The 100 Paintings In a Year Challenge is intended for artists that are dedicated to the growth and development of their style as well as their artistic voice. The challenge also provides a means for overcoming areas in need of improvement.
The paintings should be a mix of small, medium and large pieces, some sketches, plein aire, and studio work; work from life as well as from photos. The variety is meant to push the artist out of any rut, to provide ample opportunity to create no matter what other time obligations are going on, and to challenge the artist if they do not create in one of these categories. The work can be done in any medium, but it is strongly advised that the artist consider choosing one medium in which to do the Challenge as this will help facilitate faster growth than trying to master multiple mediums.
DO NOT JUDGE the artwork! When a piece is complete, set it aside and move to the next piece of work. Learning to suspend judgement of our work is a major step forward in the development our skills.
Once committed, the expectation is that the artist will fully participate in the blog by posting on a regular basis as well as leaving encouraging comments of others' artwork through comments.
The challenge may be started at any time.
4 comments:
Hi Teri,
I don't know if this will help, but I always do my sketches on tracing paper and outline in black pen. Then I tape my tracing paper sketch onto a sunny window, tape my WC paper over that and then just trace it lightly onto the WC paper with a soft pencil.
Your sketch looks great---good luck ; ).
Thanks so much Kathy! I will try this, sounds easy enough.
Kathy's suggestion is an excellent way to go and probably the cleanest. You can also take a pencil and color in on the backside of the paper where the lines are, but be warned - it gets a bit messy.
You can make a carbon paper to use between your drawing and the paper if you think you'll be doing this a lot. I would suggest staying away from commercial carbon paper as they are LOADED and you get more graphite on the paper then you know what to do with!
If you decide you want to make your own, let me know and I'll send out the directions!
Thanks Laure. I would like the directions for the future if I would paint on a WC block. It will save me from erasing on WC paper. No hurry though as I will try Kathy's suggestion.
I can't believe I have never done this!
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