Well. You did it! Doesn't it feel awesome to be done??? Time to celebrate. And clean your house. And hug your spouse. And clean your studio!
Seriously, it's awesome that you participated in this challenge. I would love to know in the comments below how it went. What was the best thing that happened in this 30 in 30? Tomorrow you can post a collage of all of the paintings that you completed in the 30 in 30. I usually create my collage with an on-line program called picmonkey. Just go to PicMonkey and select "create a collage". You can use one of their designs or you can design your own. To make a collage with 30 photos you will need to design your own with six rows and five columns (or you can use one with close to 30 spaces and just add the additional ones). Then you can drag your uploaded photos in to the collage until you are done. (When you drag in a photo, you can see where to place the photos as you move them around. If you move them around carefully a small gray bar will appear and you can create columns and rows by adding more photos.) One suggestion I have for you is to be sure to use lower resolution photos as it won't upload very large file sizes. If you try to upload all 30 and it won't do it, just re-size your photos until it works! It's a fun tool to use. You can change the width and color of the grid lines between the photos and then save the completed collage as a jpeg on your computer. Please post your collages here! And it doesn't matter how many paintings you completed. Create a collage to show off the paintings you created this month. And post it on this blog tomorrow!
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I didn’t think I’d make it a few times, falling asleep at the brush so to speak. But, I did it. All 30 paintings a revelation. I think my trees and skies improved and I found some interesting color mixes thanks to Bob Ross. His legend lives on. More about converting oil to Acrylic and testing his various techniques on my last 30 blogs. 3/2/2018 03:55:23 am
I got painting creep on this one. The size of the paintings got larger causing them to take longer to do so I was always racing to finish usually on the weekends. I dry my paintings under a humidifier to prevent crazing and I would quickly run out of drying rack space! Very hectic. 3/2/2018 04:15:59 am
I did it! I’ve participated for about 3 years and this is the first time I’ve actually completed 30 paintings. I went from 400 visitors to over 1300. That’s the reason I participate in this madness, lol. It drives folks to my website. 3/2/2018 06:11:02 pm
Congrats! We also do it because we like the punishment of a creative marathon, ya? ...I didn't come close to all 30, but maybe next year! 3/2/2018 05:11:27 am
Wow!! I loved this challenge so much. I got more comfortable sharing my work. I painted a couple days ahead so I never felt like I was playing catch-up. My paintings got looser throughout the challenge. Loved it! Thanks for hosting this, Leslie! 3/2/2018 06:12:34 am
I can't believe I actually finished this challenge. I missed one day, but made up for it so I could say I did all 30. I thought I was going to lose my mind toward the end though. The stress of finishing a painting up to my standards every day was a bit much after a while, but I was determined to finish anyway. Next time I'm going to try to get a week ahead so I can take a couple breaks at the end when I need them. It wasn't all bad though, I have some really good paintings from this challenge, some of my best honestly. It also helped me paint faster and with a nice loose style. I think I'm going to have to do this challenge again at some point. 3/2/2018 06:53:05 am
Like many others, I've tried to do the 30 in 30 challenge for years, but I never completed more than a handful of paintings. I was happy about that in the past, but knew I could do more. I did some soul searching about who I was as a person and a painter while tending to my Dad in hospice during his final time here on the earth. Painting nature in watercolor has always been a meditative, spiritual, contemplative activity that I find restorative. I have been painting and sketching nature (and occasionally Dad) and writing down the nuggets of wisdom and life lessons that he shared as I walked this journey with my father, but I have rarely shared it with others. For the 30 in 30, I continued this practice and painted thirty 5"x7" lotus flower studies in watercolor. I used some of the hundreds of photos that I took of the Manchurian Lotus flowers that are over 1,000 years old in Washington, DC. The 30 in 30 challenge was the perfect way to kick start my blog where I share my flower paintings, my struggles, rejections, and successes, and some of what I've learned. Connecting the 30 in 30 paintings with my daily life, something I care deeply about that others can relate to (as most of us have lost something or someone precious to us), and being willing to not be perfect has made the difference in going from painting a handful of paintings and posting 1 or 2 to painting and posting daily for 30 days in a row. 3/2/2018 06:57:13 am
Replying with (hopefully) a correct link to my blog. Always grateful to learn and grow. 3/2/2018 07:03:28 am
Leslie ... thank you so so much for doing this for us. 3/2/2018 08:20:08 am
Leslie, thank you so much for hosting the challenge (again) . And with your broken bones to boot. You are brave. 3/2/2018 09:22:52 am
Leslie, you are wonderful to create this activity for us all. Your Challenges brighten the winter, and have led me to try new things! It sounds like you were in some kind of accident, but still were able to manage this. Wishing you a full recovery. Thanks, Leslie! What a challenge! I had to take 3 days off with sickness and work, and as I really wanted to get to 30, I have 3 more to go! I think I got tighter in my painting during the process. I really enjoyed it, though it's been mad fitting them all in. Thoroughly enjoyable and a huge achievement. Well done everyone! and thanks Leslie! x 3/2/2018 01:51:41 pm
Leslie, thanks for hosting this bi-annual painting challenge for the 11th consecutive time since January of 2013! I just read all the preceding comments here and am so touched by all the positive ways these challenges have touched people's lives. Your energy and spirit continues to shine strong, even in the midst of physical illness and injury. Your presence and these challenges are such an inspiration and life changer for so many! I really relaxed and enjoyed this challenge and didn't stress or try to create a cohesive collection. I feel almost like an old veteran now, lol ... This is my 9th, Yikes! There are quite a few more paintings that were done in Feb. that I didn't post here also, but now it's time to regroup and refocus! Onward to March .... Thanks again for the charge, Leslie! You rock on girl!! 3/2/2018 02:30:58 pm
I just wanted to thank you, from the bottom of my little birdy heart! This has been, hands down, the best and most successful challenge for me yet. I have done this 8 times and the take away this time has been immense. I have gotten tons of positive feed back, sold just about 1/4 of my paintings so far and have a body of work that I feel great about. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Leslie! :))) 3/2/2018 05:17:26 pm
Tweeted my watercolors of them with our Curling Olympians at PyeongChang, Korea, AND their response: This challenge coincided with my every-four-year Olympic Curling celebration. I watch. I paint. I painted a dozen curling paintings while watching the curling, lots of fun, and shared them not only in the challenge but also via Tweeting with our three USA teams, men's, women's, and mixed double's. And I got a commission from Team USA's men's captain before they won the Gold. "If you painted your rendition of this one, I'd buy it in a heartbeat! Would like to purchase many of your works from the past week!" - John Schuster, Skip, USA Men's Curling Team. It was a blast, getting their ongoing reactions to my watercolors. I even got a Tweet only hours before their Gold Medal winning game. And now Maine's largest paper is doing a feature on my Olympic Curling Watercolors, and Captain, John Schuster's commission, and they're contacting John, too. Unbelievable. As far as that commission, I Tweeted: "John, that painting you'd like of that curling memory win, working on it, sorry not for sale; it's a thank you gift for you and your family for all the curling memories you've given, and are giving, to us." You can see lot's more about this on my art blog, www.theartobruce.blogspot.com. Tweeting? Watercolors? Olympics? Who knew? -Bruce 3/2/2018 06:44:49 pm
First time to do a 30 in 30. I have wanted to draw from the Old Masters so I bought 2 books about Bouguereau. I love the sweetness of his paintings. It was harder than I thought. Strayed onto other subjects just to get it done some days but was glad to draw. I just don't make time to draw like I should. I got into hands some and loved the angels but they are really hard. Thanks for hosting this. Sorry about your foot. 3/2/2018 07:29:18 pm
I don't know if it was February, or the busy month I had outside of the challenge, but this one flew by. Maybe it was having a rest after the holiday bustle. This is the first challenge, where I did not feel like I was struggling. I was up late painting most nights, but I did not feel pressured or stressed. That was nice for a change! LOL. And I can see how my work improved as the month went on. 3/2/2018 08:44:36 pm
What a lovely month Leslie! Tiring but full of satisfaction at having met your Painting Challenge. It was also a real pleasure making new friends on the way and getting to admire so many beautiful paintings. Thanks for the opportunity. Leave a Reply. |