In February I organized a daily art challenge that included 20 amazing artists. Every day (except Sunday) was "love" themed art with a mix of free-style and detailed challenges. The Month of Love turned out to be a great exercise with some truly amazing art resulting from everyone, especially considering we rarely spent more than an hour on each piece. There is a ton of beautiful art up there- hundreds of pieces in fact and I urge you to go marvel at what these artist can do in such a short time. Here are some of my favorite pieces I came up with:
Below is one of my favorite challenges. It was a multiple day challenge leading up to Valentines Day and was meant to be an autobiographical love story. I chose my first "boyfriend". Here is the full story:
In 6th grade Chris started walking me home from school and became my first boyfriend.
Chris and I talked on the phone a few times.
Then one day, I waited for Chris to meet me after school and he didn't show up. I was a little bit worried but convinced myself that he was just sick or something. However when I called his house later, he wasn't home and he didn't meet me the day after that either...
Later that week, I found out he had been walking Misty Powell home from School. He was no longer my boyfriend.
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| "Love Song Shuffle" Challenge: Ruby Tuesday by The Rolling Stones oil |
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| "Love is Blind" Challenge: charcoal |
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| Freestyle Sunday - - Blue watercolor |
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| Neverending Story Love - The Childlike Empress pencil |
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| Cat Tryst watercolor |
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| Medea charcoal/digital |
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| Favorite Mug/Caffeine Love oil |
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| I love my job - life sketch of James Gurney at NHIA demo pencil |
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| "Mating Rituals" Challenge: charcoal |
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| "I love you guys" - Portrait of the MoL artists challenge Jeanine Henderson (who designed our layout) oil |
In 6th grade Chris started walking me home from school and became my first boyfriend.
Chris and I talked on the phone a few times.
He even came over once to play on my jungle-gym with me.
When he gave me a big, purple ring from a cracker-jack box, I knew it was serious. I mean, our names were sort of the same so it was clearly meant to be.
Then one day, I waited for Chris to meet me after school and he didn't show up. I was a little bit worried but convinced myself that he was just sick or something. However when I called his house later, he wasn't home and he didn't meet me the day after that either...
Later that week, I found out he had been walking Misty Powell home from School. He was no longer my boyfriend.
- The End -
See All my Month of Love work here