People posted hundreds of drawings 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.
Those who hadn’t fallen off the wagon really seemed to hit a stride on week 3. It was very difficult to narrow it down! Below are a few of our favorites.
Interview an Object
The challenge for this day was to find out what a common object had to say about itself or its life.
Scott BarrettGil MendezG MuslandVanessaTegan WymanAlexia CameronE. ZackeyLucia FoxS. Enriquez
Ears
The next two challenges were to draw your ears – once from feel, and then the next day from observation. An additional challenge was to use the drawing to make a monotype. We got a lot of ears!
Delores HauglandE Zackey
Karen Bell
Eileen S
S Enriquez
Gil Mendez
Jess Ray
Jonah Connolly Cruz
Leila Dawn
Karl Dyer
Martha Campo
Lyall Wallerstedt
Lyall Wallerstedt
Mary Jo Maute
Mimi Boothby
Scott Barrett
Shelley Weiss
S Enriquez
Tress Connolly
Gill Mendez
Martin Luther King Day
Follow the rhythm of the words, pauses and phrases in Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and find marks and shapes that look like the speech sounds. We received a lot of very creative responses to this, but one in particular stood out: this paper sculpture by Colleen Tuell. Gorgeous and concise work.
Colleen Tuell
Those are some of our favorites from Week 3 of our 30SAL Challenge. It was really hard to narrow it down! 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“.
Posted tomorrow: Smatchet/Menge, Finish the Feet, and Scientists discovered a …what???
Our printmaking instructor Nikki Barber has been printing posters in her basement for protest rallies and marches. “I feel responsible to stand up for my friends who are Black and my friends who are Brown, since I white-pass so easily, but am not white.” Nikki has been active in the social, political, and art in …
“Drawing this way is addictive. I just want to keep addressing every part of my drawing. Time flies. I can’t stop. Been looking at drawings all night and can’t wait to go back tomorrow. I am already sad that tomorrow is our last day.” – Our Provost Lendy Hensley talking about what it’s like to …
“Almost everyone can remember in grade school art class placing a sheet of paper over the face of a coin or some other textured object and rubbing it with a crayon. I employed this same method – known as frottage – to create the following portraits. For Beckett’s likeness, I had embossed plates made of …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9204″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Yesterday I posted a fragment of a sculpture and asked you to guess when it was made and who made it. I worded my question to be misleading by asking specifically “who” and “what year.” Some of the guesses I received were: Brancusi, 1952? Isamu Noguchi? Henry Moore late …
30SAL Faves: Week 3, Part 1
People posted hundreds of drawings 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
Those who hadn’t fallen off the wagon really seemed to hit a stride on week 3. It was very difficult to narrow it down! Below are a few of our favorites.
Interview an Object
The challenge for this day was to find out what a common object had to say about itself or its life.
Ears
The next two challenges were to draw your ears – once from feel, and then the next day from observation. An additional challenge was to use the drawing to make a monotype. We got a lot of ears!
Martin Luther King Day
Follow the rhythm of the words, pauses and phrases in Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and find marks and shapes that look like the speech sounds. We received a lot of very creative responses to this, but one in particular stood out: this paper sculpture by Colleen Tuell. Gorgeous and concise work.
Those are some of our favorites from Week 3 of our 30SAL Challenge. It was really hard to narrow it down! 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“.
Posted tomorrow: Smatchet/Menge, Finish the Feet, and Scientists discovered a …what???
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