From Oscar the Grouch to Matisse – Another Month of the Every Day Drawing Challenge
Summer, summer, summer…has been great for me and the Every Day Drawing Challenge. Without the hectic schedule of the school year, I have had more time to work with drawing apps and investigate different techniques. ArtRage continues to be my favorite app and I have fallen in love with the oil paint tool this month. With the option of layers, it is easy to manipulate the “paint” to either blend or sit on top of previous paint. I have been using my Adonit Jot stylus exclusively and have taken to wearing a glove with the finger tips cut off (like a texter) on just one hand (like Michael Jackson) so I can lean my hand on the iPad for stability while drawing and the app doesn’t think it should make a mark there. This is the most like drawing with traditional media and it feels right.
My images this month were generated with a nod to nostalgia and summer in particular. Within each drawing is reflection on the past or present. Sometimes, there is deep feeling or memory in what I draw, though it would be hard for the viewer to see it. I am always aware of my pre-adolescent audience on Instagram and keep my drawings age appropriate. The process of drawing and the time spent is cathartic and rejuvenating at the same time, often like meditation or prayer. It calms me and helps me process events and issues. That all sounds very heavy, but it’s not at all. Sometimes a drawing of peanuts is just about a drawing of peanuts, for instance. I hope you enjoy them.
July 1 (#181): Draw a trash can
App: Artists Touch
“How can you draw a trash can without Oscar the Grouch?” asked my 23 year old son, remembering one of his best Halloween costumes ever…
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artiststouchapp #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #arted #artsed
July 2 (#182): Draw a truck
App: ArtistsTouch
A “SOLD” sign and a smile… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artiststouchapp #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #artsed #arted #arteducation #toyotatacoma
July 3 (#183): Draw something dangerous
App: ArtistsTouch
Welcome to summer at the beach in New England. Mwahahaha!
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artiststouchapp #digitalart #arted #artsed #arteducation #ipadpainting #ipadart #sharkshaveteeth
July 4 (#184): Draw a bench
App: Artists Touch
Celebrating our nation’s independence and remembering that freedom isn’t free…
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artiststouchapp #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #artsed #arted #july4 #fourthofjuly
July 5 (#185): Draw a cat
App: ArtistsTouch Tool: Charcoal
Siberian white tiger. Meow…
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artiststouchapp #digitalart #arted #artsed #monalisaliveshere #ipadart #ipadpainting #tiger
July 6 (#186): Draw something you have always wanted
App: Artists Touch Using paintbrush plus Sketchbook Express to put Mona in the driver’s seat –
I’ve always wanted an Alfa Romeo Spider convertible. In red, of course…⛽
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artiststouchapp #sketchbookexpress #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #monalisaliveshere #arted #artsed #alfaromeo #fun
July 7 (#187): Draw a fan
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor and crayon –
At 90 degrees for several days in a row here in New England, we need these to stay cool…
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #artsed #arted #monalisaliveshere #heatwave
July 8 (#188): Draw a peanut
App: Artists Touch
Summer camp, 1968 – “Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut last night…”
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artiststouchapp #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #artsed #arted #summercampsongs #peanutlove
July 9 (#188): Draw a shaver or razor
App: Art Rage Tool: Pencil
So glad to be back using ArtRage. Gave Artists Touch app a fair chance…but no layers and limited tools makes it frustrating…
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #arted #artsed #closeshave
July 10 (#190): Draw your palette
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor –
Part of one of my watercolor palettes
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #digitalart #artrage #ipadart #ipadpainting #artsed #arted
July 11 (#191): Draw paper money
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor and pencil-
Nothing like a roll of Franklins…(as if I would know what that is like!)…
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #artsed #arted #mta #teachersalary #maea
July 12 (#192): Draw something that floats
App: ArtRage Tool: Crayon –
There was one summer in particular where my son had every manner of toy sailboat possible…⛵⚓
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #artsed #arted #summer #monalisaliveshere
July 13 (#193): Draw a close-up part of something
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel –
A close -up part of a giant piece of painted wood I saw today at Brimfield…
#artrage #eddc #digitalart #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadart #ipadpainting #brimfield
July 15 (#195): Draw a fork
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel –
So much potential in a fork…yes?
July 16 (#196): Draw rope
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor and Pencil –
I don’t really believe in ‘directions’ in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that’s all. – Graham Nelson
#everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artrage #digitalart #monalisaliveshere #ipadart #ipadpainting
July 17 (#197): Draw a remote control
App: ArtRage Tool: Marker –
My Vdub key remote…
#eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #digitalart #volkswagen
July 18 (#198): Draw some noodles
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil painting –
Pool noodles for the heat wave – 99 degrees tomorrow #eddc #digitalart #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #ipadart #ipadpainting #heatwave
July 19 (#199) Draw a toe
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor and Pencil –
My granddaughter’s tanned feet and patriotic toes of summer…
#eddc #artrage #digitalart #everydaydrawingchallenge
#ipadart #ipadpainting #arted #americastrong
July 20 (#200): Draw something lucky
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor and Pencil –
It is said in some Native American beliefs that dragonflies are a symbol of renewal after a time of great hardship. In Japan, dragonflies are symbols of courage, strength, and happiness. Some people believe that having a dragonfly land on you will bring you seven years of good luck… #eddc
#everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #dragonfly
July 21 (#201): Draw a stapler
App: ArtRage Tool: Marker –
Whether putting up a bulletin board, hanging art for the annual art show, or stretching a canvas, nothing beats my Arrow JT-21 staple gun… #eddc #mta #everydaydrawingchallenge #digitalart #ipadart #jt21 #ipadpainting #arrowstapler
July 22 (#202): Draw a cookie
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor –
To quote a most famous certain blue monster, “Coooookieeee!”…
#eddc #artrage #digitalart #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadart #ipadpainting #cookiemonster #yummers
July 23 (#203): Draw a glass of juice
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint The Taoist sees that the glass is both half empty and half full, that neither half could exist without the other, requiring a point of balance in order to maintain equilibrium in the universe, and therefore, are merely two mirror images of the same realistic concept, so in the purity of absolute truth the glass is neither half full or half empty, the glass simply IS…
#eddc #artrage #digitalart #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadart #ipadpainting #taoisms
July 25 (#205): Draw a soda can
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint –
Fanta Grape was a big treat when I was a kid, offered at cook-outs and family gatherings, and only in the summertime …
#eddc #artrage #digitalart #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadart #ipadpainting #fantagrape #summer
July 26 (#126): Draw something familiar to you that you know is called something else in another region
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint –
Sprinkles by any other name would taste the same as Jimmies…in New England they are jimmies, across the rest of the US they are sprinkles… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #summer
July 27 (#207): Draw a shell
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint –
If you come to my house in July, you will see this bucket of shells that we gathered at Wheeler Beach, along with 4 others like it on our front porch. If you come to my house in January you will see them there, too, because in the heart of winter these shells give me hope as they remind me that after winter there is spring and after spring there is summer…❄ #eddc #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #nofilter #summer #pirate #shells
July 28 (#208): Draw something out of place
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – Coming upon a pencil box like this immediately causes panic in me…✏ #eddc #artrage #digitalart #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadart #ipadpainting #arted #rainbow #color
July 29 (#209): Draw a shadow
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – the shadow of a lily from a photo I took a couple of weeks ago… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadart #ipadpainting #digitalart #artrage #summer
July 30 (#210): Draw some socks
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what girls are made of. Snips and snails and puppy dog tales, that’s what boys are made of….
#eddc #digitalart #artrage #nofilter #ipadart #ipadpainting #babies
July 31 (#211): Draw an everyday object in the style of an artist you admire
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint
A bottle of peacock feathers in the style of ???
#eddc #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #nofilter #matisse
And with this post, so begins a new month. I have to admit that I find excitement in seeing the new list and scanning it for tasks that are especially motivating. Here is the list of challenges for August:
August
Have fun with this! Post them on Facebook or Instagram so we can all enjoy them….