Category: Online Challenges

The underlying energy of an image is often determined by deliberate color choice. Complementary Colors are those that are opposite each other on the color wheel (Red and Green, Yellow and Purple, Orange and Blue).  When used together, these combinations create a certain vibration or resonance within the image. For this challenge, make an image that employs this principle of color theory.

• Complementary colors, please
• 2d or 3D
• Any surface, any medium
• Drawing from direct observation preferred where possible.

One-week deadline: You have until May 24, so get drawing! Send your images to RNAC.workshops@gmail.com.

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APOLOGIES TO EVERYONE FOR THE LATE POSTINGS TO THIS ONE. THEY’RE ALL GREAT!

Olive, pea, forest, parrot, spring, grass, lime. This is the moment of the year when green calls to us with limitless variety. Make an image in which green dominates.

Simple rules:

• Color (well, mostly green)
• 2D or 3D
• Any surface, any medium
• Drawing from direct observation preferred where possible.

Send your images to RNACworkshops@gmail.com Deadline is May 17.

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Light and shadow are vital elements in image-making. Shadows define objects and create mood. Make an image in which SHADOW is the most important element.

Simple rules:

• Color or B&W
• 2D or 3D
• Any surface, any medium
• Drawing from direct observation preferred where possible.

Send your images to RNACworkshops@gmail.com. Deadline May 9(ish).

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Uh-oh—I left my house without my sketchbook! Arg! Luckily, I found a paper bag (or a stone or an apple…). For this challenge, draw on a non-traditional object or surface. 

Rules are simple:

• Color or B&W
• 2D or 3D
• Any surface, as long as it’s unexpected
• Drawing from direct observation preferable

One-week deadline: You have until May 3, so get drawing! Send your images to RNAC.workshops@gmail.com.

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Apparently the virus has triggered a surge in sales of jigsaw puzzles and other games. For this Art Challenge, play a game (video, vintage, card, word) and then draw it.

Rules are simple:

• Color or B&W
• 2D or 3D
• Any surface, any medium
• Drawing from direct observation preferable

Two-week deadline for this one; you have until April 25. Send your images to RNAC.workshops@gmail.com .

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Keep a sketchbook and bag of pencils in your car (which you should always do anyway). Stop to draw without leaving the car. Bring a snack, try to park so sun streams into the car, choose some good music, and go for it! Deadline in one week: April 11.

Send your images to RNAC.workshops@gmail.com. Rules are:

• Color or B&W
• 2D or 3D
• Any surface, any medium
• Drawing from direct observation preferable

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Make an image of a chair from your house, perhaps the chair you would offer to a visitor. Let’s visit each other virtually!

• Color or B&W
• 2D or 3D
• Any surface, any medium
• Drawing from direct observation preferred where possible.

Send your images to RNAC.workshops@gmail.com.

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This isn’t a drawing — but it’s drawn from Thoreau. In Walden, in the chapter Winter Visitors, he writes:

There too, as everywhere, I sometimes expected the Visitor who never comes.  The Vishnu Purana says, “The householder is to remain at eventide in his courtyard as long as it takes to milk a cow, or longer if he pleases, to await the arrival of a guest.”  I often performed this duty of hospitality, waited long enough to milk a whole herd of cows, but did not see the man approaching from the town.

From RNAC member Karl Frank

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Here’s where we’ll be posting submissions to the first Challenge: Seeing Outside the Box. Your assignment, should you choose to accept: Make an image that includes one or more eyes (your cat, a potato, a hurricane…).

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This Challenge is closed. But there are new ones here. Don’t feel like playing but want to get your work out there? Get on the Rocky Neck Facebook or Instagram pages. Just send your name, the image, title of the work, medium and a sentence or two about the work to: Rnac.operationsmanager@gmail.com