This is been a fantastically prolific challenge! As I write this, there are 1,271 #30sal Instagram posts, and they’re still coming in. WOW! It has been a lot of fun for me to throw out ideas and see what you all create. Thank you to all the local people who participated, and shared this with your friends. How far did this challenge travel? Who is the farthest artist? What connections were made?
This creative challenge was different than most. Each day was designed to trigger a different aspect of visual creative thinking, which clearly inspired a wide array of responses. I’d like to hear how this month was for you. What effect did this challenge have on your days? What do you imagine might be a reverberating effect going forward?
I’ll post my favorites for week 3 tomorrow & I’ll post my favorites for week 4 soon after. I’ve saved a special barrel of confetti for people who completed all 30. Hey – since so many people posted, I wasn’t able to keep track. Who did all 30? Hands up!
[image_with_animation image_url=”7482″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Every day, librarians across America are called to respond to book murders. Each homicide case is tragic, but there are few cases more heartbreaking and more difficult to understand than serial book murder. For years, library scientists, academics, and mental health experts have studied serial book murder, asking why, …
Before there were art supply stores, people made art. Before there were pencils, there were sharpened mineral rocks. Before there were brushes there were clumps of grass and twigs and fur. Today’s drawing is “No Art Store Tools.” You can use paper, but no pencils. Ink is fine, but no pens. So what now? Lots! Use your hands, use your feet. …
The following list was found among the papers of the painter Richard Diebenkorn after his death in 1993. Spelling and capitalization are as in the original. Notes to myself on beginning a painting 1. attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. 2. The …
“Anything done more than a week ago I’m embarrassed about. You think you can get it right, but you never get it right. No one’s got it right. Who got it right?” – Harry Ally Source: https://www.escapeintolife.com/mixed-media-2/breaking-the-mold-art-of-harry-ally/ Harry Paul Ally paints with dry pigments, acrylics, tar, fabrics, oils, bonding agents, and different clays dug from the …
30SAL Challenge: Fini!
This is been a fantastically prolific challenge! As I write this, there are 1,271 #30sal Instagram posts, and they’re still coming in. WOW! It has been a lot of fun for me to throw out ideas and see what you all create. Thank you to all the local people who participated, and shared this with your friends. How far did this challenge travel? Who is the farthest artist? What connections were made?
This creative challenge was different than most. Each day was designed to trigger a different aspect of visual creative thinking, which clearly inspired a wide array of responses. I’d like to hear how this month was for you. What effect did this challenge have on your days? What do you imagine might be a reverberating effect going forward?
I’ll post my favorites for week 3 tomorrow & I’ll post my favorites for week 4 soon after. I’ve saved a special barrel of confetti for people who completed all 30. Hey – since so many people posted, I wasn’t able to keep track. Who did all 30? Hands up!
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