# thejanuarychallenge day30 sketchbook renaissance day29 sketch sundayfunday takeon250 day24 playingwithpaint day20 yoga pranayama day18 gwarthmog cat art day14 sketchaday colours donovan day9 tree day8 dryjanuary cupoftea day7 artmaterials oilpainting day6 odetoanapple day3 wheelchair disability community workplaces 5waystowellbeing


Today's challenge: 'Meditate & write to the future. How did it make you feel?'.
Well I didn't meditate, I can't sit still long enough but I did wonder what it would be like as an angel in a Renaissance painting.

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2023-01-31


Today's challenge is to 'Teach somebody a skill that you have'.
So here are my instructions to boil an egg just in case somebody out there doesn't know how to do this.
Boil for 3 minutes.
Enjoy your egg.

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2023-01-30

Day 28 Out Of My Hands - I had a go at a left handed portrait. I didn't take my hand off the page and the flow seemed to help

This is artwork 318/250

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2023-01-30


Challenge today: 'Playing with Paint'. I got out my acrylics & a palette knife & splashed & squished paint around. Added a line but it took ages to dry as my artroom is so cold! Then I added some stick figures. Oh dear.

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2023-01-25


Challenge today is to relax and breathe consciously while covering one nostril! The technique is called pranayama. Don't think I will be trying it!

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2023-01-21


CAT LOVERS BEWARE!
Challenge was to choose a word, translate it into Welsh, create a new word.
Cow - Gwartheg - Gwarthmog. Meet a gwarthmog, a cross between a cat and a cow!
I do think I might have overthought this one.

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2023-01-19

Awake at 3am
Digitally collaging
Intriguing results

Day 17

I haven't tried digitally layering my art before but I'll do it again. Here are the 4 stages with 5 layers.

Alt text is worth reading.

This is artwork 176/250

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2023-01-17


'A song that connects with theme of 'colour'.
It had to be the poetic 'Colours' by Donovan and I sat down to listen to it - didn't join in because I can't sing.

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2023-01-15

Can you identify which track inspired which painting.

ABBA - Waterloo
Sam Ryder - Space Man
Lulu - Boom Bang A Bang
Bucks Fizz - Making your mind up

These are artwork 147-150/250

Day 13
'Colour in your singing.'

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2023-01-13

Day 11

Sign Names

I've thought a lot about this challenge and how I could respond because it's about finding a visual sign for your name. As a blind person that's really tricky because I couldn't see someone else's sign.

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2023-01-11


Challenge today 'Twist'
I love trees and I paint lot of them but this is the first with a twist! - Well it might be my second - but it is the first in watercolour.

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2023-01-10


Challenge is what is your 'Pick me Up?'
Spent all day objecting to a planning application! In need of a pick me up during I turned to a cup of Earl Grey in a posh cup and saucer. Drawing it made me relax.

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2023-01-09


Challenge today is to collect 'found things' around you and to create an image of your objects.
I sketched my art materials which were already set up to paint.

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2023-01-08


"Choose an object and glorify it."
So here is my ode to an apple, the same apple I drew yesterday.

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2023-01-07


'Add a face to an everyday background'.
The odd one out...
Today's challenge that appeared in my inbox this morning was set by library staff & community connectors in Cumbria!
Many thanks to for organising.

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2023-01-06

today 'Find out something you've got in common with someone older or younger'.
I immediately thought of the E H Shepard illustration of Pooh Bear and Piglet. So here is a child with an older person happily having a favourite day together.

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2023-01-05

Day 3. The January Challenge. 'First impressions'.
Found this challenge extremely difficult to sketch -"Create an imprint of your hand or foot, in or with natural materials. Leave behind a trace of yourself, or take it inside." Did I do it?

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2023-01-04

"Emma's wheelchair is her freedom. After spending 3 months without a chair in 2022 she is incredibly thankful to be back on wheels and enjoying life with less pain and more adventures." What object can you celebrate today? https://t.co/ZxtrKUDKsz

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2023-01-01

👥 People take part in in all sorts of ways...

Together with groups or , through groups with friends or family, sharing on social media with the hashtag or individually....anything goes!

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2022-12-28

Words from Maya Angelou: Human Family
"We are more alike my friends than we are unalike"

READ: https://t.co/12mZIOTsUb
LISTEN: https://t.co/didgtWUFX9


https://t.co/PbRP7QCa4L

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2022-01-31