2014 Is Just Around The Corner

Hey guys! Tynan here!

Brittany and I have started working on the new season of 28 to Create (as you can see on my handy-dandy to-do list). As you may notice, reading this post, the site has had a bit of an overhaul to make it a little more user-friendly. If anyone has a problem viewing the site, please let us know!

We are VERY excited for the 2014 season. We had such a great response to the first season, we can't wait to see what you guys churn out for this upcoming year!

As we prepare for February to roll around, we do have a couple questions we'd like some feedback on. 

1. What would you like to see us improve on this upcoming year? 
2. Is there anything we (Tynan and Brittany) can do to help you out this upcoming year? 
3. Would you like to submit some prompt ideas? (Please do!)

You can submit your responses to these questions via e-mail  (28tocreate@gmail.com), leave a comment on this post, or (soon) send it to our new Tumblr account.

We wanted to open up prompts to our participants as well this year. Please keep in mind that we will not simply add all of the submissions to the list, but we will sort through them and add ones that we think people will enjoy, as well as adding some of our own.

As always, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
-T

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What now?

so how do you go on from 28 to Create?

Well, our instinct is to say keep creating. Or start refining.

If you have any pieces you feel particularly drawn to or proud of this month, pull them back out. Work on them some more. Realize you'll never be satisfied. Put it away. Bring it back out. Realize even if you'll never be satisfied, it's pretty damn good. Work on it some more. Then submit it to a magazine or a competition or a theatre or put it up for sale or paste it on your wall.

Now, if you want to keep creating as well, we suggest checking out this thing called March Mania. One of the participators in 28 to Create decided she wanted to keep going and created March Mania just for that purpose. The prompt ideas we've seen are great AND it's a little less time-restrictive than 28 to Create.

Whatever you do, keep being amazing and ART AWAY.

We love you all.

Brittany and Tynan

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DAY 28

Well, it's the final day of the challenge. AHHH.

Our prompt today is "the perfect moment". We saved it so we could end on a high note. But, here's the thing, we also wanna know what you got out of the challenge so we're giving you another option. You can do the prompt today (and we'd love that) AND/OR you can tell us about your experience over the course of this challenge. What you got out of it. What it was missing. What you'd like to see next year if you want to participate next year. Any ideas to make it better. Or a critique of your own work and experience during the challenge. Whatever you want.

We love you guys so much for participating and for being awesome and ART.

Tynan's
Brittany's

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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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