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!
The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972. (Wikipedia) At their worst, the Situationists could be said to have removed the requirement of specific skill and techniques from art, resulting …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9888″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Wordsmith Studio Found poems are the literary equivalent of a collage, often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, books, online texts (v-notes?), or even other poems. For today’s challenge, take an existing text and refashion it, reorder it, to make a poem. Thank you for sharing your …
I’ve been teaching an expressive portraits class on Friday nights. In the first few classes we talked about common pitfalls including the blueberry pancake effect of features floating in the middle of a round face shape. We practiced how to measure proportions quickly, how to see the three dimensional aspects of a face, what makes …
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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