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???
I’ve posted so many thoughts and artists since our visit from Carlos San Millan that you would be reasonable to think I was about finished. This may be difficult to believe, but I still have more to post. Way, way more to post. Many of you who were in the workshops said that you felt …
A selection from Keith Pfeiffer’s Tiny Paintings Class Another word for Tiny Paintings is Thumbnails. Thumbnail sketches are often used to test out ideas, and making adjustments before launching into a big project. These itty bitty paintings are a series of low pressure color and composition experiments. This is one in a series of posts …
I never stop being inspired by art and ideas—they’re always there, bouncing around on my desk, waiting to be shared. After a long pause of wishing I were publishing, I’m tentatively restarting. V. Notes will be different this time: smaller, more in-the-moment—little ideas pulled straight from my desk, shared when time and energy allow. A …
Another collection of favorites from the personal inspiration files of Carlos San Millan. At first glance, this looks like a figurative study with the figure divided into abstracted patches of flat color. For some of the areas, paint has been scraped away, so that the color underneath can be seen through the top layer. San …
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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