DAY 27

Today's prompt is distance. We figured it was particularly fitting considered we've come so far from the beginning of the challenge.

Distance can be used in a technical sense, of course. A painting of faraway mountains, a picture of stars, the two tiny feet between my car and the car I end up running into. Whatever. But it can also be used to describe emotional distance. Or time.

Tynan's distance
Brittany's distance

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DAY 26

Well, it's our last Two for Tuesday, guys, AND we only have two days until the challenge is officially over!

How does everyone feel? Any plans after this challenge is over? PLAN TO JOIN NEXT YEAR?

Our prompts today are vulnerability and strength. There're some interesting explorations of these attributes in many pieces of art and I think that's because art itself takes such a large amount of each to really affect its audience. They are two concepts that seem opposing but actually tend to run parallel in people. Let's explore a bit of each today.

Tynan's 2for2
Brittany's 2for2

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Day 25

Someone somewhere came up with this brilliant idea of telling everyone that beauty was only skin deep. That everything aesthetically pleasing went only as deep as one's dermis, and underneath was something ugly and twisted.

I don't know where they got their information from, but I know plenty of people that are beautiful on the inside.

Today's challenge is "skin deep". Whether you interpret that as beauty or truth or anything else is up to you. You can also take it beyond that theme, something under the surface, counter the "skin deep" mantra.

We're looking forward to see what you come up with, guys! We're into the home stretch with just 4 days left!



Tynan's beauty
Brittany's skin

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DAY 24

Alright! Today we're bringing back the idea of basing your art on someone else's.

side note, I think last time we mentioned this I called it "exquisite corpse" which is NOT true. Exquisite corpse is a form of it in a way but this idea originated as echo poems, where one person writes a stanza and the next person writes a stanza that is a reply to the previous one. Basically. (A great director named Tashina Richardson introduced me to all these surrealist techniques and they are super interesting. Go wikipedia them.)

Anyways, so what we're doing today is a type of echo art. Go find a piece (or pieces) by other people participating in the challenge. Find one that inspires you to create something else. And do it. Maybe a drawing makes you want to write dialogue or vice verse. Maybe you want to film a story or write a song using a poem as lyrics. Whatever you like, do it.

Make sure to share the original artist's work (I'd suggest linking to it in your post) to us as well!

Tynan's echo one
Brittany's echo 1  2

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DAY 23

Paradise Lost may be a heavy trope in art but something it's followed by at least half of the time is salvation. After the fall, there's a rise. And this appears in all genres. Luke loses his hand, goes through a bit of soul searching and turns into a kick ass Jedi. The couple in every romantic comedy ever has a huge misunderstanding and fall out but eventually learn the truth or make things right. We have our conflict and a happy ending. Or maybe it's not exactly happy. But it's at least an ending that is a new beginning.

Today's piece doesn't have to be a follow up to yesterday's (although it can be if you'd like) but the prompt definitely is. 

Tynan's salvation

Brittany's salvation

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DAY 22

Paradise Lost isn't just some crazy long poem about Adam's fall by Milton. It's a beautiful trope in almost every artistic and narrative form ever. Man falls. That's what happens. Because man isn't perfect. Chaucer had a whole tale full of tragic figures who fell from great heights and even plays about normal man falling (Death of a salesman) have prevailed the test of time.

We're asking for a story from you today. Not necessarily a written story. But in your creation today, be it a painting or typography or a photo or song or a story or what the hell ever, maybe show us someone's fall, a paradise lost.,

Tynan's paradise lost
Brittany's paradise lost

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DAY 21

Our prompt for today is loneliness.

Artists have always seemed to have a special relationship with loneliness. And maybe it's not that more artists are lonely than non-artists but that artists simply express it more often.

Artists (like most humans) tend to gravitate toward communities as well. And, oddly enough, some of our artists who seemed the loneliest were surrounded by peers. I think we tend to get so wrapped up in ourselves we forget we're not actually alone sometimes. Well, I know I do at least.

Let's explore loneliness today and be honest about it without being completely bogged down by it. We might be virtual, but we have a small online community here at least. And the nice thing is we can be a nudist community without anyone ever getting awkward.

Tynan's loneliness
Brittany's nudist colony loneliness

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