on an artwork of their choice. Limit of 25 students. Grades 8 and up are eligible.



Submission Guidelines for Art Teachers

If you have an Instagram for your classroom, post your students’ responses there. Encourage your students to post on their own accounts as well!

For each submission, tag us @art.prof w/ #artprofdare.


You can also submit via DropBox or Google Drive.  Place your students’ artworks in a folder, and then share the folder to Prof Lieu‘s email.



Related Articles

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When Should a Visual Artist Let Go of an Idea?



ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to art education for people of all ages and means.


Be notified of our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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Portfolio Video Critiques for Art Students & Artists

Prof Clara Lieu offers 30 minute video critiques on 8-20 artworks for students working on a portfolio for art school admission, and for artists of any age working on their artwork. Watch a sample below, and get more info here.



ART DARES

Every month, we assign a topic for you to respond to with an artwork. We give out prizes in several categories, and post select submissions on our Instagram  and other sites throughout the month. Use #artprofwip and Prof Clara Lieu might just stop by and give you some feedback! We have a special prize for art teachers who assign the Art Dare to one of their classes. More info is here.




Ask the Art Prof Live was a weekly live video broadcast on our Facebook page where Prof Clara Lieu provided professional advice for art students and professional artists. Ask the Art Prof began as a written column in 2013 and was featured in the Huffington Post from 2013-2015.  See the full archive of columns here. Prof Lieu discussed being an artist today, art technique & materials, work strategies for artists, career advice, teaching art, and more.




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Published on January 31, 2017 23:20

January 29, 2017

Video Editing Hibernation

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by Clara Lieu


Although I’m now fairly proficient with using Premiere to edit video, I’m still learning more every day about the editing process.  I’m constantly looking for ways to make my editing process more efficient, but it’s still a rocky process at times, with occasional moments of panic that can be pretty stressful.


However, as challenging as the process is, learning how to shoot and edit video has been really exciting. It’s been really interesting for me to compare how completely different the process is compared to drawing/printmaking/sculpture. Not only are the materials incredibly different, but the entire mindset and work rhythms are in great contrast to what I’m used to.  For example, I’m accustomed to having only about 40% of what I create actually get used and exhibited in a public setting. The concept of not using everything I create, and throwing out pieces that took hours of labor is not foreign.  However, I was not prepared for how much more dramatic this would process would be in terms of video. I feel like with video, only about 5% of what I create actually ends up in the finished product.


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Putting together our sizzle reel to announce the upcoming site launch took a painful amount of time for a video that is only 1:30 minutes long. I spent two afternoons outside of our studio shooting B roll clips with various artists that amounted to about 10 hours total. In the end, only about 15 seconds of those 10 hours ended up in the sizzle reel.


When editing the tutorials, I feel like I’m lopping off heads left and right.  I do several passes of editing because each time I watch the footage, I see something different. A video that began as a 10 minutes long, gets whittled down to 7 minutes, then 5 minutes, and then 3 minutes.  I’m hoping that in the future my first pass of editing will be more vicious, but I’m amazed at how difficult it is to judge your own content and ask yourself, “do I REALLY need this clip?” Boiling the videos now to the barest essentials is so challenging, and I’ve had to make some tough decisions about what is truly critical to get across. People have such short attention spans today, and I know that if I ramble off about something I will lose them.  I would rather teach a short lesson that gets people to truly grasp a simple, fundamental idea really well, than have them watch a tutorial that is overly full of detail to the point that they end up tuning out.


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On top of that, there are so many details to this process that it’s hard for me to even keep them straight.  I had absolutely no clue that file storage was going to become such a huge issue. With the vast quantity of video we are shooting,  I had a bit of scare this week because my laptop started crashing really often.  My laptop was getting too full and we had to buy several new drives and compulsively back everything up in several places to be sure that nothing would be lost. Things got so bad that I actually spent 2 whole days just organizing, renaming, and copying files.  I can’t think of a task that is more boring and tedious, but it was critical to do.  The thought of losing everything was enough to scare me into doing it!


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ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to art education for people of all ages and means.


Be notified of our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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Portfolio Video Critiques for Art Students & Artists

Prof Clara Lieu offers 30 minute video critiques on 8-20 artworks for students working on a portfolio for art school admission, and for artists of any age working on their artwork. Watch a sample below, and get more info here.




ART DARES

Every month, we assign a topic for you to respond to with an artwork. We give out prizes in several categories, and post select submissions on our Instagram  and other sites throughout the month. Use #artprofwip and Prof Clara Lieu might just stop by and give you some feedback! We have a special prize for art teachers who assign the Art Dare to one of their classes. More info is here.




Ask the Art Prof Live was a weekly live video broadcast on our Facebook page where Prof Clara Lieu provided professional advice for art students and professional artists. Ask the Art Prof began as a written column in 2013 and was featured in the Huffington Post from 2013-2015.  See the full archive of columns here. Prof Lieu discussed being an artist today, art technique & materials, work strategies for artists, career advice, teaching art, and more.



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Published on January 29, 2017 06:20

January 25, 2017

Super Busy Bees at Art Prof

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by Clara Lieu


Things here at Art Prof may have seemed fairly quiet on the blog recently, but on the contrary, our work flow is seriously heating up for our upcoming site launch.  This past weekend we had a four day marathon of shooting video content with myself along with TAs Annie Irwin, Yves-Olivier Mandereau, Casey Roonan, and Lauryn Welch. We stocked up on what will be several months of video content, while I transition to video editing hibernation for the next several weeks.


The TAs and I created a wide range of video content for the new website this past weekend:  bio videos for each staff member, intro videos for each section of the site, Q&Art videos which are spontaneous round table discussions on various art related topics, and Crit Trios where three of our staff critique a single artwork.



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One aspect of the production process that we’ve realized is that despite the fact that being on set feels messy and disorganized at times,  (let’s just say that we will have more than enough content for blooper reels) it’s truly incredible the way the content is dramatically transformed in the editing process. What can at times feel like a stream of mistakes can turn into a slick, polished video in the end.


What’s very exciting is how diverse the video content has become.  Even just 6 months ago, we were relying heavily on stills to fill in the gaps in our videos.  Now, we have left our “Ken Burns” stills behind and have gone all out to video. Of course, that’s about ten times more work, and much more complicated, but wow, the results are totally worth it. I’ve also been surprising myself by the sometimes ridiculous situations I have put myself into for the sake of getting the right footage.  At one point, I found myself carrying all of the lighting equipment, cameras, my laptop and more on my back, as I walked up what must have been a 45 degree hill in the middle of a fierce winter blizzard.  One thing I’ve learned about being an artist:  when you’re truly passionate and believe in your project, you’ll do ANYTHING to make it happen.


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ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to art education for people of all ages and means.


Be notified of our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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Portfolio Video Critiques for Art Students & Artists

Prof Clara Lieu offers 30 minute video critiques on 8-20 artworks for students working on a portfolio for art school admission, and for artists of any age working on their artwork. Watch a sample below, and get more info here.




ART DARES

Every month, we assign a topic for you to respond to with an artwork. We give out prizes in several categories, and post select submissions on our Instagram  and other sites throughout the month. Use #artprofwip and Prof Clara Lieu might just stop by and give you some feedback! We have a special prize for art teachers who assign the Art Dare to one of their classes. More info is here.




Ask the Art Prof Live was a weekly live video broadcast on our Facebook page where Prof Clara Lieu provided professional advice for art students and professional artists. Ask the Art Prof began as a written column in 2013 and was featured in the Huffington Post from 2013-2015.  See the full archive of columns here. Prof Lieu discussed being an artist today, art technique & materials, work strategies for artists, career advice, teaching art, and more.



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Published on January 25, 2017 21:14

January 11, 2017

2 New Drawing Tutorials

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by Clara Lieu


I came up with the idea for Art Prof way back in October 2014, and it still constantly amazes me how far we have come since that idea first floated in my head. Way back in the fall of 2015, we shot a portrait drawing in charcoal tutorial, which I always imagined was going to be the featured tutorial when we launched the new Art Prof website.


In recent months I’ve been reviewing our content, as we prepare for our upcoming site launch.  Looking at this 2015 tutorial, it felt completely out of place within the context of all of our new content.  This 2015 tutorial (photo below) was really my first time on camera and it really shows if you watch this tutorial compared to our new content. I was very nervous at the time, so I heavily scripted every single sentence.  On top of that, I knew absolutely nothing about the video editing process, so I had no idea what could be done in terms of post production. It was exciting to learn so much, but as we all know, those first steps in a new experience are always awkward and challenging.


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On the set of my first charcoal drawing tutorial, shot in 2015



In the 2015 tutorial, I worked with an editor and sat next to him to edit the content and add additional content like diagrams, terminology, etc. to the video. I guess the equivalent would be if I traveled to Turkey, and needed an interpreter with me every second I was there to get around.


By comparison, I am now fluent and could navigate Turkey entirely by myself: I know all aspects of the tutorial process and can think through the process much more quickly and efficiently.  I’ve spent countless hours learning video editing, and while I’m no expert, I can competently edit a video with little help.  I don’t script the tutorials at all.  I literally write down about 10 bullet points I want to cover, (see photo below) and then everything else I make up on the spot. Doing the tutorials ad lib is about 2% of the work I did on the 2015 tutorial, it’s about 1000 easier, and the results are significantly better.  When I scripted the tutorials, it made me nervous and stiff. Now, my approach to what I say is very similar to how I teach in my classes at RISD-completely spontaneous and unscripted.


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I slaved over that 2015 tutorial, and put in a mind boggling number of hours into it, between the planning/shooting/post production, etc. Most of those hours were difficult and frustrating because I was so new to the process. However, I had to face the fact that this tutorial was going to be a terribly sore thumb within the context of our new content, so as painful as it was, I decided to scrap the 2015 tutorial and shoot all new tutorials for the new website.


I’m enough of a perfectionist that I’m willing to part with material I invested tons of labor into for the sake of maintaining consistency and quality on the new website. The 2 new tutorials are on how to draw a still life and self-portrait using Caran d’Ache crayons. With my new skills in video editing and being on camera that I’ve been honing for 2 years now, I think these new tutorials are a vast improvement.


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Drawing in color is such a great way to get acquainted with color without having to break the bank paying for tons of painting supplies. I think so many people think about drawing media as being only black and white, and don’t even consider very often that you can really learn a lot about color through drawing.  Using color in drawing is a good option especially when the large number of painting supplies is too expensive, or if you haven’t taken a painting class yet. (in my opinion, painting really is one of those techniques where if you don’t have proper training, and don’t know exactly what supplies to purchase, it really is insufferably difficult to do)


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The self-portrait drawing tutorial demonstrates how to draw a self-portrait from life.  I was surprised that when I looked up “How to draw a self-portrait” on Youtube, that there is no video that shows you how to draw a self-portrait using a mirror.  Every video showed the artist drawing from a photo of themselves.  I found one video where the artist held a mirror in his hand, but didn’t use it.  (why are you holding a mirror if you aren’t going to use it to draw a self-portrait?) I am hoping this tutorial fills a gap-because clearly, there is a huge one when it comes to drawing a self-portrait from life.



ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to art education for people of all ages and means.


Be notified of our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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Portfolio Video Critiques for Art Students & Artists

Prof Clara Lieu offers 30 minute video critiques on 8-20 artworks for students working on a portfolio for art school admission, and for artists of any age working on their artwork. Watch a sample below, and get more info here.




ART DARES

Every month, we assign a topic for you to respond to with an artwork. We give out prizes in several categories, and post select submissions on our Instagram  and other sites throughout the month. Use #artprofwip and Prof Clara Lieu might just stop by and give you some feedback! We have a special prize for art teachers who assign the Art Dare to one of their classes. More info is here.




Ask the Art Prof Live was a weekly live video broadcast on our Facebook page where Prof Clara Lieu provided professional advice for art students and professional artists. Ask the Art Prof began as a written column in 2013 and was featured in the Huffington Post from 2013-2015.  See the full archive of columns here. Prof Lieu discussed being an artist today, art technique & materials, work strategies for artists, career advice, teaching art, and more.



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Published on January 11, 2017 16:33

December 31, 2016

Hillary Clinton and #scarsthatspeak

by Clara Lieu


2016 was the first year I created political art. In this video, I demonstrate my drawing process and explain #scarsthatspeak, my new series of drawings of Hillary Clinton, and the older generations of women, inspired by the 2016 presidential election.



Related Articles

#scarsthatspeak

Generations of Women and the Scars They Walk With

A Burst of Artistic Inspiration for the First Time in 2 Years

Anticipating a New Drawing Project

Drawing Again After a Two Year Drought

Drawing Experiments

Teaching Through My Artwork

Drawing Experiments:  Layered Drawings

The Tug of Thumbnail Sketches



ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to art education for people of all ages and means.


Be notified of our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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Portfolio Video Critiques for Art Students & Artists

Prof Clara Lieu offers 30 minute video critiques on 8-20 artworks for students working on a portfolio for art school admission, and for artists of any age working on their artwork. Watch a sample below, and get more info here.




ART DARES

Every month, we assign a topic for you to respond to with an artwork. We give out prizes in several categories, and post select submissions on our Instagram  and other sites throughout the month. Use #artprofwip and Prof Clara Lieu might just stop by and give you some feedback! We have a special prize for art teachers who assign the Art Dare to one of their classes. More info is here.




Ask the Art Prof Live was a weekly live video broadcast on our Facebook page where Prof Clara Lieu provided professional advice for art students and professional artists. Ask the Art Prof began as a written column in 2013 and was featured in the Huffington Post from 2013-2015.  See the full archive of columns here. Prof Lieu discussed being an artist today, art technique & materials, work strategies for artists, career advice, teaching art, and more.



 


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Published on December 31, 2016 18:51

December 27, 2016

November Art Dare Results are in!


Thanks to all of you who participated in the November Art Dare! We were thrilled to see all of the submissions and hope that you’ll participate in the December/January Art Dare.  Judges were Prof Clara Lieu, and Teaching Assistants Casey Roonan, Lauryn Welch, Yves-Olivier Mandereau, Annie Irwin, Alex Rowe, and Deepti Menon.


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Below are our prize winners!



Maya Sternberg, Honorable Mention


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Elysha Tsai, Honorable Mention


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Jieru Lin, Innovative Materials Prize


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Wendy Duong, Composition Prize


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Hyeji Kim, Form & Texture Prize


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Emma Heyes, Process & Development Prize


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Shelly Leroux, Art Teacher’s Prize

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Art Dare drawings by Shelly’s students below!


Click to view slideshow.

ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to art education for people of all ages and means.


Be notified of our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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Published on December 27, 2016 09:22

December 16, 2016

December Art Dare extended through January!

 


[image error]Submission for this month’s Art Dare from Sarah from @sketchofthedays.



Since many people are on vacation in the last half of December, we’ve decided to extend our December Art Dare through January 31!  Get details below on the Art Dare. 



“My 2016”

Create an artwork about what 2016 was for you, in any 2D media.

Your piece can be about a subject that didn’t directly happen to you, or it can be about a personal experience.



Below are topics if you want a place to start:

a change  •  a new person  • a new place  •  a success  •  an event  •  a death  •  a celebration  •  a failure  •  use the text “2016” in your image


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An #artprofwip submission for this month’s Art Dare by @emotional.cabbage.



To Submit

Post your artwork on Instagram, tag us @art.prof  w/ #artprofdare.

Or, post your artwork on our Facebook page.


Use #artprofwip, and Prof Clara Lieu might drop by and give feedback on your in progress artwork. We feature submissions on our Instagram and Facebook page during the month!


Submissions close Tues., Jan. 31 @ 11:59pm EST

Questions?  Comment below or Email us.


MORE INFO ON PRIZES/TIPS



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Submission for this month’s Art Dare from Owen from @sketchofthedays.  He writes: “With this sketch I hope to elaborate on my change as a person throughout the year of 2016. I feel this year, I’ve been closer to my true self then I’ve ever been. This is mainly due to the pre-college program I attended over the summer. I’m currently figuring out ways to brain storm this transformation.”



ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to high quality art education for people of all ages and means. Imagine all of the resources here on our blog, except exponentially bigger, in greater quantity, and in more detail. Our Kickstarter hit its $30k goal on July 19, 2016.  Get info on our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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Published on December 16, 2016 16:12

December 5, 2016

Art Critique for Carol Haggerty’s Art Class


We were thrilled to award the Art Teacher’s prize for the September Art Dare to Carol Haggerty, who teaches at Millis High School. The Art Teacher’s prize allows each student in the class to submit an artwork of their choice for a 1 minute video critique from Prof Clara Lieu.  Watch Carol’s class video critique above.  If you are an artist or an art teacher, consider submitting to our December Art Dare!


We were really impressed with the way Carol’s students experimented and pushed themselves with charcoal.  You can see below that each student developed their own visual language for drawing with charcoal, and the excellent results they got. Below you can see several of the charcoal self-portraits that students in Carol’s class created in response to the Art Dare.



Charcoal Self-Portrait Drawing, by a student at Millis High School
Charcoal Self-Portrait Drawing, by a student at Millis High School
Charcoal Self-Portrait Drawing, by a student at Millis High School
Charcoal Self-Portrait Drawing, by a student at Millis High School


ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to high quality art education for people of all ages and means. Imagine all of the resources here on our blog, except exponentially bigger, in greater quantity, and in more detail. Our Kickstarter hit its $30k goal on July 19, 2016.  Get info on our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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ART DARES

Every month, we assign a topic for you to respond to with an artwork. We give out prizes in several categories, and post select submissions on our Instagram  and other sites throughout the month. Use #artprofwip and Prof Clara Lieu might just stop by and give you some feedback! We have a special video critique prize for art teachers who assign the Art Dare to one of their classes. More info is here.



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Published on December 05, 2016 20:58

When You Have No Words, Speak with Art

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by Clara Lieu


(first published on the Huffington Post on 12/2/16)


As a professional visual artist, all of the artwork I’ve created in my life is about as far away from politics as you can get. Not once in my entire career, or even as an art student, have I ever had any remote desire to address politics in my artwork. I once received an assignment in art school to illustrate a newspaper headline. I remember that I intentionally chose a headline that had nothing to do with politics. I had zero interest in talking about politics in my art and did everything I could to avoid it.


This year’s presidential election completely changed that. The election results left me in utter shock. I spent the day after the election reading a flood of emotionally charged statements and messages from my friends and family. I wanted to contribute, but every time I sat down to write, I simply had no words.


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Kathe Kollwitz, Outbreak, 1903



Recently, it occurred to me that many of my personal favorites from art history depict difficult, and often times violent political events: Kathe Kollwitz’s print Outbreak, Picasso’s epic Guernica, Leon Golub’s painting Interrogation II, Goya’s painting The Executions to name a few.


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Francisco Goya, The Executions,1814





I know these specific artworks like the back of my hand. For years, I’ve analyzed their color schemes, deconstructed their layout and backgrounds, examined individual brush strokes up close in person, and more. Revisiting these artworks after the election, I realized that despite my comprehensive, formal understanding of these works as art, I really had no clue what pushed these artists to create these startling images.


Now, I completely understand where those artists found their motivation. For the first time in my life, I feel an intense urgency inside me that desperately wants to make art about events that are unfolding every day. I can’t just move on with my life and pretend that everything will be fine. Otherwise, I am just a bystander.


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Leon Golub,  Interrogation II, 1981



Despite my surge of desire to create political art, deep down I’m petrified to start. Most of my past artwork has been about personal experiences. The intrinsic nature of personal narratives is that they are experienced by only the artist, and therefore generally do not invite contentious public reactions. By contrast, political art inevitably invites intense scrutiny from the audience. Political art is frequently charged and startling, and easily elicits heated emotional reactions in a way that a still life painting of apples never will. For me, if I get up tomorrow and paint apples, that means I’m saying that everything is fine. If there’s anything I’m sure of, it’s that nothing is fine right now.


I couldn’t agree more when people state that “words matter.” I would add that images matter just as much, and that art has always been a powerful means of communication that can resonate for centuries. This presidential election has galvanized me to make political art. The next time I step into my studio to work, it will be with a new sense of purpose.



ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to high quality art education for people of all ages and means. Imagine all of the resources here on our blog, except exponentially bigger, in greater quantity, and in more detail. Our Kickstarter hit its $30k goal on July 19, 2016.  Get info on our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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ART DARES

Every month, we assign a topic for you to respond to with an artwork. We give out prizes in several categories, and post select submissions on our Instagram  and other sites throughout the month. Use #artprofwip and Prof Clara Lieu might just stop by and give you some feedback! We have a special prize for art teachers who assign the Art Dare to one of their classes. More info is here.




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Published on December 05, 2016 06:28

December 1, 2016

Enter the December-January Art Dare!


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“My 2016”

Create an artwork about what 2016 was for you, in any 2D media.

Your piece can be about a subject that didn’t directly happen to you, or it can be about a personal experience.



Below are topics if you want a place to start:

a change  •  a new person  • a new place  •  a success  •  an event  •  a death  •  a celebration  •  a failure  •  use the text “2016” in your image



To Submit

Post your artwork on Instagram, tag us @art.prof  w/ #artprofdare.

Or, post your artwork on our Facebook page.


Use #artprofwip, and Prof Clara Lieu might drop by and give feedback on your in progress artwork. We feature submissions on our Instagram and Facebook page during the month!


Submissions close Tues., Jan. 31 @ 11:59pm EST

Questions?  Comment below or Email us.




Artist Prizes

We award prizes in categories based on the submissions we receive. In the past, prizes we’ve given have included “Tremendous Improvement,” “Innovative Brainstorming,” and Honorable Mentions. The prize winners receive a hand-pulled mezzotint by Prof Lieu, (value $200) and a 10 min. video critique on 3-5 artworks from Prof Lieu.  Honorable mention winners will receive an Art Prof sticker set.


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Art Teacher’s Prize

Art Teachers: assign this Art Dare to one of your classes! One class will win a large Art Prof sticker for each student, and a class video critique from Prof Lieu. (watch below) In the class video critique, each student will receive a 1 minute critique on an artwork of their choice. Limit of 25 students. Grades 8 and up are eligible to enter.



Submission Guidelines for Art Teachers

If you have an Instagram for your classroom, you can post your students’ artwork there. Encourage your students to post their submissions on their own accounts as well! For each submission, tag us @art.prof w/ #artprofdare. Use #artprofwip, and Prof Lieu might drop by and give feedback to your students!


Your official class submission must be done via DropBox or Google Drive.  Place your students’ artworks in a folder, and then share the folder to Prof Lieu‘s email.


To be eligible for a prize, your artwork must be created specifically for this Art Dare, and must follow all guidelines.



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ART PROF is a free, online educational platform for visual arts which provides equal access to high quality art education for people of all ages and means. Imagine all of the resources here on our blog, except exponentially bigger, in greater quantity, and in more detail. Our Kickstarter hit its $30k goal on July 19, 2016.  Get info on our early 2017 site launch by subscribing to our email list.


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Published on December 01, 2016 21:21