Daily Art Pact

DAP theme for the week of December 14, 2009 is Texture.  Make art that uses texture in some way.  Any kind!

Drew

Ok, since I’ve been a big slacker, I declare the week of December 8, 2009 a free week.  Someone suggested a week of shirtless casanovas throughout literary history, but I think we’ll just say you’re free to draw what you want this week.

Drew

For the week of November 30, 2009, the Daily Art Pact theme shall be “The gods”.  Illustrate your concept of the (false) god for whom the day is named. Here’s a link to the wiki article discussing each day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week-day_names

Drew

Chas Foreman has provided us with the theme for the week of November 23, 2009 and it is Yellow.  Excellent theme!  This is going to be a good week.  Good one Chas.

Andrew

This is going to be another hard one:

The Daily Art Pact theme for the week of November 16, 2009 is Music.  This week’s theme is related to Chas Foreman’s theme in that we will be responding to another artist’s work.  I’ve selected 5 of my favorite songs that you will listen to and then create an artistic image based on the mental pictures the pieces cause your mind’s eye to see.

In order to comply with copyrights, I’ve set a link to each of the songs on iTunes below.  The snippets are usually good enough to get a good mental image, but if you want the whole song, you’ll have to purchase them… sorry…

TECH INSTRUCTIONS:  Use FireFox or Safari and make sure you have iTunes installed.  I happen to know most of you already do.  If anyone has major problems getting these snippets let me know and we can fix them.

Monday:  Pyramid Song by Radiohead

Tuesday:  You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son by Wolf Parade

Wednesday:  Hot Bat by Man Man

Thursday:  Bolero by Ravel

Friday:  Farewell Ride by Beck

Here’s the theme for this week:

Yes, it is that time of the week again.  The time when a new theme is introduced into this daily art world.  I decided to go with simple for mine, yet still fun.  This week’s theme will be CHARACTERS.  The goal of this theme is to practice the art of interjecting personality into your pieces.  So go out there, have some fun, and create some greatness!

- Provided by the excellent Mr. Henry Reyes.

Good one Henry!

The next theme for the DAP is finally here!  Each day this week will have a different perspective/focus in terms of the intended focal point of the entry.

The order in which you use the five options is up to you.  Using one scene and developing that world with different angles/lighting is certainly an option.  Deciding to use completely random/unrelated entries is fine too.  Be as simple or as complex as you like.  This is simply an exercise on how to further develop angle choices to tell a story.

1. Front and Center – draw the viewers attention to the foreground.

2. Background – draw the viewers attention to an element in the distance.

3. Side/Profile – allow the viewer to see your scene/subject from the side

4. Above – give a “birds eye view”

5. Below – give the viewer the sense that they are looking up on the action/scene

This week I hope you’ll humor me and participate in this week’s theme, which, I hope will be an interesting experience for the group. Each day this week will have a literary excerpt associated with it. I encourage the group to create an art entry based on the excerpt given (don’t look for context). Doing this will challenge our creative thinking skills and will reveal a variety of creative possibility from one specific source.  I hope we enjoy anticipating each others interpretation. If you would like to join the Daily Art Pact, send me a comment with your Web site so I can add you to the group.

Monday:

The darkness was no less intense than in the pit below, and yet two objects were distinctly seen. They resembled a fixed and obscure flame. They were motionless. Though lustrous themselves they created no illumination around them. -From Edgar Huntley by Charles Brockden Brown

Tuesday:

“It gets into everything. It gets into all the smallest cracks and shakes everything apart. Just shivers and shivers until there’s nothing left but dust, then it shivers the dust, and I try to keep it out, but it gets bigger and bigger, it rolls over everything, till it fills the whole sky and the whole earth.” -From Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

Wednesday:

…he does not know how to use a good man when he finds one. I have innumerable arts of magic. Why should I be put to mind the horses? Look what is written on this banner. – From Monkey by Wu Ch’eng-En

Thursday:

Unfortunately, however, Midas could fail; he did. His path did not lead unerringly upward. He starved because whenever he touched a biscuit or ham sandwich it turned into gold. – From The Fallacy of Success G.K. Chesterton

Friday:

For one second he was in a kind of vegetable broth of exploding tubes and bladders; next moment… From Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

The Daily Art Pact is the idea child of Andrew Raiford. The purpose of DAP is to create a community of artists who post daily works to practice artistic skills and encourage one another. Andrew kicked off DAP with a theme of Fruits and Veggies.