This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens.
NOMOTHETIC
adj. relating to the study or discovery of general scientific laws.
: relating to, involving, or dealing with abstract, general, or universal statements or laws.
From Meriam-Webster:
Nomothetic is often contrasted with “idiographic,” a word meaning “relating to or dealing with something concrete, individual, or unique.” Where “idiographic” points to the specific and unique, “nomothetic” points to the general and consistent. The immediate Greek parent of nomothetic is a word meaning “of legislation”; the word has its roots in nomos, meaning “law,” and -thetēs, meaning “one who establishes.” “Nomos” has played a part in the histories of words as varied as “metronome,” “autonomous,” and “Deuteronomy.”
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Prizes awarded for creativity and participation
To be eligible for a prize, and to help motivate other people, post your creative project to Facebook or Instagram or email it to me directly, and use the tags: #salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
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Exercise your creativity
This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens.
#salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
Prizes awarded for creativity and participation
To be eligible for a prize, and to help motivate other people, post your creative project to Facebook or Instagram or email it to me directly, and use the tags: #salchallenge @seattleartistleague #(word of the day)
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