Get Inspired & Creative with Art Challenges! (free online class - #3 of 9)

A big round of applause for all 25 of you that played in the second part of our online class: Get Inspired by Your Reading Materials! So many cool collages to view! You can see most of them in our YahooGroup (Photos section: "Helga's Blog: #2 Weekly Art Challenge").   My kitty, Bruno, volunteered to pick all 3 winners this week (scroll down a bit). Each of the winners get to pick 3 ARTchix sheets of their choice. Hooray!

And now, let's continue expanding our creativity together with a new art challenge!

Art Challenge #3 (of 9): Get Inspired by Color!

First, go through your magazines, catalogs and/or photos and find one that has a color scheme that you like. I picked this page out of a Marie Claire Idees magazine (love this mag!!!). Love the bright reds and cute kitty!

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Now, pull out supplies in the colors that you see in your photo or magazine page. You may want to give yourself a time limit of 15 minutes or something like that. Otherwise you may find yourself lost in your supplies. lol. I pulled out Cute Kitties, red german scrap, an old letter, fabrics, decorative papers, and velvet leaves.

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Now, where to start? You could just start making a collage out of the supplies that you pulled out. But I decided to start this collage by making my background first. I wanted to challenge myself to keep playing with the round stamp that I used in the last challenge. (An excellent way to expand your creativity is to keep playing with the same thing and see where it takes you.)

So, for this background, I stamped my round circles. And then I used a hole punch to punch circles out of the decorative papers that I had pulled out. I adhered them with a glue stick. And then I painted the red background with Daniel Smith watercolor paints. Love their colors...really nice and vibrant. When I was done, I sprayed a bit of shimming mist across the whole page for fun.

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Play and start moving the items that you pulled out around in a pleasing way. There is no right or wrong so just play and enjoy this creative time.

What I did: I started cutting and adding images. I wanted to bring some elements in from the magazine page (in addition to color) so I added the cats and a letter.

At some point, I decided that I wanted to add white dots across my background. To get them to be more uniform, I layed this Red Mesh on top and then I put white dots in the middle of each section...it was a great help.

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Ta da! Here is my finished collage. As you can see, I ended up making a house shape with 3 kitties inside and check out all of that red, wowza! I had so much fun playing with all of my red supplies that I couldn't resist spelling our "FUN." Tee hee! You'll also find Red Wings (the special of the week), Lucky button, Victorian Roses and see that cool bit of ribbon with nests - if all goes as planned, we'll have it for sale on our site in mid November. I bought some in Vancouver and decided that we all need to get our hands on some! It's really lovely!

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I glued the magazine page into my journal on the left side as my reminder to show what inspired this collage. If you're using a journal, please do this too. : )

Art Challenge #3 (or 9) SUMMARY: Get Inspired by Color! Pick a magazine page, catalog page or photo that has colors that you like. Pull out supplies in those colors and make a collage. Be sure to include circles and dots in any medium you'd like.

*Please SAVE YOUR SCRAPS and hold onto them for a future challenge.*

How To Play in This Art Challenge: Make a collage inspired by colors from a page in a magazine, catalog or photo and include dots and circles. (Please show us the page or photo that inspired your collage too).

Scan them and post them online to your blog, flickr account, website or our YahooGroup (Photos section: "Helga's Blog: #3 Weekly Art Challenge").

Next, click on "Comments" at the bottom of this post and leave a note with a link to your collage so I know where to see it online. In addition, please link back to my blog. 

Deadline: Tuesday morning, November 3, 2009.

Prizes: My cute kitties will randomly pick 3 participants and they will each get to pick 3 free ARTchix sheets of their choice! Hooray!

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WINNERS from Last Week's Art Challenge: Get Inspired by Your Reading Materials!

Hooray for the wonderful, creative 25 artists that made cool collages out of their favorite magazine! Bruno picked 3 winners which will each get 3 free ARTchix sheets of their choice. Here's who he picked:

I printed all of the artists' names, cut them out, spread them out on a table and put a treat next to each name. Then Bruno got to pick 3 treats to scarf down! The name that was attached to that treat won! What fun! Congrats to Joy, Sabine and Carol!

Comments

[Sid]

Loving that collage !!

[Pamela McKenzie]

Congratulations Joy, Sabine, and Carol! Way to go having Bruno pick the three of you lucky ducky's!
He's just lovin all those three treats to himself too! Pam

[Sabine Busch]

Thank you Bruno for picking my name! This challenge is so much fun and I can´t wait to start my next collage.
Sabine

[marina]

Love your kitties picking the winners.
This is getting exciting, I'll have to get to work and do mine.....

[Carol Stocker]

Well color me lucky! Thanks Helga for the lovely gift of three collage sheets and thank you darling Bruno for "accepting" my treat. Can't wait to go shopping AND to start the next challenge piece. I am loving this! Hugs, Carol

[Linda]

Congrats to Joy , Sabine, and Carol!!! Those kitties sure know how to pick em!!!
LOVE the new challenge-especailly the color you chose Helga-our faves-n'est-ce pas??? Sadly,(well not really) I'll be at the beach for the next 4 days so I will not meet this deadline as I'm only taking the clothes I need. Look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

[Cat Dodt-Ellis]

Congrats to Sabine, Joy, & Carol....you have the luck of the cat this week!!!
Enjoy your goodies!!!

[Wisteriax X. Gravy]

So much FUN!!!
Here is my color challenge entry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pushmeover/4058754091/sizes/l/

~Karen

[marina]

here is mine:

http://theboxofcolors.blogspot.com/2009/10/82-art-challenge-3.html

marina

[Jan DeBellis]

I just posted #3 on the YAHOO GROUP page. It wouldn't let me upload the pic of the inspirational magazine page, so I'll try that again later. LOVED this challenge....mine is called BLUE (for obvious reasons!).

[Michele Truex]

Iam new to your challenges.They seem like a lot of fun.Iam not sure how to get you to my flickr account (micheleart) mine is called The time, the Place and the girl.

[Sabine Busch]

My blue collage is here:

http://stempeltanz.blogspot.com/2009/11/art-challenge-3-of-9-get-inspired-by.html

I had a lot of fun - as every week....
Sabine

[Wendy Mann]

My Purple & Green collage is uploaded.
Helga - I am hooked!
Wendy

[Carol Abel]

Thank you so much for organizing these challenges and thanks to your kitties for picking me as a winner in the first challenge. I was too late to participate in number two but here is my pink-white-gold offering for number three.
http://traveller2006.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/helgas-challenge-number-3/
Carol A

[Marion]

The third part has been hard for me, but I´ve had fun with it:
http://bockel24.blogspot.com/2009/11/helgas-online-class-part-3.html

[Mikel OBrien]

Sorry to have missed this challenge, but my cats would not cooperate with the glue stick and scissors as well as Bruno did in picking the winners... Maybe next time! :)

[Cat Dodt-Ellis]

I'll be posting my challenge #3 at the Yahoo group in a few minutes....I am having a BALL!!!!

[Jan DeBellis]

HEY GIRLS....I can't access my YAHOO page because I have been HACKED! IF you got an email from me that said I was in London and had an accident, THAT IS NOT ME! I was actually at the gym working out!
ANYHOW, please accepy my apologies if you got one, and YAHOO and I are fixing the problem today. Since I can't get into my acct, I thought I'd tell you thru Helga. Hope that was ok.

[Gena Boone-Curtis]

Hi Helga...Here is mine
http://www.grbc123.blogspot.com
Gena :}

[Buddhini Ekanayake]

Congrats to winners. And here is my entry for challenge three.

http://buddhini.blogspot.com/2009/11/helgas-art-challenge-3-of-9.html

Thanks Helga and all for all the inspiration :)

[robin dudley howes]

This is beautiful Helga!
robin