Every day this January we’ll post a creative challenge to our V. Notes blog. Subscribers will receive these posts in their inbox.
Designed to foster a wide variety of creative skills, our challenges are not restricted to any style or genre, and medium is artist’s choice. 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 min of creative time
The daily goal is not a perfect art piece. The goal is 20 minutes of creative time, as often in January as you can. 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 success!
Prizes
Every week we’ll pick our faves and post them. If your piece is chosen, you’ll automatically win a $50 gift certificate. You don’t have to complete all 30 to be eligible to win a prize. With every artwork you post, you enter to win. The more you post, the greater chance you’ll have of winning. So post away! There’s no limit to how many prizes you can win this January.
What do you say? You up for giving it a try?
Today’s Challenge: Haptic Self Portrait
Haptic: relating to the sense of touch. Synonym for tactile.
Without looking at either your face or your paper, trace the contours of your face with the fingertips of your non-dominant hand while the other hand records your observations on paper with pencil or charcoal. Don’t worry about getting features in the right place. It’s normal to have multiple eyes, and a mouth off to the side. That’s totally ok! Consider describing softness with soft marks, coarseness with hard marks, subtle details with light marks, deep insets with darker marks, etc. Describe your face, your hair, the collar of your shirt, anything you want. Keep your attention on the surface contours, and move slowly with your hands in sync.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #hapticselfportrait
Can you guess the color? It’s just delicious fun to watch paint get mixed. Painters, notice how long it takes. It’s easy to get impatient with this part of the process when we’re painting, thinking the mix should instantly be mixed so you could get on with applying the next brush strokes, but really what good is the application …
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I chose the clip above for Kerry James Marshall’s thoughts about how identifying as a Black artist is not a real choice, because only white artists are not burdened by the problems of race. Then the paintings of Black artists in the ‘Being an Artist” video (above) led me to seek out more of Marshall’s …
Day 1: Haptic Self Portrait #30SAL
Welcome to the 30SAL Creative Challenge!
Broaden your creative skills
Every day this January we’ll post a creative challenge to our V. Notes blog. Subscribers will receive these posts in their inbox.
Designed to foster a wide variety of creative skills, our challenges are not restricted to any style or genre, and medium is artist’s choice. Our creative challenges are categorized by type:
20 min of creative time
The daily goal is not a perfect art piece. The goal is 20 minutes of creative time, as often in January as you can. 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 success!
Prizes
Every week we’ll pick our faves and post them. If your piece is chosen, you’ll automatically win a $50 gift certificate. You don’t have to complete all 30 to be eligible to win a prize. With every artwork you post, you enter to win. The more you post, the greater chance you’ll have of winning. So post away! There’s no limit to how many prizes you can win this January.
What do you say? You up for giving it a try?
Today’s Challenge: Haptic Self Portrait
Haptic: relating to the sense of touch. Synonym for tactile.
Without looking at either your face or your paper, trace the contours of your face with the fingertips of your non-dominant hand while the other hand records your observations on paper with pencil or charcoal. Don’t worry about getting features in the right place. It’s normal to have multiple eyes, and a mouth off to the side. That’s totally ok! Consider describing softness with soft marks, coarseness with hard marks, subtle details with light marks, deep insets with darker marks, etc. Describe your face, your hair, the collar of your shirt, anything you want. Keep your attention on the surface contours, and move slowly with your hands in sync.
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #hapticselfportrait
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
Carlotta is a German artist who suffers from facial blindness. Learn more about her experiences as an artist at https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53192821
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