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“.
When we first went online in February 2020, I thought it would just be for a few weeks. Now here we are 18 months later, still online. I thought online would be cold and distant. I thought there’d be no way to teach anything specific. Turns out there’s a lot we can do from our …
Some people need a little extra push to get them to sit and draw. I’m one of those people. I’m a chronic multi-tasker. I tend to be scattered, I take on too much, and whatever I’m doing I feel like I should be doing something else. One very potent and wonderful invitation to focus is …
Yesterday I said the next post would be about color, but I didn’t have time to write today, and there has been so much bad news that I wanted to put a little art in your inbox. Today is an addition to yesterday’s post about the Effects of Light, with illusions of glow produced from …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10063″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Ezra Siegel Phase 1: Make a shape, or choose a simple object. Place that simple shape inside a small rectangle and consider the space around it to make a composition. Save this. Then repeat the process, placing the same basic shape on the same sized rectangle, in a different …
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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