Monthly Art Prompts: March 2022 (Formerly Weekly Art Events)

[ams]

The prompts for this month are:
Communicate
Salty
Purple

Create some art that is inspired by any of this month's prompts. Let your imagination soar. Turn on your creative juices.

All media and styles are welcome (drawing, painting, digital, photography, sculpture, multi-media, representational, abstract, etc.). It can be something done quickly, a finished work of art or anything in between. It can be created from your imagination, from life or a photo reference. If you use a photo reference, please make sure it has no applicable copyright restrictions.

Post your finished (or unfinished) art in this thread. Post any time during the month, as many times as you would like.

Tell us a little about the work if you so desire. For example, you could include the medium you used, where you got your inspiration or how long it took. When you post, it's always nice to "like" or comment on posts made earlier in the thread by other artists. We all like acknowledgement of our work!

Let the prompts spark your creativity. The most important thing is to have fun.

For help in finding reference images online, click on the link: Tutorial: How to Find Copyright-Free Reference Images.

If you have copyright-free images that go along with the prompts that you would like to share, you can post them in this thread for others to use.

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[Vivien]

Thanks for the March prompts Anne. I need to do some thinking!

 

[triss]

Thanks for this month's thread, ams. Looking forward to seeing how everyone will use this new format.

I thought I'd try to come up with an idea for something, and then kick it around over the month to see if it goes anywhere. Communicate - phones - the telephone pole outside my house. Acylic ink, charcoal, crayon, A2.

 

[ams]

Love your telephone pole Triss. What a great start to the month! I especially like how all of the wires meet at the same area of the pole.

 

[ams]

Here's one for communicate. I saw this image on Pixabay and it looked like the sparrows were talking to each other.

Ink & water-soluble graphite.

 

[JennieJo]

Purple 1 and 2. Pastel on paper, A4, studies for larger works.

 

[ams]

Nice JennieJo, very creative.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Looking great, hope to join in.
Triss, I like the telephone poles, who would think? Anne, beautiful chattering birds. Jennie Jo, love your purples.

 

[triss]

ams - Love your chattering sparrows - beautiful drawing, and I think you've brought out the communicate theme brilliantly with the emphasis on their eye contact.

JennieJo - Wonderful, exciting studies! The first one intrigues me the most, and I'd love to see if that develops into a larger work. I'm not great at working anything up into a finished painting, so if you have any suggestions to share about your process, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts.

 

[triss]

Hope you have time to join in this month, Jo.

Early morning telephone pole & roof tops, Acrylic ink & pastel, A2.

 

[ams]

Triss, I like the morning feel to this. It's amazing how the same subject can have such a different look at different times of the day and different colors.

 

[JennieJo]

ams - Love your chattering sparrows - beautiful drawing, and I think you've brought out the communicate theme brilliantly with the emphasis on their eye contact.

JennieJo - Wonderful, exciting studies! The first one intrigues me the most, and I'd love to see if that develops into a larger work. I'm not great at working anything up into a finished painting, so if you have any suggestions to share about your process, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts.

Me either, conversion is one of my new challenges. They usually end up quite different! I have a scaling tool that stops me having to measure sizes and perspectives. WI'll start about 21st of this month.

 

[joe1It]

thanks for prompt, Tris, ams, JemmoeJo you posted some wonderful works

 

[Jo Castillo]

Triss, beautiful morning. Love the contrasts.

I got out a small sketchbook and Sharpie fine line pen for a sketch for
Salty. These pretzels are pretty salty.

 

[ams]

I got out a small sketchbook and Sharpie fine line pen for a sketch for
Salty. These pretzels are pretty salty.

Jo, love your salty pretzels. Nicely done.

 

[ams]

Here's one for salty. All pistachios are not salted but we will assume these are.

Ink & water-soluble graphite in 6"x8" Stillman & Birn Alpha sketchbook.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Anne, beautiful pistachios.

I sketched in a small sketchbook for purple. Cross posted to the Scavenger Hunt From Life 15 as a sub for towel.
Purple napkin, reversible with yellow.

 

[ams]

Thanks Jo.

I like your purple napkin. I love painting or drawing soft fabric folds like this. You have all of the shadows just where they belong and that makes it.

 

[Enyaw]

Did this a few days ago. There is purple in the wall and if you drank all that booze you might have a little purple under you eyes.
11 x 14 oil on paper ..

 

[ams]

Nice one Wayne. I got a chuckle with your comment about the purple aftereffects.