The 31 Days of January - Selected Efforts

The 'Grown-Ups Table' (or GUT as it is fondly called) is Wendy MacNaughton's brainchild on Substack. As a practicing artist, she led her subscribers through January with daily themed art prompts that included great information about techniques, artists, and art genres among other topics.

It was a super experience and work too. Part of participation involved reading others' posts and commenting on as many as you could. With 700-1,000 posts per day, I'm sure some were missed, but I learned a ton from others. I saw innovative interpretations of the prompts, learned about what people were intending with their work, and what memories they may have chosen to represent visually -- all sprinkled with some laughs along the way. Thank you Wendy and the GUT community!

Photos of some of my favorite work that I did (aside from the blind contour drawing posted in January) are below. The materials I used throughout the month were colored pens and markers plus watercolor on sketchbook paper. I'm loving how my sketchbook has developed quite a bit of personality as a result!

Drawing some ornaments

A feeling mandala

Taking a hike

Collage of three blind contours

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