You might have noticed that these daily challenges are a little different than other daily challenges. First of all, for most of the projects you can use any materials you want, not just drawing materials. You can sew, build, paint, print, draw, collage, or anything else that strikes your fancy. More importantly, these aren’t drawing challenges.
Sal Challenges are skill building games specifically designed to stimulate a wide variety of creative skills.
For example, if one day’s challenge is observational drawing, the next could be composition, then memory, humor, expression, meditation, math, narrative, fantasy, or collaboration. This isn’t a definitive list of artistic skills, but I do try to give a wide variety of creative exercises to reflect our wide variety of abilities. Some of you might hate day two but love day three, others will be totally overwhelmed until day seven, but all of us who are participating each day will get a little bit better at everything.
If you find one challenge is easier than another, try to figure out what kind of creative muscle it’s exercising, and consider pushing through instead of skipping it. You could say that math projects are not your style, but style is based on limitations, and this game is specifically designed to reduce our limitations, 15 minutes at a time.
I should title this post “The Least Macabre Paintings I Could Find by the Artist Nicola Samori.” I love his figurative works: the simplified compositions, the suggestions of movement and time, his paint application style, texture, articulation and decay – even his color palette, though admittedly it’s on the darker of the very dark Italian tastes. …
Only two more days in this 30 Day Creative Challenge! Today, let’s see what you’ve been working with. Show us your brain. Share your brain on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #brain Or post to this Padlet. – Recent Padlet links: Day 24: The Big SneezeDay 25: Cezanne’s FigureDay 26: Pentimento (see 24)Day 27: Infanta Margarita …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10246″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Water is notoriously difficult to draw or paint, but there are a few tricks. Instead of making the paint translucent or see-through, consider mixing the colors carefully, and applying the color just as opaquely as you would for a solid object. If you have reflections coming in over still …
Welcome to the 30 Day Challenge The goal of the 30 Day Challenge is to start the new year with a creative habit. The challenges are diverse, and open to all. Before & After. We start our 30 Day Creative Challenge with two separate self portraits: one as you imagine you were on January 1, …
SAL Challenges: How are they different from daily drawings?
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Quilled brain (above) by Sarah Yakawonis
You might have noticed that these daily challenges are a little different than other daily challenges. First of all, for most of the projects you can use any materials you want, not just drawing materials. You can sew, build, paint, print, draw, collage, or anything else that strikes your fancy. More importantly, these aren’t drawing challenges.
If you find one challenge is easier than another, try to figure out what kind of creative muscle it’s exercising, and consider pushing through instead of skipping it. You could say that math projects are not your style, but style is based on limitations, and this game is specifically designed to reduce our limitations, 15 minutes at a time.
What do you say? Ready to give it another try?
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[image_with_animation image_url=”10246″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Water is notoriously difficult to draw or paint, but there are a few tricks. Instead of making the paint translucent or see-through, consider mixing the colors carefully, and applying the color just as opaquely as you would for a solid object. If you have reflections coming in over still …
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