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.
Scientists Discovered a ________
Jess Ray, A New Humanoid
GMusland, Planta Cauda Motus Looks like a furry house plant, wags like a happy dog.
mefreeart, Folius infects apatelos aqua
Gil Mendez, Flagellate: Ipsum Dioxide et Potum
Eileen S. Canum Clavus Avis Circumdatos Scientists have discovered a new species belonging to the Aves phylum. Canum Clavus Avis Circumdatos appears to maintain a symbiotic relationship with Canus Lupus Familiarus in which it will groom their paws in trade for a safe drawer in which to live. There appears to also be a smaller branch of the family that interacts with Felis Catus in a similar manner.
Mimi Boothby, Striped donkey camel thrives on a diet of plastic
Emma Nadolny, Feather-tailed Chickenmouse, Plumosacauda Pullummus. Lives in fields, forests, and sometimes barns. It’s unsure what it likes best. You may sometimes find it perched on a telephone wire, admiring the sunrise loudly.
Jane McCurley, Buos Aurum It looks like gold, it acts like a magnet, and it lives in the sky.
Karl Dyer, Northern Hexapod
Finish the Feet
Martha Campo
Colleen Tuell
Jess Ray
Emma Nadolny
Esme Nelson, Succulent Planters
Sole-full Stilts — KathyPaul
Cheryl
Lyall Wallerstedt
Eileen S. ” ‘t Ain’t No Sin”
Chamille Ireland, ‘Midnight River Walker’
Meg
Maura O’Neill, Gerbera and Pear
Mary Jo Maute, “Man leaving office”
Smatchet/Menge
Chamille IrelandGil Mendez
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“.
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My favorite painting to paint was Mud Festival Peonies. It’s large and bright, all happiness and play. This painting was a breakthrough into abstraction for me, something I’ve been wanting for a long time. It was also incredibly fun to paint! I stayed up a few nights to finish it, and I smiled all through …
Have you ever gone shopping for easels and found the options of fall-apart folding easels vs. expensive hardwood calliopes, and thought “what the heck do artists buy?” The answer might surprise you. Many painters don’t use easels at all. For my biggest paintings, two 4x4x16” pieces of wood service nicely. They lift a painting off …
Demos Master sumi-e painter Angie Dixon demonstrates the bamboo joint, bone, and leaf brush strokes. Dixon says a great sumi-e painting combines a variety of wet and dry, light and dark, thick and thin brush strokes. She says you can’t fix a brush stroke, but you can enhance it. Beginning Sumi-e Student Work [gallery …
30SAL Faves: Week 3, Part 2
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.
Scientists Discovered a ________
Looks like a furry house plant, wags like a happy dog.
Scientists have discovered a new species belonging to the Aves phylum. Canum Clavus Avis Circumdatos appears to maintain a symbiotic relationship with Canus Lupus Familiarus in which it will groom their paws in trade for a safe drawer in which to live. There appears to also be a smaller branch of the family that interacts with Felis Catus in a similar manner.
thrives on a diet of plastic
Lives in fields, forests, and sometimes barns. It’s unsure what it likes best. You may sometimes find it perched on a telephone wire, admiring the sunrise loudly.
It looks like gold,
it acts like a magnet,
and it lives in the sky.
Finish the Feet
Smatchet/Menge
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“.
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