People are still posting work for our 30 day January challenge, in which artists are invited to respond to a daily prompt posted on our V. Notes blog. Unlike other drawing challenges, these prompts are wildly varied, open to non-typical materials around us, and are designed to feed a broad spectrum of creative skills at all levels of art making.
We’ve received hundreds of great submissions. It was very difficult to narrow it down! Below are a few of our favorites.
Argus-Eyed
First, there was one submission that must have been under the sofa when we posted week 1 favorites, but this time it caught our “eye”. This vigilant friend is from Tegan Wyman, in response to “Argus-eyed”, from Greek mythology Argos, the name of a watchman with a hundred eyes. More Argus eyed creations are posted on SAL Challenge Faves Week 1.
Tegan Wyman, Argus-eyed
Scribble Panels
This prompt was to scribble, then cut the paper into random panels and respond to the marks on the panels.
Esme Nelson
Sharon Wherland
Margaret Gleig
Tress Connolly
Masterfork
The January 9th challenge was to recreate a masterwork, using only food.
S. Enriquez, “Arrangement in Rice and Chocolate No 1”
Paul Klee
MP Mansfield
Georgia O’Keeffe “Winter Road”
Richard Tuttle “Pink Oval Landscape”
Corinne “Sausage Oval Landscape”
Colleen Tuell’, Vincent Van Gogh’s Russet Shoes
Joseph and Mary by mefreeart
Cross Contour
Artists were invited to draw something round and something flat with cross contours. These were gorgeous.
G Musland
S. Enriquez
Karl Dyer
String Theory
Drop a piece of string, and draw the space around it.
Molly Maloney
Gil Mendez
What are you looking at?
The challenge on January 12 was to imagine what Courbet was looking at.
(no name given)
Karl Dyer
S. Enriquez
Instructions for drawing #118
January 13, people responded to an invitation given to participants in the late 70’s: instructions for a wall drawing by Sol LeWitt. Our participants took a few liberties, but we didn’t mind.
“On a wall surface, any continuous stretch of wall, using a hard pencil, place fifty points at random. The points should be evenly distributed over the area of the wall. All of the points should be connected by straight lines.”
E. Zackey
Islegirl
Megan Carroll
Scrooch
On January 14, artists responded to the vocabulary word scrooch; to crouch or huddle. These were fun!
Those are our favorites for week 2 of our 30SAL Challenge. It was a tough edit, and we’re sure we missed some good ones. We’ll post our week 3 favorites soon! Prizes will be awarded from the best of the best after we post week 4.
To see all of 30 of our January challenge posts, search our V. Notes blog for “30SAL Challenge“.
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30SAL Challenge Faves: Week 2
People are still posting work for our 30 day January challenge, in which artists are invited to respond to a daily prompt posted on our V. Notes blog. Unlike other drawing challenges, these prompts are wildly varied, open to non-typical materials around us, and are designed to feed a broad spectrum of creative skills at all levels of art making.
MONDAY: Design/Composition
TUESDAY: Memory/Imagination
WEDNESDAY: See & Respond
THURSDAY: Vocabulary
FRIDAY: Comics
SATURDAY: Experimental
SUNDAY: Observation
We’ve received hundreds of great submissions. It was very difficult to narrow it down! Below are a few of our favorites.
Argus-Eyed
First, there was one submission that must have been under the sofa when we posted week 1 favorites, but this time it caught our “eye”. This vigilant friend is from Tegan Wyman, in response to “Argus-eyed”, from Greek mythology Argos, the name of a watchman with a hundred eyes. More Argus eyed creations are posted on SAL Challenge Faves Week 1.
Scribble Panels
This prompt was to scribble, then cut the paper into random panels and respond to the marks on the panels.
Masterfork
The January 9th challenge was to recreate a masterwork, using only food.
Cross Contour
Artists were invited to draw something round and something flat with cross contours. These were gorgeous.
String Theory
Drop a piece of string, and draw the space around it.
What are you looking at?
The challenge on January 12 was to imagine what Courbet was looking at.
Instructions for drawing #118
January 13, people responded to an invitation given to participants in the late 70’s: instructions for a wall drawing by Sol LeWitt. Our participants took a few liberties, but we didn’t mind.
“On a wall surface, any continuous stretch of wall, using a hard pencil, place fifty points at random. The points should be evenly distributed over the area of the wall. All of the points should be connected by straight lines.”
Scrooch
On January 14, artists responded to the vocabulary word scrooch; to crouch or huddle. These were fun!
Those are our favorites for week 2 of our 30SAL Challenge. It was a tough edit, and we’re sure we missed some good ones. We’ll post our week 3 favorites soon! Prizes will be awarded from the best of the best after we post week 4.
To see all of 30 of our January challenge posts, search our V. Notes blog for “30SAL Challenge“.
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