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.
8 comments:
Precious! The bird is wonderful, and so sweet in that action moment of kicking its feet through the debris. The needles are a nice sharp (pun!) contrast against the splatter and snow.
This captures a cool moment. I like the motion you captured and the detail in the needles and bird is nice. Cool observation about bird behavior too.
Well done. Your song sparrow captures both the detail and the giz of the little fellas.
...thanks, Lorrie, Kristin, and Elva! I think I might like to repaint this fellow on tan paper using gouache. I've never used it before, but I want to try.
Nice work.
...thanks, Paul!
Amazing how you captured the details in the front for the needles and the bird, but left the background so soft. The underbelly of the bird really shows a 'softness' that I would expect from his belly.
...thanks, Claire! :-)
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