Week 12 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! I'm still chugging along through this book! If you haven't started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post will be open all year so be sure to check back to see what other fellow creatives have made with this week's exercises. Read more about the challenge here.
Without further ado, here are my 7 for this week… the good, bad, and ugly!
#78 Decorate the horses. This is actually the first exercise that I saw Lorna do an Instagram video on before the book was released. I tried really hard not to go look that video up and get some inspiration! I used white colored pencil to do my designs and I tried different shapes and variations. Pretty much just small changes between the horses to see what difference that would make.
#79 Document a conversation. I give up. I am terrible at these. I can never remember interesting conversations! The only thing I remember is how much people shouldn't talk to me in the morning before coffee!
#80 Draw an object with your non-dominant hand. For me, that meant I needed to draw with my left hand. I decided to draw my slim line lamp from the Daylight company. Overall it's not awful, but pen control was so hard! The idea is to then really look at the object you need to draw rather than going on auto pilot. I actually think if I wanted to draw objects, this would be a good exercise to repeat.
#81 Fill the page with butterflies. So I didn't quite fill the entire page, but I drew 5 of them (3 were pre-drawn on the page). Most of my butterflies turned out like the purple one. Actually 99% of the butterflies I ever draw look like that. I tried to expand my butterfly drawing horizons with different wings and colors, but then you get the one that looks like a tooth on the bottom left. Butterflies are not my thing.
#82 Blind draw a lamp. So as I drew the only lamp I own in exercise 80, I figured that would be okay to draw in this exercise too! Blind drawing is when you look at the object and do not peek at the paper until you are done! I kind of cheated, I looked to help place where I should draw the base of the lamp. This exercise is really hard. I actually have memories of doing blind drawings as kids for fun and laughing at the hilarious drawings we came up with. I don't think I've improved since then.
#83 Add color and patterns to the flowers. This was my favorite exercise this week. Fill in spaces with patterns... that sounds suspiciously like free motion quilting! My favorite flower that I did is the green one in the lower right hand corner with the concentric circles as petals. I think that the lines fill in the uneven spaces evenly.
#84 Draw somewhere you have visited. I've been toying with the idea of doing skylines lately and on my flight home this past week I was able to take a bunch of photos of downtown. The skyline I drew here was almost like the blind drawing from up above. I was looking at the photo of the downtown skyline and drawing the outside of the buildings. Honestly I don't know if it looks anything like downtown Minneapolis, but it does just look like a generic city skyline.
Now that we've all had a good chuckle and/or grimace, I encourage you to join in the fun and expand your creative horizons too!
Get the 365 Days of Art book here! (affiliate link)
Your turn! Link up below with one or more of the exercises for this week, so exercises #78-84 for this link up!
A few reminders:
- There is no URL requirement for loading a photo, so anyone can join the fun. If you are having issues, please let me know via the contact page or comment below!
- When you link up a post, please try to support the other folks in the linky party! Let's spread the motivation and support to help everyone making progress in their own time.
- If you are making a blog post, please include a link back to my blog or grab the 365 Days of Art Challenge Button and put it on your sidebar. This way others who visit your blog can also join in on the fun!
- If you are posting to Instagram, use hashtag #365DaysOfArt and #365DaysOfArtPBQchallenge
[inlinkz_linkup id=772400 mode=1]
Need more fabric, tools or notions? Shop my affiliate links:
Amazon - Shop now!
Fat Quarter Shop - Shop now!
Fabric.com - Shop now!
Craftsy - Shop now!
