Inky Owl's Creative Challenge 3-FREE Community Project for Wellbeing & Positivity
Hello again
It's Time for Another of Inky Owls Creative & Wellness Community Projects
Inky Owls Creative Challenge Number 3
As before:
Entry is FREE
Submission deadline date 4th July
Prizes: Three Categories
Adults- Free Ingatestone Hall ‘Plein air’ watercolour/drawing tutored day trip
14-17 Years- Free wellness art club session or GCE/GCSE session.
8-13 Years- Free wellness art club session.
Send your entries with your name contact and age category to inkyowlsfineartandcrafts@gmail.com by the deadline date
You will need: something to paint or draw with and a surface to draw on.
Create a Visual Diary .
First find an interesting organic subject matter ;perhaps a plant, a patch of soil, a pond, decaying vegetation etc
Next make 7 drawings/ paintings or photos etc of your subject matter ,
over a period of time .ie over 7 days ; 7 same time of day over one week ; 7 times in one day . 7 times ten minute drawings etc
Last months winner of Inky Owls Creative Challenge NO 2
Congratulations to Phil Shaw
winning a trip to Ingatestone Hall Landscape watercolour painting with Sue Fryatt
Iast months winner of Inky Owls Creative Challenge
Congratulations to Debbie Donovan
winning a trip to Ingatestone Hall Landscape watercolour painting with Sue Fryatt
Hello
It's Time for Another of Inky Owls Creative & Wellness Community Projects
Inky Owls Creative Challenge Number 2
As before:
Entry is FREE
Submission deadline date 23 May 2021
Prizes: Three Categories
Adults- Free Ingatestone Hall ‘Plein air’ watercolour/drawing tutored day trip
14-17 Years- Free wellness art club session or GCE/GCSE session.
8-13 Years- Free wellness art club session.
Send your entries with your name contact and age category to inkyowlsfineartandcrafts@gmail.com by the deadline date
You will need: something to paint or draw with and a surface to draw on.
If you don't have standard pens pencils or paints use a twig/s, paper, if you don't have inks/paint try using strong black coffee, the consistency of milk (slightly thicker than water).
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Use a stick with a fine point to draw with- better still if you have a bamboo stick cut this at an angle the hollow stich will hold more ink
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Using a fresh fibrous twig then finely shred the fibres downwards about an inch, now you have an instant brush
Alternatively, if you are constructing something relief or three dimensional and don't have standard materials you could use several of the same items from your collection (see task paragraph) to make something three dimensional.
Next your task is to find a green space to forage for natural things you would find in nature.
You are looking for at least 6 small items that relate to a particular group (just 6 Twigs, just 6 feathers, just 6 stones, just 6 dead bugs,6 leaves, 6 flowers, or 6 foliage etc.)
Each of your objects must have a different quality, texture, size, density etc.
Create a response/ piece of art from your objects, that observes a number of these qualities.
There is no right or wrong way of doing this.
Not sure what to do? How about looking at illustrative botanical studies and land art by Andy Goldsworthy (Yes Goldsworthy often uses more than one variety of objects- quite often natural elements too, but we’ll keep it simple for now). So, anything between these two starting points or beyond is your range of interpretation.
Good luck and enjoy
Sue
Inky Owls Creative Retreat