Here we are entering the 12th month of the Every Day Drawing Challenge. 334 drawings on the iPad since January 1. I have learned so much about mobile/digital art making, including which apps and stylus works best for me and the best subject matter to work with. I have discovered that I like direct painting with “oils” in ArtRage, yet I also like the softer “watercolor” approach, underpainting then outlining with “pencil”. The Every Day Drawing Challenge has been a great learning experience which may take on a new look during the next month.
My classes and I are so lucky to have been given a 3D printer recently! It is primarily funded through MakerBot (the manufacturer), with the balance being crowd sourced through DonorsChoose (see our campaign here). A fellow art educator and a local contractor contributed the balance. Thank you Laura from Norfolk Middle School and Roger of Boulanger and Sons for helping to fund our 3D printer!
The 3D printer was delivered on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and needless to say, I haven’t even had time to open the box! Along with learning how to use the printer, I expect the even bigger challenge will be in learning the apps to use to create the specs for the 3D printer. I think the Every Day Drawing Challenge will be a good way to experiment with this and learn these apps. I’m not yet sure how to create something that can be shared on Instagram to feed to Twitter and Facebook, but that is one of the objectives for learning the 3D design apps. Anyway, stay tuned and wish me luck!
To follow are November’s Every Day Challenge Drawings. Click on an image to see it enlarged and scroll through as a slide show:
November 1 (#304): Draw something that you can tie
App: ArtRage & SketchbookX
Congrats to Johnny and Brianna, who are tying the knot tomorrow…let the celebrations begin!
November 2 (#305): Draw something huge
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor –
Elephant ears are huge…
November 3 (#306): Draw a snack
App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil –
Man cannot live on airline peanuts and pretzels alone…
November 4 (#307): Draw something raw
App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil –
Cucumber or raw pickle… you decide…
November 5 (#308): Draw something slippery
App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil
“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography” – Frederico Fellini
November 6 (#309): Draw something with more than 2 legs
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor & Pencil –
Birds of a feather stand together…
November 7 (#310): Draw something military
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint
Known as “Dad’s ship” in my family, aboard the USS Randolph is where my Dad served during WWII after enlisting in the Navy on his 17th birthday in 1944…
November 8 (#311): Draw something you need 2 of to make a set
App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor –
Two old shoes that I’ve had for years. Great for the art room and studio. So worn they feel like slippers…
November 9 (#311): Draw something very light
App: ArtRage Tool: Technical pen –
Light as a feather and iridescent with light, our peacocks’ feathers are very light…
November 10 (#313): Draw something you look up at from below
App: ArtRage Tool: Technical Pen –
I’m looking up at the masts and rigging of fishing ships this morning…here in New Bedford for the MassArtEd conference… ⚓️
November 11 (#314): Draw something with a knob
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint-
Pink knobs on our kitchen cabinets…what’s for supper?
November 12 (#315): Draw something under water
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor –
Our former frog, Ferguson, doubling as the Nirvana baby…
November 13 (#316): Draw a travel memory
App: ArtRage Tool: Paint –
From a trip to Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch in 2006…a chance to walk in her footsteps there…
November 14 (#317): Draw your hair up close
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint –
“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.” – William Butler Yeats
November 15 (#318): Draw something with numbers
App: ArtRage Tool: Crayon “Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it’s quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.” – Chris Van Allsburg
November 16 (#319): Draw the condiments on the table at a diner
App:ArtRage Tool: Colored Pencil –
Gosh this brings me right back to my early waitress days at Leon’s diner in Nobscot…from age 14 – 20…such hard work, so many great friends, good times, and fond memories ️
November 17 (#320): Draw something you will give away
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint –
‘Tis the season for giving…almost …ho ho ho
November 18 (#321): Draw something forbidden
App: Art Set Tool: Colored Pencil & Tissue –
We are forbidden from leaving paintbrushes unwashed and bristles down after we use them. This gives them a very bad hair day…
November 19 (#322): Draw something related to what you do
App: ProCreate Tool: Colored Pencil
smArties are a big part of my life as a middle school art teacher …
November 20 (#323): Draw something sad
App: ArtRage Tool: Paint –
John John saluting his father’s casket as it passed is one of the saddest things things I have ever seen. This drawing from a photo by Stan Stearns taken 50 years ago during JFK’s funeral procession …
November 21 (#324): Draw a garden tool
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint –
Take thy plastic spade…
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants… They are thy colours. ~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782
November 22 (#325): Draw something blue
App: ArtRage Tool:Oil Pastel
I am happy to report that our peacocks have begun to re-grow their tail feathers after losing them during the summer…just the normal molting process, but I miss the color when they’re gone…
November 23 (#326): Draw something you can keep in your pocket
App:ArtRage Tool:Oil on linen
My mama, who will be 86 on Thanksgiving, handed down her “hankies” to me and I have been collecting vintage handkerchiefs ever since. I give them to dear friends to have in hand and pocket during memorial services for lost loved ones. I share them hoping it is soothing to have something soft and pretty to clutch during sad times. Through every “hanky” I share, the love and caring of generations of strong, resilient women are shared with it … Happy birthday, Mama …
November 24 (#327): Draw something super
App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil
“It’s-a-me, Mario! Oh yeah!!” For the biggest Super Mario fan I know…David…
November 25 (#328): Draw something with buttons
App: ArtRage Tool: Paint
With hundreds of available channels, I still prefer it off…
November 26 (#329): Draw something purple
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor –
Just a little water pot growing ivy and some purple heart in the dining room window….
November 27 (#330): Draw some corn
App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor –
I never realized how teeth-like corn kernels are until tonight…
November 28 (#331): Draw your Thanksgiving table
App: ArtRage Tool: Marker
Happy Thanksgiving! Snoopy & memories by Charles M. Schultz…
November 29 (#332): Draw a pie
App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint
Pecan pie with chocolate & pretzel bits… want a piece?
November 30 (#334):Draw something from a sport you see on TV
App:ArtRage Tool:Oil Paint
It is my pleasure to close out the month with Mr. Brady…