Ten Minute Artist Weekly Rounds up the week’s daily prompts along with a few interesting finds of the week. It’s perfect catching up on any prompts you missed or if you prefer an hour of art making on the weekend rather than 10 minutes a day. You choose to receive daily and/or weekly editions here.
This Week’s Assignments
MONDAY: This week I started a new approach to parenting especially with regards to performance. I also applied it in parenting my inner artist who is also a child. The focus was allowing a love of art to emerge through play rather than forcing it.
TUESDAY: I made a rule for overcoming distraction, it may not work perfectly, but the more I do it the greater my self awareness, and this action changed my behaviour enough that the algorithm is also responding.
WEDNESDAY: When I made these 1 minute drawings with a think pen, I didn’t realize they would inform the work I would do, 2 days later. You could take Wednesday, Thursday and Friday’s prompts as a mini project.
THURSDAY: Work and play blended for me as I approached things more playfully. So you got a little peak on how I make textures for my book illlustrations. The play part was fun, but I should also mention it took a day of editing, to craft it into something i was happy with for work.
FRIDAY: I made a four piece collage, it was super quick and fun, but it was only so successful because of all the little daily things I did throughout the week. When I started the week I had no map for where the daily practice would take me, but it did take me to very interesting places.
If you try any of the prompts, you can share them here in the chat galley.
This week’s prompts hinted at my process for making illustrations for picturebooks, in the coming week I’ll do a deep dive on that process in more detail for paid subcribers.
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Coming up…
✏️ Mr. Tom Froese is appearing as a Guest Teacher in ArtGym on November 4th cohosted by Katie Stack and myself. We will be giving away a copy of Tom’s book ‘Drawing is Important’ in which I make a small cameo. This one is for Art Gym members.
🇵🇹 My retreat to Portugal in March is just one click away from being confirmed, thats right we just need one more person to enrol to confirm the trip, and send a bunch of us to a once in a lifetime creative experience!
Artist on substack
I think a good way to close out the weekly edition is to mention a few artist on substack that lit me up this week-ish.
Zsofi Lang ’s 2 upcoming books will be out in March, this is really exciting for me because I learned that something she read in THIS newsletter prompted her to reach out to this specific publisher who ended up commissioning the books!
If you missed it, Austin Kleon recently took us on a tour of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum (watch the video)
Finally (for this week), I fully buy into every thing Deb said:
And I’ll leave you with these parting words, try to allow more play into your life and see what emerges.
