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:
What a lovely composition and great mix of colors.
Can I hire you to tell "Painting quickly helps me focus on what really is important" to my classes?!! I encourage them to use a timer so as not to fiddle and futz around and they think I'm nuts!
Well done, Brinda!
Wow Brinda, these veggies just dancing their way from the fridge to the dinner table! Great fresh work of art. Thanks, Irina
This captures the freshness that watercolor has to offer. I'm learning that time limitations can be very useful .... this coming from someone who has spend two weeks on one watercolor painting.
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