This is day 5 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today’s challenge is to create something inspired by the word cacoethes. Media is artist’s choice. Can be pencil, digital collage, or assemblage live alligators.
Cacoethesnoun: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable. (kak-oh/uh-WEE-theez)
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #cacoethes
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. PANURGIC adj. Able or ready to do …
I have been sharing some of Carlos San Millan’s favorite painters, and we are nearly to the end of his list. So far I’ve posted Kim Frohsin, Mitchell Johnson, Yann Kebbi, Марина Цветаева (Marina Tsvetyeva), Sangram Majumdar, and Bato Dugarzhapov. Today is an artist who has distilled her painting all the way to the surface of the canvas. When done well, …
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Day 5: Cacoethes #30SAL
This is day 5 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here.
Today’s challenge is to create something inspired by the word cacoethes. Media is artist’s choice. Can be pencil, digital collage, or assemblage live alligators.
Cacoethes noun: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable. (kak-oh/uh-WEE-theez)
Share your drawing on Instagram with these tags: #30sal, #cacoethes
Or post to today’s Padlet page.
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