Happy New Year! Today is the first day of our #30SAL Challenge. Every day for the next 30 days I’ll post a creative challenge. These challenges won’t be your typical drawing challenges. Designed to foster a wide variety of creative skills, they are not restricted to any style or genre, and medium is artist’s choice. With many of these challenges, you can draw, paint, print, collage, photograph, digitize, or sculpt a response. Our creative challenges are categorized by type:
SUNDAY: Observation
MONDAY: Composition
TUESDAY: Sequence
WEDNESDAY: See & Respond
THURSDAY: Word prompt
FRIDAY: Transcribe
SATURDAY: Wild Card
20 minutes of creative time
The goal is not a perfect art piece. The goal is 20 minutes of creative time. After 20 minutes, if you want to keep working on the project you can, but the goal is 20 minutes, and no matter what happens, 20 minutes of creative time is a win!
What’s your goal for 2022?
You don’t have to complete all 30 to be eligible to win a prize. What are your own goals for creativity this January? Will you do three a week, draw every weekday, or complete all 30? Post your goals to social media, or write a note to yourself, and put it somewhere you will see it.
Invite a friend
Think of friends or coworkers who would like to join you. Participants can be any age, anywhere in the world. Invite them to join you, and make a pact to complete your individual goals, or work together as a team. Post your individual or team pact to Instagram using #30SAL.
“I’m joining the #30SAL Challenge with @name. Watch my instagram to see 5 projects each week!”
Not on Instagram?
This year we will not be accepting submissions via email or Padlet. Sorry we won’t get to see your artworks! As soon as there’s a social media site that’s as awesome as you are, we’ll be there with you!
Prizes
Will there be prizes? Yes, there will be prizes.
1st Prize: $500 cash 2nd Prize: $250 SAL Gift Certificate 3rd Prize: $150 SAL Gift Certificate Honorable Mentions: $50 SAL Gift Certificates
Deadline for submissions: 3 days after each challenge post.
Day 1: Egg Head
Use an egg to create a self portrait
(Don’t have an egg? Don’t worry. We’re artists, not bureaucrats. Get creative!)
To be eligible for prizes, post your work to Instagram with #30sal. To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these to your post:
Anthony Eyton was born May 17, 1923. He is a British figurative painter working in the post-Impressionist tradition. He started studying art in 1941, his studies delayed by the war, and then returned to his education at the Camberwell School of Art, completing in 1950. Eyton was Head of Painting at St Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario in …
Last quarter Keith Pfeiffer and I taught a series on color. As promised, this was not a typical color theory class. Here are a few of my favorite student works from one of my favorite exercises. These paintings are made with compressed values, and some are entirely all one light/dark value. Some of them are …
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Day 1: Egg Head #30SAL
Happy New Year! Today is the first day of our #30SAL Challenge. Every day for the next 30 days I’ll post a creative challenge. These challenges won’t be your typical drawing challenges. Designed to foster a wide variety of creative skills, they are not restricted to any style or genre, and medium is artist’s choice. With many of these challenges, you can draw, paint, print, collage, photograph, digitize, or sculpt a response. Our creative challenges are categorized by type:
20 minutes of creative time
The goal is not a perfect art piece. The goal is 20 minutes of creative time. After 20 minutes, if you want to keep working on the project you can, but the goal is 20 minutes, and no matter what happens, 20 minutes of creative time is a win!
What’s your goal for 2022?
You don’t have to complete all 30 to be eligible to win a prize. What are your own goals for creativity this January? Will you do three a week, draw every weekday, or complete all 30? Post your goals to social media, or write a note to yourself, and put it somewhere you will see it.
Invite a friend
Think of friends or coworkers who would like to join you. Participants can be any age, anywhere in the world. Invite them to join you, and make a pact to complete your individual goals, or work together as a team. Post your individual or team pact to Instagram using #30SAL.
“I’m joining the #30SAL Challenge with @name. Watch my instagram to see 5 projects each week!”
Not on Instagram?
This year we will not be accepting submissions via email or Padlet. Sorry we won’t get to see your artworks! As soon as there’s a social media site that’s as awesome as you are, we’ll be there with you!
Prizes
Will there be prizes? Yes, there will be prizes.
1st Prize: $500 cash
2nd Prize: $250 SAL Gift Certificate
3rd Prize: $150 SAL Gift Certificate
Honorable Mentions: $50 SAL Gift Certificates
Deadline for submissions: 3 days after each challenge post.
Day 1: Egg Head
Use an egg to create a self portrait
(Don’t have an egg? Don’t worry. We’re artists, not bureaucrats. Get creative!)
To be eligible for prizes, post your work to Instagram with #30sal. To find more followers for your page, you can cut/paste these to your post:
#30sal #egghead #funny #selfportrait #funnyselfportrait #funnyportrait #vnotes #creativechallenge #januarychallenge #drawingchallenge #drawing #art #sketch #artchallenge #artist #draw #artistsoninstagram #sketchbook #instaart #artwork #drawingoftheday #dailydrawing #inkdrawing #drawingsketch #artoftheday #creativity
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