August was a month for traveling and making drawings in hotel rooms for the Every Day Drawing Challenge. The first drawing of the month was done during a “Return to your Roots” road trip with my mother as we visited her childhood home and college. It was incredibly nostalgic for her and very sentimental for me, as I had been to these places and visited the same people when I was a child in the company of my seven siblings and my late father.
Another trip was to Florida to see some of our grandkids. I found myself again making drawings in the hotel room only with the sound of the ocean in the background this time. The Every Day Drawing Challenge actually felt like a challenge! Although I love to draw and thoroughly enjoy the process, in Florida the challenge was to remember to get the drawing done. Relaxation = no schedules, except for the Every Day Drawing Challenge! One of my favorites, though, is the drawing of the ocean with the soundtrack of the waves crashing. Relaxation also = creativity. A chance for the brain to stretch out a little bit.
Here are the Every Day Drawing Challenges for the month of August – if you click on one of them, you may view all of them as a slideshow:
- August 1 (#212): Draw a mirror image App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor & Colored Pencil – Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror – Khalil Gibran #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #digitalart #artrage #ipadart #ipadpainting #mama
- August 2 (#213): Draw a microwave App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – Hey good lookin’…whatcha got cookin? #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting
- August 3 (#214): Draw something that represents a hobby of yours App: Artists Touch Tool: Paint – When I’m home I take a lot of photos of birds…this year we had a lot of bluebirds in the yard… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artiststouch #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting
- August 4 (#215): Draw your thumb App: ArtRage Stylus: Adonit Jot Tool: Watercolor & Pencil – Wearing one glove (like Michael Jackson) with the fingertips cut off (like a texter) so the iPad doesn’t sense the side of my hand…✏ #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #adonitjot #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #arted #ipadsintheartroom
- August 5 (#216): Draw your inner critic App: ArtRage Tool: Colored Pencil – My inner critic is a grumpy cat… #eddc #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadpainting #grumpycat
- August 6 (#217): Draw an umbrella App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Quick little sketch based on the photo a friend posted on Facebook… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #summer #monalisaliveshere
- August 7 (#218): Draw a knife App: ArtRage Tool: Metallic paint, watercolor – An ordinary kitchen knife served with grilled Gulf shrimp and fried plantains…yummers! #eddc #Floridagoodness #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #Mexicobeach ##mangomarleys #yummers
- August 8 (#219): Draw a window App: ArtRage Tool: Oil paint on iPhone 5 – Airplane window heading south yesterday…flying over the clouds…✈ #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #digitalart #iphone5 #iphone5art #gremlinonthewing
- August 9 (#220): Draw the moon App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – I see the moon and the moon sees me… #eddc #artrage #digitalart #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadart #ipadpainting #bellaluna
- August 10 (#221): Draw a hand held game App: ArtRage Tool: watercolor and pencil – This is as close to a hand held game I get…amusement and entertainment and so much more… #eddc #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #iphone5 #everydaydrawingchallenge #monalisaliveshere
- August 11 (#222): Draw your favorite drawing tool App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – My two favorite authentic feeling tools for drawing on the iPad – the #adonitjotclassic and the #sensubrush … #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #digitalart #artrage #ipadart #ipadpainting
- August 12 (#223): Draw your favorite sound App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – Listen: @http://soundcloud.com/alice-gentili/crests-troughs/s-GhMfZ #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #gulfcoast #soundcloud #monalisaliveshere
- August 13 (223): Draw a jug or pitcher App:ArtRage Tool:Oil pastel – A picture or a pitcher sketched at 10,000 feet…✈ #eddc #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #southwestair #everydaydrawingchallenge #monalisaliveshere
- August 14 (#225): Draw something sticky App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – One glorious piece of super sticky caramel corn… #eddc #digitalart #artrage #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadart #ipadpainting #monalisaliveshere
- August 15 (#226): Draw a screw App: ArtRage Tool: Oil pastel – A simple screw using metallic colors… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #digitalart #artrage #ipadart #ipadpainting #art #screw #monalisaliveshere
- August 16 (#227): Draw a tote bag App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil and crayon – Too soon I’ll be using tote bags from my favorite bookstore in the world to carry my stuff to school … #eddc #art #digitalart #artrage #ipadart #ipadpainting #strand #everydaydrawingchallenge #monalisaliveshere
- August 17 (#228): Draw what makes you laugh App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – This kid right here makes me laugh…my son, Dylan…#eddc #art #everydaydrawingchallenge #digitalart #artrage #ipadart #ipadpainting #laugh #monalisaliveshere
- August 18 (#229): Draw a summer joy App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – Summer afternoon + Backyard hammock + Kindle = Joy … #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #digitalart #artrage #ipadart #ipadpainting #art #summer #monalisaliveshere
- August 19 (#230): Draw a map App: ArtRage Tool: Marker – This is a map of my day yesterday… #eddc #artrage #art #everydaydrawingchallenge #digitalart #ipadart #prezi #ipadpainting #monalisaliveshere
- August 20 (#231): Draw your junk drawer App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – My junk drawer is really not all that junky … honest… #eddc #art #mobileart #digitalart #ipadart #artrage #ipadpainting #everydaydrawingchallenge #monalisaliveshere
- August 21 (#232): Draw the last thing you bought App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – Growing up in a family with 8 kids, we went through 2 of these a day. After work , my father always came through the door carrying milk. My family goes through just 2 a week… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #digitalart #mobileart #art #artrage #ipadart #ipadpainting #gotmilk #monalisaliveshere
- August 22 (#233): Draw your favorite drink App: ArtRage Tool: Marker – At 7am my favorite drink is coffee…especially in my peacock feather cup… #eddc #art #mobileart #ipadart #ipadpainting #artrage #digitalart #monalisaliveshere
- August 23 (#234): Draw something that belongs to someone else App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil and Watercolor – “Eyes of gentianellas azure, staring, winking at the skies.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning #art #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #monalisaliveshere #ipadart #ipadpainting #mobileart #digitalart
- August 24 (#235): Draw a butterfly App: Sketchbook Express Tool: Marker – My back-to-school hat is on so I’m using Sketchbook Express, the free drawing app that we use in class. This is a lesson for exploring symmetry and shape and authentic math integration… #eddc #digitalart #mobileart #ipadpainting #ipadart #commoncore #artmath #artsed #arted #ipadsintheartroom #mathart #everydaydrawingchallenge #monalisaliveshere
- August 25: (#236): Draw the palm of your left hand App: ArtRage Tool: Paint – This is my morning glory… #eddc #mobileart #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #everydaydrawingchallenge #monalisaliveshere
- August 26 (#237): Draw the view from under your bed App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil, paint, marker – Back-to-school today. Flip-flops will be here when I get home… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #mobileart #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #monalisaliveshere
- August 27 (#238): Draw something from a first aid kit App: ArtRage Tool: Paint – Ace bandages are so very handy, aren’t they? … #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #digitalart #mobileart #art #ipadart #ipadpainting #monalisaliveshere
- August 28 (#239): Draw something that scared you App: ArtRage Tool: Paint – The threatened decline and eventual extinction of Twinkies was pretty darn scary…don’t you think? #jk #haha #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #ipadart #ipadpainting #mobileart #twinkies #monalisaliveshere #art
- August 29 (#240): Draw your favorite pencil App: ArtRage Tool: Paint – I’m crazy about these pencils. The bad news: Eberhard Faber stopped making them around 1998, which was (believe it or not) devastating to artists, musicians, and anyone who liked a soft, dark pencil. The good news: Another company started making them again in 2010. They are now called Palomino Blackwing 602. Kind of like the Twinkies story, isn’t it? ✏ #eddc #mobileart #ipadart #ipadpainting #art #digitalart #blackwing602 #monalisaliveshere #everydaydrawingchallenge
- August 30 (#241): Draw what you see from your kitchen window App: ArtRage Tool: Paint – Morning Glories reaching up to the light are what I see outside my window… #eddc #artrage #mobileart #digitalart #ipadart #art #ipadpainting #summer #everydaydrawingchallenge #monalisaliveshere
- August 31 (242): Draw a figurine or tchotchke that you have App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil – My son made this ceramic cow in middle school art class a decade ago…I expect it will grace our dining room for several more decades (unless I MOO-ve it)… #eddc #moo #arted #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #mobileart #clayisfun #artrage #art #everydaydrawingchallenge #monalisaliveshere
Now we are back to school and new routines are developing. I am excited to get this year’s classes on board with the Every Day Drawing Challenge. I am looking for a platform where my students and I can all share our drawings online to the same page, folder, etc. This would work on my class Facebook page, but my students are too young for Facebook. Instagram would be ideal because many are on Instagram, but thus far, Instagram does not let you set up a board for multiple users. Please keep me posted if you come across anything that might work.
Here is the task list for the month of September. Join me please!