Hi Everyone!

We’re excited to launch Creative Clues, a new monthly feature of Art Starts at Louisville Visual Art. With each new Clue, we’ll provide some pointers to help you succeed and improve.

Creative Clues Showcase

CLUE: COLOR
Deadline for artwork submission is June 29, 2022 at midnight.

HOW TO: ROYGBIV - All the Colors of the Rainbow!

June has long been recognized as LGBTQ Pride Month, the rainbow flag is an international symbol for LGBTQ pride and can be seen flying proudly, during both the promising times and the difficult ones, all around the world. Gilbert Baker, originally designed the Pride Flag, with eight colors for the stripes. The contemporary six-striped flag colors include red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.

Now, you may notice ROYGBIV has 7 colors, the original Pride flag had 8 colors, and the current day Pride flag has 6 colors. No matter what, we are celebrating Pride and diversity this month using all of the colors of the rainbow. Please be inspired by the works of David Hockney, Jae Lin and Kehinde Wiley.

David Hockney, Going Up Garrowby Hill, 2000

David Hockney, The Bigger Grand Canyon, 1998

David Hockney was born in England in 1937. He now lives in California and England, notice the colors. Hockney was influential in the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. These days he is still painting, and he is even painting on his ipad.

To learn more about David Hockney visit this link: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-david-hockney

Jae Lin is a nonbinary artist in Austin, Texas. Lin creates all of their lettering with ink, marker and brush pens on paper and incorporates digital design and illustration. Their message is to uplift. “I hope I can play a small part in subverting narratives around trans and queer stories, which often focus on how much we suffer and hate ourselves and our bodies,” Lin said. “We also have so much growing, blossoming and flourishing in our stories.”

“My work focuses on trans liberation, loving affirmations and acknowledging the possibility for post-traumatic growth and healing within all of us…”
Jae Lin

To learn more about Jae Lin visit this link: https://www.genderunbound.org/project/jae-lin/

Kehinde Wiley is an artist from Los Angeles, and is based in New York City. Wiley was the first black openly gay artist to paint an official Presidential portrait.

To learn more about Kehinde Wiley visit this link: https://kehindewiley.com/

Enjoy this fun video: ROYGBIV, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS VIDEO

Making your own unique colored, textured papers!

Use this paper as one beautiful piece of art, or for all kinds of fun creations, such as backgrounds for illustrations or greeting cards, paper weaving, collage projects and more. Check out Eric Carle, he made his own colorful papers and then created illustrations with those colorful papers.

Marble Rolling, and Sponging & Dragging

Supplies:

Heavier paper, construction paper, you can use copy paper but don’t get it too wet
Marbles, ping pong balls, small balls
Jelly roll pan with sides, covered in foil, or a shallow box (big enough to hold a 9 inch by 12 inch paper)
Tempera paints or poster paints
Water
Water bowl
Old yogurt cups, or something to hold a small amount of paint

Instructions for Marble Rolling:

Place paper on jelly roll pan or shallow box
If your tempera paint is thick, water it down a bit in the yogurt cups
Dribble the paint on top of the paper, dribble several colors
Drop your marbles and balls on to the paint and paper
Using your hands, move the jelly roll pan or box back and forth, and side to side, through the paint
Take the paper out of the jelly roll pan or box and let it dry, it may take a few hours or so

Sponging and Dragging

Supplies:

Heavier paper, construction paper, you can use copy paper but don’t get it too wet
Tempera paints or poster paints
Paint brush, any size (optional)
Water
Water bowl
Old yogurt cups, or something to hold a small amount of paint
Newspapers to protect table tops
Plastic shopping bags
Corrugated cardboard scraps

Instructions for Sponging:

Place newspapers on table top
Place paper on newspapers
Put paint in yogurt cups, a drop about the size of a quarter to start, if you need more you can add more later
Add a few drops of water to the paint so it is not thick
Take the plastic shopping bag and scrunch it into a ball (I use these all the time, you don’t want to use your household sponges that you clean with)
Dip the plastic bag into the paint
Dab the plastic bag onto your paper, repeat, as you like
You can do one color or add as many colors as you like
Let the paper dry, it may take a few hours or so

Instructions for Dragging:

Tear one side of your corrugated cardboard off. So now you have a side with that zig zag edge
Place newspapers on table top
Place paper on newspapers
Put paint in yogurt cups, a drop about the size of a quarter to start, if you need more you can add more later
Take brush and brush paint onto the paper, or pour a bit of paint onto the paper
Take the zig zag side of the cardboard and drag through the paint
Let the paper dry, it may take a few hours, especially if your paint was thick

Save all this paper for collage projects, paper mosaic tiling, paper weaving. You shouldn’t throw this stuff away. This kind of paper comes in handy for artists!

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy

Send in your COLOR artwork

Deadline for artwork submission is June 29, 2022 at midnight.

Content: family friendly (LVA will determine if artwork is appropriate to share online.)
Ages 5 to 105!
Photo Guidelines: here is a nifty link, if you want to learn to take great pictures of your artwork

Consent and Permission: By filling out the form below, you give LVA permission to display your artwork and information in the Creative Clue Showcase. *NOTE: if you are under 18 years old, please have a parent or guardian complete the form.
Address: email artwork to: artstartshere@louisvillevisualart.org
Social Media: you may share your artwork on Instagram: #artwithinreach, #ArtStartsAtLVA

LVA will notify you if your artwork is in the Creative Clues Showcase at the end of the month. artstartshere@louisvillevisualart.org

Send Us Your Artwork

Remember to use your past How To pages to come up with creative solutions for your new clue:

January 2021 - Winter -Thumbnails

February 2021 - Heart - Research

March 2021 - Chair

April 2021 - Spring

May 2021 - Breeze

June 2021 - Light

July 2021 - Together

August 2021 - Trees

September 2021 - Apples & Pears