This event took place on Wednesday 8 April.
Livestream recording
Welcome to Art-stravaganza
What is an Art-stravaganza, I hear you cry? Well, it’s like Sports Day, but with art! We will be hosting a live event where you can tune in and participate in various visual Art Challenges to have some fun, perhaps try something new, stretch those creative muscles, and win points for your House. You will be able to submit your entries from Wednesday 8 April to Friday 10 April via this website. In addition to the Art Challenges, we are inviting you to share your artwork with the HKA community: you can submit any visual artwork you have created (can be recently, or from before) to our online exhibition Padlet here. House points for all contributions! We will also be creating a collaborative community-wide art piece: so make sure you’re there to get involved! Finally, we will have some special guests from our diverse community, sharing their artistic talents with us.
Collaborative Drawing Challenge
If you only complete one drawing challenge today, make it this one! The HKA community is coming together to create a large collaborative drawing. No technical skills required! If you can doodle, this one’s a doddle. In addition to the Art Challenges, we are inviting you to share your artwork with the HKA community: you can submit any visual artwork you have created (can be recently, or from before) to our online exhibition Padlet here. House points for all contributions! We will also be creating a collaborative community-wide art piece: so make sure you’re there to get involved! Finally, we will have some special guests from our diverse community, sharing their artistic talents with us.
Challenges and Padlets
Visit the Padlets to share your work and to comment on other people’s contributions
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- 3D Challenge
- Collaborative Drawing Challenge
- Drawing Challenge
- Photography Challenge
- Random Art Challenges
Collaborative drawing challenge
If you only complete one drawing challenge today, make it this one! The HKA community is coming together to create a large collaborative drawing. No technical skills required! If you can doodle, this one’s a doddle. (30 mins)
Random art challenges
Wanna just make something fun and crazy and a bit random? Try one of these Task Party challenges! Use the resources available to you at home to make the item in your task. Once you are finished, you should take a photo. Have fun and be as creative as you can! When you upload your photo, include the task title. (30 mins) Spin The Wheel
3D Challenge 2: Trashion
Love fashion? Got lots of recycling? Combine the two! Create a piece of wearable art from recyclable materials. See here for inspiration. (100 mins) Trash Ideas
3D Challenge 1: Nature sculpture
Have a garden? Live near the beach? Go out and make some art work in nature. You can see Andy Goldworthy’s work for inspiration. Think colour, texture and pattern. Photograph your creation in situ. (120 mins) Andy Goldsworthy nature artwork
Photography Challenge 4: Recreate an artwork
Choose a famous artwork and recreate it using photography! It could be a portrait, landscape, still life, sculpture - anything! Make sure you include a picture of the original artwork in your upload! (30 mins) Famous Paintings as Photographs Getty Museum - recreating artwork Search for artwork
Photography Challenge 3: Invent a character
Invent a character for yourself. Dress up, act it out, create a scene. Capture that person’s personality in a photo. (30 mins) See Cindy Sherman’s “film stills”
Photography Challenge 2: Photograph your meals
Enjoying the food at home? Take some great photos and share with us! Think about the background, lighting, layout etc. (30 mins)
Photography Challenge 1: Stop motion
Create a stop motion animation with clothes or other objects at home: take a series of photos, moving the objects slightly each time (try to keep the camera in the same place). Then, use an app of your choice to animate them. (120 mins) Instructions using iMovie to create stop motion Stop Motion Example
Drawing Challenge 6: Draw a self-portrait
Got a mirror, pencil and paper? Draw yourself! Or, find a friend and draw them. Maybe you can draw each other at the same time… Any style or medium welcome. (20 - 30 mins)
Drawing Challenge 5: Touchy-feely
This quick drawing challenge encourages you to draw what you feel, not what you see. Use your non-drawing hand to feel the object, while you draw the textures at the same time. (5mins)
Drawing Challenge 4: Copy a drawing upside down
This drawing is a classic exercise which encourages the chatty part of your mind to shut down, and the visual, holistic part of the mind to open up. Give it a go, and you’re sure to be surprised by the outcome. (30 mins) Download:Picasso’s drawing of Igor Stravinsky / Durer’s drawing of his wife, Agnes
Drawing challenge 3: Non-dominant hand drawing
This quick drawing gets you to slow down and work deliberately by asking you to use the hand you do NOT normally write or draw with. Expect some weird and wonderful outcomes. (5 mins)
Drawing challenge 1: Blind Continuous line drawing
Let’s warm up together with a quick drawing aimed at getting your eye, hand and mind to connect. (5mins)
Drawing Challenge 2: Flick Book Animation
Here’s a longer drawing challenge: create an animated flick book. A good one if you enjoy drawing cartoons. (100 mins)
