Once a year, the League sponsors a 30 day creative challenge open to artists everywhere, working in any media. Daily challenges will be delivered to your inbox via V. Notes starting January 1, 2021. Subscribe to V. Notes. They’re fun and they’re free!
Will there be prizes? Yes, there will be prizes.
The 30 day challenge starts soon. Who are you going to rope into doing it with you?
1. Do not wait for inspiration. 2. Do not let yourself get interrupted. 3. Find your focus. 4. Work to build a following, and your reputation. 5. Be patient. Be tenacious. Be dedicated. Success does not happen quickly. 6. Use a schedule. Be organized. 7. Finish your work. 8. Put away the “how to” books …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7856″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Siobhan Wilder, painting in progress When I was little, before I could write, I would pretend to write in cursive. I’d take a pencil and paper and draw repeated double loops like cursive f’s, and scrawl graceful wavy lumpy lines. That’s what cursive looked like. I’d pretend to …
For the last two weeks I’ve had the benefit of learning from Carlos San Millan. He is a generous painter. What took a while for me to grasp at first is now coming into form, and soon will be a V. Note. In the meantime, I wanted to send out some new painters. In the …
Excerpts from a diary Frida Kahlo kept for the last ten years of her life, published 40 years after her death. Frida marked few dates, kept no appointments or notes on personal events. Most of the pages are filled instead with her own internal mythology, an internal theater. Buy a copy of Kahlo’s Diary Image …
30 Day #salchallenge starts January 1, 2021
Once a year, the League sponsors a 30 day creative challenge open to artists everywhere, working in any media. Daily challenges will be delivered to your inbox via V. Notes starting January 1, 2021. Subscribe to V. Notes. They’re fun and they’re free!
Will there be prizes? Yes, there will be prizes.
The 30 day challenge starts soon. Who are you going to rope into doing it with you?
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