Painting Challenge: International Artist Day 2022

October 20, 2022 / Diann Zimmerman

To recognize International Artist Day (October 25), this week’s challenge is to post art you created, any type of art: painting, drawing, digital art, photograph, song you wrote, sculpture, poem you wrote… any art that you created.

Share your ART!

You may still enter the challenge with any of your watercolor paintings, of course. This is a watercolor group. 🙂

Include the topic hashtag in your Watercolor – Beginners and Beyond Facebook group post: #ArtistDay2022

Deadline October 28, 2022, 11:59 pm ET

Being an artist encompasses:

painters (all mediums)
photographers
sculptors
musicians
writers
digital artists

Artists usually have other creative outlets.

Picasso (born on October 25, 1881) was a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, poet, and playwright.

Did you take a beautiful picture? Photography is art. Post it!
Did you make a vase? That’s art. Post it!
Did you write a song? Post it. Music is art!
Did you write a poem? Share it. Poetry is art!

It will be interesting to see all the various art forms created by our group members. I’ve already seen many talented photographers in the group. I know we have several amazing musicians in the group, and I’m sure there are poets too!

As for me… I am a very amateur photographer, a digital artist, I sketch, and paint with watercolor, inks, alcohol inks, acrylic, and I am a mural artist. (However I’ve only done one mural. My back fence is 115 feet long, so doing one mural was enough for me. My back still hurts!)

If you’d like to see the entire fence: https://youtube.com/shorts/jzNtfzZrDJI?feature=share

My husband planted red flowers in front of my poppy field fence.

What is the prize?

There will be 3 random winners this week. Each winner will receive lifetime access to Angela Fehr’s Watercolor Workout Course.

This is one of the exercises in this course.

This course focuses on the exercises that Angela uses herself. You will find these lessons strengthen your painting skills, helping you think more creatively as she demonstrates creative warmups and exercises focused on:

Exploring watermedia – watercolour pencils, ink pencils, aquasticks & more
Sketching on the go
Using sketches to build a painting (using contour drawing, value studies, shape studies & more)
Evaluating and learning from your best work
Learning through copying a great painting
“Recycling” a bad painting
Painting expressively to capture mood or memory
206 minutes of content

If you have ideas to share for future challenges, please add your comment to the post –>add challenge recommendation

If you want to learn Procreate and create digital art, check out the Procreate for Beginners live class with Ksenia Annis coming up November 10-11, 2022.

Challenge details:

Entries must be posted in the Facebook group: Watercolor – Beginners and Beyond
You may enter as often as you want
Open to all countries
Winner is chosen randomly
Include the topic hashtag in your post: #ArtistDay2022
Deadline October 28, 2022, 11:59 pm ET (New York time)
Winner announced Sunday, October 30, 2022
If you also post your painting on Instagram, tag @watercolorbeginnersandbeyond. You could be randomly chosen for a QoR watercolor sample dot card.