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Dearest creative spirits,

Thank you all for joining me on our art challenge adventure! It has been a meaningful and joyful time for me, and I hope the same for you! Thanks, too, to those who attended our Zoom pARTy this Saturday; It was wonderful to hear everyone's reflections and share their favorite pieces.

I am proud to award ALL of you with this well deserved certificate! Display it with pride!! You're all creative super heroes in my book.

Wishing you all much love and blessed creative journeys!

Best,

I have been busy with life and slacking off on a regular art practice lately. I am getting on a plane at 1pm in Florida headed back to Boston. Unfortunately, I will miss todays Zoom. If I do some airport or in flight art I will post. The group has been so fun. It has reinforced the importance of creativity in my life and I’ve learned how important community is. Thank you Peyton and all!

Dear friends, I hope to see as many of you as possible today at 3pm on Zoom - link below. We'll discuss and celebrate our time together during our art challenge and share our favorite creations.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86128035123?pwd=iH0CtQkIJc4P1iKOgCy8SfaHB91Lto.1

My goal was to not be so serious-a bit silly, but this was done, Just for Fun. One of my 3 lessons was to not be so serious. Life is serious enough-I did the 30 Day Challenge for the joy and bit of distraction it provides. If this picture helps anyone smile I've achieved my goal.

I am out of time right now, but later today the lessons I learned will be posted.

This was an experiment an attempt to show changes in the sky and water over the course of a day. It was inspired by 3 of the lessons I have learned from the 30 day Art Challenge, which I will post when I complete prompt 30.

One of the lessons is to challenge myself-try something new, especially what I believe is difficult. The results may not always be totally satisfactory ( to me) , but I always enjoyed the process and learned something new to apply to future artistic efforts.

Dark gray paper ,Oil Pastel, and a soft charcoal pencil were used to create this picture.

In my haste to finally finish before the week takes off again, I forgotto put the lessons learned. So many, it's hard to put it down to just 3, but here we go. First of all, THANK YOU, PEYTON for getting this idea out there and setting up the site and managing it and cheering us all on - I'm hoping to look at everybody's stuff for a little bit tonight, FINALLY!

Lesson one - I'd been thinking for a while now, maybe I can find a way to just spend a little time some nights during the work week, doing a LITTLE something artwise, instead of always waiting till the weekend. I was hoping that this art challenge would get me to do that at least sometimes. It did, but it also made me frustrated and just reaffirmed how much I want to retire so I can have mo…

In my haste to finally finish before the week takes off again, I forgotto put the lessons learned. So many, it's hard to put it down to just 3, but here we go. First of all, THANK YOU, PEYTON for getting this idea out there and setting up the site and managing it and cheering us all on - I'm hoping to look at everybody's stuff for a little bit tonight, FINALLY!

Lesson one - I'd been thinking for a while now, maybe I can find a way to just spend a little time some nights during the work week, doing a LITTLE something artwise, instead of always waiting till the weekend. I was hoping that this art challenge would get me to do that at least sometimes. It did, but it also made me frustrated and just reaffirmed how much I want to retire so I can have mo…