Because you wanted to see all 365 iPad drawings together in one gallery…and so did I. Here they are exactly as published. I was taking this project literally day-by-day, therefore the information I shared with the drawings changed throughout the year. I admit I got a little carried away with alpacas near the end. You’ll see…
The downloadable complete 365 day challenge list PDF can be found here: 365 Days of Every Day Drawing Challenge Prompts
All drawings property of Alice Matthews Gentili:
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- Day #1: Draw a shoe
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- Day 2: Draw a lamp – this is my desk lamp at school. We have fluorescent lights in the ceiling. I keep this lamp on my desk for when I need light while showing a video. I got it at Pier 1 for $10…such a deal – App: ArtRage
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- Day 3: Draw a Purse, wallet, or bag – App: ArtRage
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- Day #4: Draw a mug or cup – this is a mug I made as a demo to show clay slab construction and texture – App: Sketchbook Express
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- Day 5: Draw your bed Based on “The Bed in the Mirror” by Henri Matisse
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- Day 6: Draw your favorite well-loved object…or a childhood toy This is me at about 5 with my most beloved Zip the Chimp… App:ArtRage
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- Day 7: Draw a bottle, jar, or tin from the kitchen App: Sketchbook Express
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- Day 8: Draw your watch or other piece of jewelry App: Sketchbook Express Sketched with my finger on the iPad during a school committee meeting…I listen best while drawing or doodling
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- Day 9: Draw a bit of organized chaos One of the materials centers in the art room App: ArtRage w/Boxwave stylus
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- Day 10: Draw a hand or hands (or someone else’s if you like App: ArtRage From a photo of Mr. G holding one of our baby doves for my great niece Gianna to pet…
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- Day 11: Draw your glasses or sunglasses App: Sketchbook Express I needed my glasses to draw so I drew my sunglasses from a photo.
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- Day 12: Draw last night’s dinner App: Sketchbook Express Let’s just say that this is the healthiest part of last night’s dinner…
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- Day 13: Draw your phone App: Phototropedelic This is the back of my cell phone. The cover makes my iPhone 5 look like a real paintbox. I love it!
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- Day 14: Draw what you see in the morning when you get up App: Sketchbook Express It’s Monday already?
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- Day 15: Draw a tree or trees, leaves or branches App: Sketchbook Express Straight up copied from some paintings some friends did together recently. Celebrating creativity for all!
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- Day 16: Draw a favorite tool App: Sketchbook Express This is a folding measuring stick that I bought several years ago at Mass MOCA. It is a favorite tool not only because I use it all the time, but because it reminds me of my father. I would borrow my father’s tools all the time when I was a kid. He had one of these that had been my grandfather’s. I always liked it. Although that one is gone, I was happy to find this one in the museum store…
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- Day 17: Draw a musical instrument App: ArtRage using metallic oil pastel Kazoo! Although I played the piano for many years and dabbled with the guitar and even the dulcimer(!), kazoos never fail to make me feel joyous…whether in art school long ago or with my son when he was little. I kazoo…do you?
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- Day 18: Draw the view from a window of your house, apartment, office, etc. App: ArtRage with metallic oil pastel It was dark at 6am when I made this drawing. I flipped on the outside light and watched as it sparkled on the snow and gazebo…❄
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- Day 19: Draw something you’ve made App: ArtRage Tool: Crayon Mama wearing a scarf and hat that she taught me to knit. My mother is a phenomenal knitter. She tried to teach me when I was young, but I didn’t have the patience to learn. When we moved her out of my childhood home into a senior residence in 2009, I scheduled weekly knitting lessons with her so I could keep tabs on her adjustment there. Over tea and talk she taught me to knit…☕
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- Day 20: Draw something “Dad” App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil These are my father’s hands wrapped around his harmonica. Long after Alzheimer’s had stolen his ability to remember my name, he could still play his harmonica without missing a note…
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- Day 21: Draw something old, vintage, or antique… App: ArtRage Tool: Marker This is an old Mickey Mouse marionette that I’ve had for a long time. The glove is teeny-tiny, but it works great…
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- Day 22: Draw a piece of clothing App: ArtRage Tool: Brush This is Mr. G’s barn coat that he wears to work with the animals. This coat has been seen by goats, horses, llamas, alpacas, sheep, cows, pigs, prairie dogs, peacocks, turkeys, doves, chickens, and an accidental rooster or two…
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- Day 23: Draw your foot App:ArtRage Tools: Pastelle & Pencil Now why would I draw my own foot when I can draw the adorable feet of my great niece, Gianna, on the occasion of her first birthday?
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- Day 24: Draw a piece of fruit App: Sketchbook Express Thank you for making today’s task a little more fun, Mr. Warhol…
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- Day 25: Draw a drinking glass App: ArtRage According to Mr. G, being a kid in 1950 was all about cowboys. This is a milk glass cup from the set my son used when he was in his cowboy phase…45 years after Mr. G. Wait! What? Don’t know who Hopalong Cassidy is? Google it!
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- Day 26: Draw a vegetable App: ArtRage I am officially crazy about carrots….
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- Day 27: Draw a book App: Popsicolor With a desire to transport myself to a warmer time or climate today, I came up with either seed catalogs or travel books. I chose to travel…✈⛵
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- Day 28: Draw an appliance App: Sketchbook Express Flying Toasters screen savers from After Dark… Had this on my first Mac…circa 1989…
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- Day 29: Draw something architectural App: Sketchbook Express This is the bearded man keystone from the Marble Arch in London…the arch has stayed in my mind since my month of teaching in the UK in 1998…
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- Day 30: Draw a chair App: Sketchbook Express This is my studio chair. I bought it used somewhere. I love it…
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- Day 31: Draw something you collect App: ArtRage How appropriate to finish the first month of the Every Day Matters Challenge with a drawing of Mona Lisa! Stay tuned for a new list for February…
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- February 1: Draw something metallicApp: ArtRageWelcome to February …chocolate month!
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- Feb 2: Draw an eye App: ProCreate drew a husky dog’s eyes because I think they are amazing. In retrospect, I should have drawn a ground hog’s eyes not seeing it’s shadow…
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- Feb 3: Draw a fall leaf App: ArtStudio This time of year I fondly remember fall leaves and crisp not icy fall air…come on spring!
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- Feb 4: Draw a bicycle or a part of one App: ArtStudio My son on his bike when he was about 4. Safety provided by training wheels AND Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…and helmet of unusual size….:)
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- Feb 5: Draw out in public We just spent 5-10 minutes in the cafeteria drawing “out in public”… We had quite the audience 🙂
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- Feb 6: Draw some keys App: ArtStudioYou know, I have more keys than my husband, who has keys for a whole school…go figure…I love the keychain, which was a gift from a couple of twins I know…
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- Feb 7: Draw at a museum or visit http://www.googleartproject.com and draw what you see App: Sketchbook Express I went to to find a mobile by Alexander Calder. I once sat on a bench for a full hour watching a Calder mobile gently twirl as people came and went at the National Gallery of Art in DC…
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- Feb 8: Draw something you wear in winter App: ArtStudioThis is my son wearing gloves tonight on his way out the door to help his stepdad shovel…we are expecting 24+ inches of snow tonight!
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- Feb 9: Draw your toothbrush App: ProCreate I went with an old timey cartooney approach tonight…it’s just a toothbrush after all…
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- Feb 10: Draw something with folds App: Sketchbook Express These are Mr. G’s work snow pants which he has worn for the better part of the last 3 days moving 30 or so inches of snow…they are drying by the wood stove right now…
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- Feb 11:Draw a landmark of your city App: ArtRage The new St. Gabriel Church (2011) is already a landmark in our town…
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- Feb 12: Draw something you are thankful for App: Sketchbook Express I know I could have seized this opportunity to draw something deep and terrifically meaningful. Or I could draw something that has changed my life in many ways over the past year. I chose that…
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- Feb 13: Draw something ceramic or something made of China App: Sketchbook Express This is a little ceramic sun that my son made at “sleep-away” camp when he was about 11… 12 years later it is still on display in our dining room…☀
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- Feb 14: Draw an animal (realistic, fantastic, stuffed) App: ArtRage Say hello to Pavone – one of our male peacocks! We have 3 – 2 males and 1 female…
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- Feb 15: Draw the inside of your medicine cabinet App: ArtRage I love the marker tool on ArtRage, which is what I used for this sketch…
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- Feb16: Draw something holiday related App: Sketchbook Express This is me as Cupid for Valentine’s Day. I imported a photo as a layer and then drew over it on another layer…so fun…
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- Day 17: Draw a challenge from the past 1-46 App: ArtRage Glad to have a chance to revisit my Pavone drawing and more time to draw thanks to a snowy Sunday morning during vacation week…❄
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- Feb 18: Draw something that represents your New Year’s goals or resolution App: Brushes One of my goals is to buy and eat more fruit this year. The fact that I do not have any fruit with me to draw right now is less of a reflection on my success in meeting my goals than it is a fact of traveling. I used a painting by Cathleen Rehfeld as a reference for this painting…
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- Feb 19: Draw the entryway to your home App: Brushes Our entryway is presently graced with a quilted piece by my cousin, Penny, who is a phenomenal quilter. To the right in the entryway is a mosaic I started years ago and keep intending to continue in summer…maybe this will be the year!
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- Feb 20: Draw the inside or outside of your refrigerator App: Brushes This is a sketch of the outside of our refrigerator, which is covered with photos and drawings by our granddaughters, neighbor girls, and great niece. I drew quickly today because I am in a hurry to go visit my 2 month old great nephews, Jacob and Jackson…
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- Feb 21: Draw your TV with your favorite show playing App: Brushes, PSExpress This is not my TV, it is the window of a train and my view out the window. I’m on my way to NYC to see Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Way better than TV…
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- Feb 22: Draw a dog App: ProcreateMeet Brandy…we got her at a shelter for my son’s 9th birthday. She crossed the Rainbow Bridge in November 2011. She was a good dog….
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- Feb 23: Draw a mouth App: ProcreateHer smile has been called “enigmatic”…do you know whose mouth this is?
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- Feb 24: Draw someone or something you love App: Procreate Here are two “someones” I love in Rome in 2008, standing by part of a statue. Rome is a “somewhere” I love and I want to go back soon…
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- Feb 25: Draw a doorknob App: Procreate This is the doorknob I’ll be turning as I leave the house to go back to school today…vacation is over…
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- Feb 26: Draw a self portrait App: Procreate This was really fun to do…I wish I had more time to work on it…I’m really starting to love Procreate…⌚
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- Feb 27: Draw a picture frame and what’s inside the frame. Why is it special to you? App: Procreate I bought this little antique print in New Orleans about 20 years ago. The 3 cherubs remind me of my sisters and me. I’m the one on the left…
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- Feb 28: Draw a hat App: ArtRage They said, “Draw a hat” on the pope’s last day…
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- March 1: Draw a sign of spring App: Procreate I can’t wait ’til crocuses dot my garden beds…come on spring!
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- March 2: Draw an automobile or part of one App: Procreate One of my favorite parts of an automobile is a beautiful hood ornament. This from an old Cadillac…
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- March 3: draw a previous challenge in a different medium than you used before App: Procreate Since I’m doing all my challenge drawings on an iPad, a different medium could be a different app. I chose to rework this painting in Procreate after using Brushes the first time…
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- March 4: Take a nature walk, pick up items and draw what you find App: Procreate I didn’t have time to take a nature walk today, so I made the quickest drawing so far of a heart shaped rock like the ones my son and I collect to bring to the cemetery….
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- March 5: Draw a grouping of 2 or more similar objects App: Procreate I’ve been thinking about the apples in Pissaro’s “Still Life with Apples and Pitcher” since I saw it at the Met during vacation. This challenge task gave me a chance to really explore them….
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- March 6: Draw a sink App: Procreate I was not excited to draw a sink. Until I added dirty dishes. For the record, my sink never looks like this…
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- March 7: Draw your nose, a friend’s, or your pet’s nose App: Procreate From a photo I took at a friend’s farm last spring – a Scottish Highlander (cow) licking the inside of her nose…yuk.
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- March 8: Draw a fire hydrant App: Procreate Not even kidding…a fire hydrant. Here is one covered in snow…just like my town today…❄
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- March 9: Draw something Mom – your mother, something that reminds you of motherhood App: ArtStudio In my kitchen I have 2 cups with saucers that remind me daily of my mother. When my parents married they received some Luray dinnerware. 60 years later just a few pieces remain, including these cups and saucers, which my mother gave me 2 years ago. There is a pink set and a blue set. I paired one color cup with the other color saucer to display on either side of the sink…☕
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- March 10: Draw your computer App: ArtStudio My MacBook Air. I love it…
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- March11: Draw a beverage App: ArtStudio I started drawing this at lunch today when the bottle was full. The Snapple Real Fact inside the cover? The word “purple” does not rhyme with any other word in the English language…
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- March 12: Draw your greatest fear App: Sketchbook Express My greatest fear today was that no one would come to the art show. But that didn’t happen! What a great turnout! Thank you everyone for coming!
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- March 13: Draw something from your favorite sport App: ProCreate The truth is…I don’t have a favorite sport. But I have a least favorite sport. Can you guess what it is?
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- March 14: Draw somewhere new or go somewhere new and draw App: ProCreate So I did go somewhere that is relatively new today…the grocery store! Woohoo! The fun never stops…
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- March 15: Draw a mailbox and the most important piece of mail you’ve ever received App: ArtStudio My dad wrote a letter to me when I was in Girl Scout Camp. He excitedly told the story of the moon landing on July 20, 1969. He described Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon with awe and expressed regret that I had not witnessed them while at my rustic camp. In the letter I wrote back to my dad I excitedly described how a TV was brought into the mess hall where all the campers and counselors gathered together and stayed up late watching the historical event. I still have my dad’s letter and it is one of the most important pieces of mail I have ever received…
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- March 16: Draw clouds App: ProCreate I admire the way animators draw clouds. It was a tough choice between Simpsons clouds and these clouds for me. On which character’s wall would you find these clouds? ☁
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- March17: Draw the ingredients of a favorite recipe App: ArtRage Irish bread! I made 2 loaves today. Here is a painting of most of the ingredients. Yummers!
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- March 18: Draw some flowers App: ArtRage I am more than happy to draw flowers, but I would really love to see flowers sprouting in my yard. Come on spring!
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- March 19: Draw something cool or cold App: Sketchbook Express Snow…on the last day of winter. Cold, but not cool… ❄
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- March 20: Draw a souvenir from some place you’ve been App: ProCreate This is a souvenir from my first trip to Haiti. Over limonade, after touring the orphanage at Pwoje Espwa, gorgeous pieces of art like this were brought out for us to consider purchasing. They are beautifully painted on recycled flattened oil drums. Information about Pwoje Espwa can be found at: (www.freethekids.org)
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- March 21: Draw an ear App: Brushes Zebras are pretty much my favorite animal. They have cool ears…
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- March 22: Draw something that makes you happy App: Brushes My art teacher friends make me happy…
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- March 23: Draw a streetlight App: ArtStudio “Street lights, people Livin just to find emotion Hidin, somewhere in the night” – what song are these lyrics from?
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- March 24: Draw your artspace (table, desk, etc) App: Brushes Here is Dr. Seuss at his drawing table…I had the pleasure of spending the morning at the museums in Springfield today where there is a fun Dr. Seuss Memorial and Sculpture Park…
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- March 25: Draw a nearby body of water App: Brushes Here are my son and his girlfriend fishing on the beach last summer…the beach may not be nearby to my home, but it is always nearby to my heart…☀
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- March 26: Draw some bread App: Brushes The bread of choice today is matzah especially for those celebrating Passover..
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- March 27: Draw a neighborhood store App: ProCreate “A Little Common Sense” is the epitome of a neighborhood store, with the emphasis on “neighbor”. I’m just glad it’s in my neighborhood…
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- March 28: Draw a traffic signApp: Sketchbook ExpressWhen Mr. G was a young boy he misread this sign, thinking it said, “Go Chicken Show”. He has always been an animal lover and I think it was wishful thinking that there really was a chicken show nearby…
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- March 29: Draw your lunchApp: Brushes5 out of 7 days this is my lunch: carrots, sugar snap peas, cheddar cheese, pretzel crisps, and a little bit of chocolate. And honey mustard dressing to dunk everything in…except the chocolate…
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- March 30: Draw something breezy – something that blows in the wind App: ProCreate On this holy weekend it is the image of the triumph of Light over darkness that I see clearly and have chosen to draw…⛪
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- March 31: Draw a button App: Brushes Vintage rhinestone buttons are my favorite…especially pink ones…
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- April 1(90): Draw something with wings App: Brushes Dragonfly for my friend Jean (Bean)… #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 2 (91): Draw an apple App: Sketchbook Express Pro – it was fun and just a little weird using the round paint splatter brush to make this painting… #everydaydrawingchallenge #sketchbookexpresspro
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- April 3 #92: Draw a brown paper bag App: ArtRage There is nothing like a brown paper bag to pique one’s curiosity. What’s inside? #everydaydrawingchallenge #ArtRage
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- April 4 (#93): Draw an egg carton or some eggs App: ProCreate This is our egg label on an old-fashioned carton (3 rows of 4). We have 10 layer hens and we usually get 8-10 eggs each day… #everydaydrawingchallenge #procreate
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- April 5 (#94): Draw a spoon App: ArtRage A spoon just like the one we put under our pillow when we really want a snow day. We are SO done with that for this year! ❄ #artrage #everydaydrawingchallenge
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- April 6 (#95): Draw a business card for yourself in your preferred line of work App: iDraw What an interesting drawing task for a Saturday! This is the day for whimsical living without regard for schedules and clocks. On this particular Saturday, the sun is out and it is warming up! ⌚ #everydaydrawingchallenge #iDraw
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- April 7(#96): Draw something sweet App: ProCreate Some of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen are in the paintings by Wayne Thiebaud. What a pleasure it is to copy one of his paintings…his periwinkle and lapis and sunflower gold…yummers… #everydaydrawingchallenge #procreate #thiebaud
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- April 8 (97): Draw a present you have received App: ProCreate Although I have received many wonderful gifts over the years, I chose to draw a present I gave to someone else. Two years ago I gave my husband 2 peacocks and a peahen for his birthday. I am madly in love with the color they bring to my life..so I guess this is my present, too… #everydaydrawingchallenge #procreate
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- April 9: Free choice. Draw anything you like App: Sketchbook Express I started this as a guided drawing lesson on the iPad with my 6th graders yesterday and finished it at a meeting last night. Free choice is the best! #everydaydrawingchallenge #sketchbookexpress
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- April 10 (#99): Draw something that represents a Spring resolution of yours App: ArtStudio “Get outside as much as possible” is #1 on my Spring resolution list…so I did a quick sketch so I could get outside…☀ #everydaydrawingchallenge #artstudio
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- April 11 (100): Draw or paint a landscape App: Brushes Cranberry bogs in early March in Plymouth, MA are the subject of this 100th drawing for the Every Day Drawing Challenge… #brushes #everydaydrawingchallenge
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- April 12 (#101): Draw a bar of soap App: ArtRage I brought this soap home from a trip a few years back..not sure, but I think Monterey, CA. I liked the vintage package design, which seems to say “relax”, yet there is a shark there…really close to the shore… #everydaydrawingchallenge #ArtRage
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- April13 (#102): Draw a power plug App: Brushes My laptop plug with some dramatic lighting…energizing isn’t it? #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 14 (#103): Draw some exercise equipment or what you use to stay fit App: ArtRage I like to walk. I need to do it more…especially on the beach… #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #vacation
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- April 15 (#104): Draw salt and pepper shakers App: Brushes LEGO shakers from LEGOLand in England from our month there in 1998. I collect salt and pepper sets so the hardest thing about this task was choosing which set to draw… #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 16 (#105): Draw some scissors App: Brushes Scissors cut. As with all things, we decide whether we use them to create beauty or destruction. Henri Matisse used them to create beauty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN0okOq8Hyc …✂ #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 17 (#106): Draw something tart or sour App: Brushes Lemon and lime, eat them all the time…ok, not really, but it rhymes… #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 18. (#107): Draw how you get your news App: Brushes I get my news from the internet and TV. So far this week all the news has been either sad or erroneous… #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April19 (#108): Draw a lightbulb App: Brushes Woke up early to images of police car lights in the news. Thankful for these men and women who protect us… #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes #boston
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- April 20 (#109): Draw a clock you have around your house App: Brushes This is our kitchen clock. We painted the kitchen to match it. My friends at work gave it me when I left my last job as a printer 15 years ago… ⏰ #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 21 (#110): Draw something with a flame or flames App: Brushes “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” – Eleanor Roosevelt In memory of Martin, Krystle, Lu, and Sean… #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes #bostonstrong
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- April 22 (#111): Draw a bowl App: Brushes “Life is just a bowl of cherries” on this first day back to school from April vacation… ☺ #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 23 (#112): Draw something fresh App: Brushes Do you know how many 5th and 6th grade student faces flashed before my eyes when I heard, “draw something fresh”? Haha JK… this is a fresh strawberry/rhubarb pie that I made last night… #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 24 (#113): Draw or paint a fence App: Brushes This is the fence I see when I look out the window to our barnyard. Along with the fence, you can see Pavone in full display and Gidget waiting for breakfast… #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 25 (#114): Draw something ugly you love and keep for sentimental reasons App: ProCreate When my son was in third grade many years ago, he lost a tooth at school. He visited my classroom to proudly show me, but I wasn’t there. He found an envelope around my desk, dropped the tooth inside, stapled it closed and wrote “I lost my tooth!!!” on the front. The envelope has been in my desk all these years and I can’t bear to throw it away. And yes, the “ugly” tooth is still inside…✉ #everydaydrawingchallenge #procreate
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- April 26 (#115): Draw a shopping cart or basket App: Brushes Grocery shopping would be a lot more fun if we had adult-sized carts in bright colors like this. I’ll take purple and bright green, please… #everydaydrawingchallenge #brushes
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- April 27 (#116): Draw something green App:ProCreate Iris sprouting along the barnyard fence…a full dose of spring and so many shades of green… #everydaydrawingchallenge #procreate
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- April 28 (117): Draw something round App: ProCreate Here in Massachusetts, the best thing about a beautiful spring day like today is knowing that summer is right around the corner…⛵ #everydaydrawingchallenge #procreate
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- April 29 (#118): Draw some hair App: ProCreate This is the tousled mane of our miniature horse, Gidget, from a photo I took yesterday… #everydaydrawingchallenge #procreate
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- April 30 (#119): Draw a rock App: ProCreate For years my son and I spent New Year’s Eve in Rockport with dear friends. After a hearty breakfast the next day we would undertake “the enforced march”… a 3 to 5 mile loop around the town. We would stop at the beach to pick up some rounded rocks. Everyone pitched in to carry as many as they could. After a few years and a lot of rocks later, my son and friends used them to create a “Roxaboxen” in the woods in our backyard. All these years later these 2 rocks remain. So many memories with this drawing today! #everydaydrawingchallenge #procreate
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- May 1 (#120): Draw a flashlight App: Procreate Little pink flashlight I keep in the kitchen for when we lose power…it’s wicked bright…
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- May 2 (#121): Draw a coin or some coins App: Procreate I rummaged through the old tea kettle where I keep coins left over from our travels and chose this Haitian gourde (pronounced goud). It is equal to 100 centimes in Haiti. It would take 42 of these to equal one US dollar. I love the words on the tiny ribbon at the bottom: “L’Union Fait La Force” (French) – “Unity is Strength” (English)…
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- May 3 (122): Draw something where shade is a prominent part of the subject App: ProCreate The sun is so bright in Haiti, shade is often elusive. This drawing is from a photo I took when I was there in 2007…
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- May 4 (#123): Draw a bell App: ProCreate The bell at chapel LaHatte, Les Cayes, Haiti…from a photo taken in 2009…⛪
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- May 5 (#124): Draw something yellow App: ProCreate Typical Haitian home (this one painted yellow) with a typical tamarind tree in the front yard…
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- May 6 (#125): Draw a bird App: ProCreate Here is Pavone, our oldest male peacock, and one of my favorite birds…
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- May 7 (#126): Draw a sponge App: ProCreate This is a little glimpse into my clay tools drawer…the sponges are the cut corners of my “glue sponges”: https://monalisaliveshere.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/i-love-the-glue-sponge/…
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- May 8 (#127): Draw a skyscape App: ProCreate I love summer skies filled with kites…a favorite memory is flying kites from the top floor of a parking garage in San Francisco with my son and my niece, Shannon…
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- May 9 (#128): Draw a view through a doorway from one room into another App: ProCreate Graphic interpretation of a photo I took just inside the doorway of a house in Haiti in 2009. I always loved the muted colors in this photo and it was nice to revisit it for the challenge today. Btw- you see a hand wrought broom and drum leaning against the wall…
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- May 10 (#129): Draw people doing something App: ProCreate Boys in a boat… St. Louis de Sud, Haiti 2009
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- May 11 (#130): Draw some school supplies App: ProCreate Best school supplies ever! “Life is about using the whole box of crayons” or something like that…
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- May 12 (#131): Draw a spray bottle App: ProCreate I’m using this spray bottle to spray best wishes for a happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there. Take a break from those cleaning spray bottles today…let the kids do the work!
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- May 13 (#132): Draw a chain App: ProCreate Can you make a dandelion chain? You should try it and give it to someone you love…
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- May 14 (#133): Draw a peach App: ProCreate So many great songs on the Eat a Peach album by the Allman Brothers…One Way Out is the first that comes to mind…
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- May 15 (#134): Draw a familiar person, place or thing from a different angle App: ProCreate This is Mr. G from above
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- May 16 (#135): Draw a salad App: ProCreate 80 degree days like today make me want fruit salad… yummers!
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- May 17 (#136): Draw or paint something that is alive App:ProCreate This is our cat who was my father’s cat. My father named him Wedgwood, his own middle name…
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- May 18 (#137): Draw something you turn on and off App: ProCreate I can turn on my potter’s wheel now that it is warmer outside. Can’t wait to get all gushy with clay…
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- May 19 (#138): Draw something soft App: ProCreate How about twin “something softs”? These boys are doubly sweet, too! Great-nephews Jackson and Jacob…
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- May 20 (139): Draw something with a handle App: ProCreate I love this mug! I use it at school to keep my coffee warm…I seriously love it!
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- May 21 (#140): Draw an envelope App: ProCreate What do you think you would find in an envelope like this?
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- May 22 (#141): Draw something with bristles App: ProCreate Choosing what to draw was easy today…
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- May 23 (#142): Draw something hot App: ProCreate caliente, Caliente, CALIENTE!!!
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- May 24 (143): Draw an herb or a spice App: ProCreate Basil will soon be growing on my back step while mint grows in the side yard. This is a big planting weekend here in MA…may your thumbs be green and your back be strong…
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- May 25 (#144): Draw something square App: ProCreate When I think of squares I think of album covers…you know, records?
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- May 26 (#145): Draw a tree in autumn ProCreate So tough to draw this when my mind is fully focused on spring…
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- May 27 (#146): Draw a favorite food App: ProCreate Had one of these at the ocean today…yummers!
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- May 28 (#147): Draw something that is made of wood App: ProCreate Mr. G. has had this little wooden guy for a long time…it could be his self portrait…jk…
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- May 29 (#148): Draw something soothing App: ArtRage The gushiness of paint is always soothing – even on an iPad…
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- May 30 (#149): Draw a broom App: ArtRage Our big old classroom broom is going to sweep all the clay crumbs and dust from the floor tomorrow…
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- May 31 (#150): Draw a candle App: ArtRage Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that – Martin Luther King Jr.
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- June 1 (#151): Free choice App: ArtRage This painting goes out to all Urban Missionaries. I’ve been wanting to paint Our Lady of Hope for a while now and am grateful for a free choice task to do so. I used the oil painting tool on ArtRage…
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- June 2 (#152): Draw a nut App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel One of my friends shares a summer cottage with his brothers. Each family has two weeks vacation there, then it’s the next family’s turn. One year my friend got all excited when he found a bag of pistachios in the cupboard when he arrived for his turn at the cottage. He excitedly reached into the bag only to find that it was full of the shells his brother had saved to refill the bag and trick him…not nice! But funny…
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- June 3 (#153): Draw something in a plastic wrapper App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – Made in Massachusetts, these plastic-wrapped treats were a favorite at the diner where I worked as a teen. They are so well wrapped that, as a waitress, I would sometimes have to help a customer get them started…
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- June 4 (#154): Draw a lemon App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor brush How cheerful is a big, bright, sunny, yellow lemon?
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- June 5 (#155): Draw something with a step or steps App: ArtRage – pencil and watercolor – I love the visual rhythm of the steps to the clay studio covered in snow…
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- June 6 (#156): Draw a sandwich App: ArtRage – pencil and watercolor – Soon we’ll be using locally grown produce to make my favorite summer sandwich – cucumber, tomato, and avocado… yummers!
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- June 7 (#157): Draw a towel App: ArtRage – Pencil – My son and the hooded towel he loved to be wrapped up in after his bath…
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- June 8 (#158): Draw a kernel of popped popcorn App: ArtRage – Oil Paint & Pencil – I love popcorn…
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- June 9 (#159): Draw your favorite cooking tool App: ArtRage Tool: Oil pastel – I use these canning tongs to place and remove hot canning jars in a big pan of boiling water. When I can (put up) jams, pickles, and salsa, I feel connected to the generations of industrious homemakers before me who put up food in the summer and fall in order to provide food for their families throughout the winter and spring…honorable and necessary…
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- June 10 (#160): Draw a trophy or an award App: ArtRage Tool: Marker and Crayon – It took 4 years and as many team configurations to finally win our Education Foundation Trivia Bee…the three of us on the team each got one of these little guys, and our school got a giant trophy…
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- June 11 (#151): Draw something you think smells wonderful App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – This is a drawing of Petrichor, the scent of rain on dry earth. In the summertime, I love the smell of rain on pavement just after the sun comes out again …
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- June 12 (#162): Draw your breakfast App: ArtRage Tool: Oil pastel – It’s such a treat to have Red Barn coffee from Angel’s Cafe with breakfast this week…yummers!
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- June 13 (163): Draw a deck of cards App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil – “In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.” – Van Morrison
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- June 14 (#164): Draw a camera App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – My first “serious” camera, circa 1982. Yes, I still have it …
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- June 15 (#165): Draw the front of your house, apartment building, etc. App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil Our house in fall colors…a quick sketch …
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- June 16 (#166): Draw a fish App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – I love that the task on Father’s Day is to draw a fish. So many fathers enjoy fishing and they pass that love on to their children, as my son’s father did for him in just the first 3 years of his life. He was lucky to have his uncles and grandfather to continue to fish with him and as a result loves fly fishing today – this is a rainbow trout…
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- June 17 (#167): Draw something that needs fixing App: ArtRage Tool: Oil paints It’s berry season in New England and my berry breakfast needs fixing…happy Monday!
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- June 18 (#168): Draw your daily newspaper App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil – Before I was a teacher I was a printer for 20 years. I started in paste-up and layout, working at a local newspaper. These were the tools of the trade: x-acto knife, non-repro pencil, pica ruler, etc along with hot wax. Pretty odd writing about this on my iPad, which does the same thing in a very different way. PS – I don’t get a daily newspaper. I get my news on the Internet..
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- June 19 (#169): Draw a piece of cake App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint This was a piece of cake thanks to Wayne Thiebaud, whose work I copied here…
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- June 20 (#170): Draw a zipper App: ArtRage Tool: Crayon and Watercolor I hate when this happens to a zipper…
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- June 21 (#171): Draw some ice cream App: ArtRage Tool: Crayon & Watercolor – I scream…U scream…We all scream for ice cream…
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- June 22 (#172): Draw something that sparkles App: ArtRage Tool: Marker They say a diamond is a girl’s best friend, but I would argue that strong self esteem and a positive self image are a girl’s best friend…
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- June 23 (#173): Draw something from memory App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Took a ride on the Cape Cod railroad yesterday. This is the Bourne bridge from the railroad bridge over the Cape Cod Canal from memory…we went over the railroad bridge…very cool!
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- June 24 (#174): Draw a bridge App:ArtRage Tool: Airbrush & Art marker Both metaphorically and literally, I’ve always been a fan of bridges. This from a photo I took 2 weeks ago of the Zakim/Bunker Hill bridge over the Charles…
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- June 25 (#175): Draw a basket and what it holds App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – This is a quahog basket. It holds possibility. Once I go quahog digging it will be full of quahogs. Have you ever dug quahogs? If so, what did you make with them?
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- June 26 (#176): Draw something summer App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint Nothing says “summer” like a popsicle…in this case my favorite flavor…what’s your favorite flavor?
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- June 27 (#177): Draw a flag App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – The Italian flag in memory of Uncle Louie…may he rest in peace…
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- June 28 (#178): Draw something red App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint One of a pair of cardinals that fly around our front yard…
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- June 29 (#179): Draw an onion App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor on marbled paper – “Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep” – Carl Sandburg
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- June 30 (#180): Draw something in your favorite color App: ArtRage Tool: Marker – Red used to be my favorite color, then I switched to purple. Now I have a few favorite colors and they’re all in this drawing of my favorite shape to doodle. Yes, I know my favorite shape, but please don’t ask me to choose a favorite color…
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- 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
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- July 2 (#182): Draw a truck App: ArtistsTouch A “SOLD” sign and a smile… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artiststouchapp #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting #artsed #arted #arteducation #toyotatacoma
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- 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
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- 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
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- July 5 (#185): Draw a cat App: ArtistsTouch Tool: Charcoal Siberian white tiger. Meow… #everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artiststouchapp #digitalart #arted #artsed #monalisaliveshere #ipadart #ipadpainting #tiger
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- July 14 (#194): Draw a baked potato App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor & Pencil – Yummers…yes, please… #everydaydrawingchallenge #eddc #artrage #digitalart #monalisaliveshere #ipadart #ipadpainting #potatolove #spuds
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- July 15 (#195): Draw a fork App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – So much potential in a fork…yes?
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- 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
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- July 17 (#197): Draw a remote control App: ArtRage Tool: Marker – My Vdub key remote… #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #digitalart #volkswagen
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- July 24 (#124): Draw something frosty App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – Yummers…a frosty root beer float…let’s make some! ❄ #eddc #artrage #rbf #digitalart #nofilter #ipadart #ipadpainting #icecream #everydaydrawingchallenge
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- August 2 (#213): Draw a microwave App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – Hey good lookin’…whatcha got cookin? #eddc #everydaydrawingchallenge #artrage #digitalart #ipadart #ipadpainting
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- September 1 (#243): Draw something September App: ArtRage Tool: Paint – Apples in the orchard and apples in the classroom…
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- September 2 (#244): Draw the oldest thing in your refrigerator App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Paint – I love that the oldest thing in my refrigerator just happens to be Rose’s Sweetened Lime Juice and I’m drawing it on my niece Rose’s birthday… Happy birthday Rosie!
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- September 3 (#245): Draw a pillow App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil – My niece, Tina, painted this peacock feather pillow just for me in response to the “handmade” Facebook challenge. The post goes something like this: “I promise to send something handmade to the first 5 people who leave a comment here. THE CATCH: You must in turn promise to post this and send something handmade to the first 5 people who leave you a comment.”
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- September 4 (#246): Draw some gloves App: ArtRage Tool: Pastel – My kiln gloves for opening the cover when it’s hot, hot, hot..
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- September 5 (#247): Draw something creepy App: ArtRage Tool: Pastel Creepy, Creepier, Creepiest …yukkers!
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- September 6 (#248): Draw a lock App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – “Locks keep out only the honest” – Jewish Proverb
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- September 7 (#249): Draw a coffee pot App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – I should fill this baby up and bring it to Brimfield today…early start to the day and it’s cold!
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- September 8 (#250): Draw something free App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – Beatrix came to us in late August. She had lost her partner to an illness and was lonely for goat company. She is smiling here because she is loving life with her new barnyard pals. They say “The best things in life are free.” This goat and her smiles are 2 good examples of that…
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- September 9 (#251): Draw perfume or a scented product App: ArtRage Tool: Marker Got a little carried away embracing my inner hippie with this one. Patchouli was the signature scent of my generation. Am I showing my age?
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- September 10 (#252): Draw a pine tree App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – When I think trees in art, I think Winslow Homer … these from his “The Blue Boat”…
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- September 11 (#253): Draw your socks App: ArtRage Tool: Paint – No socks for me until November (that’s my goal anyway)… here are some mismatched socks to brighten up your day…
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- September 12 (#254): Draw something that represents joy App: ArtRage Tool: Paint – Sorry to be so shallow, but after a 97 degree day at school where the floors were so wet with humidity that they seemed to be melting, I spied this AC vent in an office when I stepped in for a meeting at the end of the day… the cooling of AC? It was pure joy…
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- September 13 (#255): Draw someone near you on a bus or in a car App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil and oil pastel – How about “someone near you in the family room”? Mr. G., works for me!
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- September 14 (#256): Draw something bubbly App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Polar blueberry seltzer on ice…yummers!
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- September 15 (#257): Draw a houseplant App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Air plants (bromeliads) are warm weather plants that don’t need soil to live. I like them so much I made an air plant pot from coiled clay for them, the top of which is seen here…
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- September 16 (#258): Draw the inside of your closet App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – No way…it’s dark in there…
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- September 17 (#259): Draw something from a pet’s point of view App: SketchbookX Tool: Pencil and paint – Breakfast – from our cat, Wedgwood’s, point of view… Yummers!
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- September 18 (#260): Draw a filled suitcase App: SketchbookX Tool: Pencil and Paint Flip flops, sunscreen, and a good book…this looks like my kind of vacation…
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- September 19 (#261): draw something from a fall sport App: SketchbookX Tool: Paint – I was a high school field hockey player… It was fun…
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- September 20 (#262): Draw your bathtub or shower App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Okay, so this is not my bathtub, but somewhere someone took a bath in a tub like this not long ago …
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- September 21 (#263): Draw your favorite cleaning product App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor & Pencil – Mr. G couldn’t imagine that I had a favorite cleaning product I guess I should be using this, not painting it
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- September 22 (#264): Draw your floor App: SketchbookX Pencil & Flood Fill Took advantage of this task to develop a lesson in perspective using the straight line tool…it works!
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- September 23 (#265): Draw your neighbor App: ArtRage Tool: Pastel and Paint My sweet neighbors, Sophia and Laura, and little Mona, too…
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- September 24 (#266): Draw something or someone you cherish App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – I cherish these two right here…
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- September 25 (#267): Draw something flexible App: ArtRage Tool: Marker – Loop bracelets like this are indeed flexible AND all the rage in middle school right now. I hope to make some with art club next week…
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- September 26 (#268): Draw something you need App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – I need an eraser when I draw on paper. I need the “undo” button when I draw on the iPad. I need “do-overs” and second chances in life…
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- September 27 (#269): Draw something annoying App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – This guy on the bird feeder is so annoying…
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- September 28 (#270): Draw something you’d like to preserve App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – The innocence and complete trust of infants is something I’d like to preserve…
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- September 29 (#271): Free Choice App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor Glad for a free choice today to redo the twins in watercolor. Trying to catch their soft, innocent quality…
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- September 30 (##272): Draw your interpretation of a line from a song App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – “Oh, take off your thirsty boots and stay for awhile…” From Thirsty Boots by Eric Anderson and recorded by Bob Dylan here: http://youtu.be/O_Hq817vQd4
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- October 1 (#273): Draw a collection of tools App: ArtRage Tools: Watercolor – This is a basic collection of pottery tools… Got to play with clay twice today!
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- October 2 (#274): Draw your favorite book App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – I’ve been considering which book to draw all day. I decided to go with one of my favorite children’s books by my favorite children’s book author, Chris Van Allsburg. It was a sincere pleasure copying Chris’s fine illustration…
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- October 3 (#275): Draw a tube of toothpasteApp: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – Looks like I need to put toothpaste on my shopping list…
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- October 4 (#276): Draw your grocery storeApp: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – The most colorful section of the grocery store…
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- October 5 (#277): Draw something that hasn’t been invented yet that should be inventedApp: ArtRage Tool: Oil pastel – There should be a tree that has leaves that turn color in fall, but don’t fall off. Instead, they stay beautiful all winter then turn green again in spring…
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- October 6 (#278): Draw something that starts with the first letter of your nameApp: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint”Magnified apples appear and disappear,Stem end and blossom end,And every fleck of russet showing clear.” – from “After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost …
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- October 7 (#279): Draw something that starts with the first letter of your last nameApp: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – I’ve been wanting to draw a giraffe for awhile…
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- October 8 (#279): Draw something you don’t see every day App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Last night’s weather forecast was for some intense storms. We got a lot of wind and rain, but none of this…scary and amazing, all at once..
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- October 9 (#281): Draw what keeps you warm or cool App: ArtRage Tool: Crayon – Soon enough we’ll be firing up the wood stove while the winter winds blow outside…
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- October 10 (#282): Draw something you’ve been putting off doing, or don’t want to do App: SketchbookX Tool: Paint – “No socks ’til November” is what I strive for every year. This is not easy in New England, where we’ve had snow/hurricanes in October the past few years…I hope I don’t jinx it ❄
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- October 11 (#283): Draw something shiny App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint and Palette Knife Shiny, smooth rocks…think river bed or ocean’s edge, which are both great thoughts to start your day…
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- October 12 (#284): Draw your downtown App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor Our downtown is guarded by this soldier and all the heroes his statue commemorates…
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- October 13 (#285): Draw something that likes the sun App: ArtRage Tool : Oil Paint – My zinnias love the sun and warm weather. I just cut a bunch of them to bring in the house to stay warm…
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- October 14 (#286): Draw a shirtApp: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – Get your flannels out people…it’s chilly out there…
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- October 15 (#287): Draw something colorful App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – This crazy quilt is crazy with color…and I love it
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- October 16 (#288): Draw something with spots App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – They say – “A leopard doesn’t change its spots”…
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- October 17 (#289): Draw an appliance you bought or were given and never used App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor So I bought one of these once and used it once. I sold it at a yard sale eventually. I guess I prefer to keep it simple…
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- October 18 (#290): Draw a teapot App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – “Make tea, not war.” ~Monty Python
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- October 19 (#291): Draw an illustration for the cover of your favorite book App: ArtRage & SketchbookX Tool: Watercolor & Text “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” ― Nelson Mandela
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- October 20 (#292): Draw a night scene App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel Draw a night scene Neighbors house last night…decked out for Halloween…
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- October 21 (#293): Draw something made of glass App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Glass vegetables…nbd…
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- October 22 (#294): Draw something that makes you smile App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint & Palette Knife 24 years of making me smile… happy birthday week, kid…
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- October 23 (#295): Draw some toast App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – Cinnamon raisin toast – yummers! Got to go; breakfast is served…
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- October 24 (#295): Draw something orange App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint Here you go, pumpkin…
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- October 25 (#296): Draw a water bottle App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – A gift from our student council…yet another teacher perk
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- October 26 (#296): Draw something strange App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – I ordered turnip greens at dinner last night…they were not only strange, they were a mistake…blech!
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- October 27 (#297): Draw a table App: ArtRage Tool: Marker – A replica of King Arthur’s Round Table which hangs in Winchester Castle…18′ diameter…a big table in a Great Hall inspiring awe in all who visit. From a photo I took in 1998…
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- October 28 (#300): Draw something bright App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – The sun was so bright on the ocean yesterday…
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- October 29 (#301): Draw something cute App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – Meet Mona and Lisa, our Netherland Dwarf bunnies and cutest animals in the barnyard…
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- October 30 (#302): Draw something in motion App: Sketchbook Express Tool: Air brush and Paint Had a lot of fun with the art ed students at UMassD last night. After 2 hours of “How to include tech in the art room”, they were set free to explore Sketchbook Express with the prompt: “Get yourself ready for Halloween” … Btw: the witch is in motion…
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- October 31(#303): Draw something frozen App: ArtRage Tool: Paint – So it took 6 not 5 for the Red Sox to win the World Series…yes, I said WIN!!! My friend Moe, a huge Red Sox fan, keeps a bag of these in her freezer during the Halloween season…Take 5, Moe, and celebrate … ⚾️
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- 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!
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- November 2 (#305): Draw something huge App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Elephant ears are huge…
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- November 3 (#306): Draw a snack App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil – Man cannot live on airline peanuts and pretzels alone…
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- November 4 (#307): Draw something raw App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil – Cucumber or raw pickle… you decide…
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- November 5 (#308): Draw something slippery App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil “All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography” – Frederico Fellini
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- November 6 (#309): Draw something with more than 2 legs App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor & Pencil – Birds of a feather stand together…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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… ⚓️
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- November 11 (#314): Draw something with a knob App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint- Pink knobs on our kitchen cabinets…what’s for supper?
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- November 12 (#315): Draw something under water App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Our former frog, Ferguson, doubling as the Nirvana baby…
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- 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…
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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 ️
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- November 17 (#320): Draw something you will give away App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – ‘Tis the season for giving…almost …ho ho ho
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- 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…
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- 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 …
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- 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 …
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- 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
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- 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…
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- 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 …
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- 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…
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- November 25 (#328): Draw something with buttons App: ArtRage Tool: Paint With hundreds of available channels, I still prefer it off…
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- 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….
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- November 27 (#330): Draw some corn App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – I never realized how teeth-like corn kernels are until tonight…
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- November 28 (#331): Draw your Thanksgiving table App: ArtRage Tool: Marker Happy Thanksgiving! Snoopy & memories by Charles M. Schultz…
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- November 29 (#332): Draw a pie App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint Pecan pie with chocolate & pretzel bits… want a piece?
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- 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…
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- December 1 (#335): Draw a silhouette App: ArtRage Tool: Marker – This is one bad silhouette…
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- December 2 (#336): Draw a horse in motion App: ArtRage Tool: Oil paint – My niece Clare on her horse Pekoe … this girl can ride…
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- December 3 (#337): Draw some candy App: ArtRage Tool: Oil paint – This isn’t candy, it’s heaven in a gold wrapper…
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- December 4 (#338): Draw an owl App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – Whoooo whoooo doesn’t like owls? This is for my 6th grade students who are working with actual texture and line patterns in animals…
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- December 5 (#339): Draw a bouquet of flowers App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – ‘Tis the season for complementary colors…
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- December 6 (#340): Draw a missing tooth App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – Miss Laura and her missing tooth… from a photo taken a few years ago. It was early in the morning and I was taking photos of my gardens. Laura and her dad were on their way to get donuts. They pulled over and Laura showed me her missing tooth. Snap! Photo op!
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- December 7 (#341): Draw your hand holding something App: ArtRage Tool: Pencil & Watercolor – “Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood” – Andy Goldsworthy …
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- December 8 (#342): Draw something using only straight lines App:123Design Tool: Primitives – First design for 3D printed art – designed this pendant using only straight lines. These are 4 views of the same piece…
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- December 9 (#343): Draw a bridge App:ArtRage Tool:Watercolor – My son taught me to be amazed by bridges. This is the Manhattan Bridge in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, from a photo I took in the summer of 2012 when Keith Haring was at the Brooklyn Museum…
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- December 10 (#344): Draw an empty room App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home – Mother Teresa…
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- December 11 (#345): Draw a snowflake App: ArtRage Tool: Metallic Paint – IPad glitter is so much neater than really glitter…
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- December 12 (#346): Draw a nut and bolt App: ArtRage Tool: Metallic Paint “A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted” – John Ciari
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- December 13 (347): Draw something with wheels App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – I love Christmas wind up toys. I can’t help it…
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- December 14 (#348): Draw some things that remind you of your favorite song App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – Summer Wind – Sung by Frank Sinatra – one of my favs …
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- December 15 (#349): Draw an illustration of your favorite poem App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – “so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens” – William Carlos Williams
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- December 16 (#350): Draw a zoo animal App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – King of the jungle zoo, baby… rawr!
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- December 17 (#351): Draw a jungle animal App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – How lucky am I that Mr. G is snowbound with me tonight? Free model…haha, jk…
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- December 18 (#352): Draw a desert animal App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor & Pencil – Hey, what day is it?
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- December 19 (#353): Draw an arctic animal App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Polar bears are inactive about 87% of the time, living off stored fat…polar bears spend most of their active time at sea…(facts from Science Kids)…
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- December 20 (#354): Draw a boat App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – A boat with 3 alpacas…Man Ray, Andy, and Ivanhohoho…
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- December 21 (#355): Draw something in a jar App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – Preparing for the alpacalypse…
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- December 22 (#356): Draw something green App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
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- December 23 (#357): Draw something with lights App: ArtRage Tool: Tube o’paint & palette knife – Alpaca lawn decoration…
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- December 24 (#358): Draw something peaceful App: iMovie, Explain Everything, Camera – Goodwill Toward Humans and Alpacas – Click here to see the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIW-BcjTZbE
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- December 25 (#359): Draw a highlight of your day App: ArtRage Tool: Watercolor & Pencil – Opening stockings on Christmas is always a highlight of the day…it begins a flurry of unwrapping during which some pretty fine things happen…
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- December 26 (#360): Draw something melting App: ArtRage Tool: Paints – A little winter angel with his melting star-on-a-stick…
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- December 27 (#361): Draw your favorite time of the day App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – My favorite time of day includes long blue shadows against warm light…
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- December 28 (#362): Draw a hobby App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Paint – While my hobbies are art related, my husband’s hobby is his small barnyard of animals…
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- December 29 (#363): Draw a hair brush App: ArtRage Tool: Metallic paint – We’ve come a long way, baby…or have we?
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- December 30 (#364): Draw a memory from the past year App: ArtRage Tool: Oil Pastel – Trust me, I know. Second to last drawing out of 365, after a year full of starkly memorable moments, and I chose to draw a bowl of cereal…
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- December 31 (#365): Draw a New Year’s resolution App: SketchbookX Tool: Multi – I just finished a year of creating digitally every day on my iPad! in 2014, I am adding a dimension. New Year’s Resolution: Use modified CAD apps to create 3D art to print on a 3D printer. I expect this work to take time, so I don’t expect to post daily. It’s all very exciting! Stay tuned…Happy New Year!
Here is the challenge list:
Click on the image to view the prompts
Happy Drawing in 2014!
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