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.
2 comments:
Hmmm, I may be the odd one out on this one, but I love the long vertical as I've been working in a long format sketchbook for a couple of months now and LOVE it!
What I'm not crazy about in this sketch are the black spaces on either side. I took the image into photoshop and cropped in to remove the sides. The "look" was immediately more intimate and there was no longer a desire to look anywhere but at the cattail and meadowhawk. I'll email you my crop.
As usual, Elva, great work!
...I love the tall, skinny image too. When I brought the page up, I looked at that painting first. I like the cropped image because I can see the details, but it's the fluffy cattail in the tall image that pulls me back for more.
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