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
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Today is the Memory/Imagination day of our 30 Day Creative Challenge. Look at “The Desperate Man” by Gustave Courbet. Your challenge today is to imagine what he’s looking at, and recreate that. Medium is artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, assemblage, assemble a diorama, or dress in drag. Set a timer for 20 minutes. When the timer chimes, continue if you wish, …
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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