Art-stravaganza

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.

Submit your doodle here

Challenges and Padlets

Visit the Padlets to share your work and to comment on other people’s contributions

Collaborative drawing challenge

Collaborative Drawing Challenge

Random art challenges

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

3D Challenge

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

3D Challenge

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

Photography Challenge

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

Photography Challenge

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

Photography Challenge

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

Photography Challenge

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

Drawing Challenge

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)

Flick Book Animation from AccessArt on Vimeo.

Drawing Challenge 5: Touchy-feely

Drawing Challenge

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

Drawing Challenge

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

Drawing Challenge

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

Drawing Challenge

Let’s warm up together with a quick drawing aimed at getting your eye, hand and mind to connect. (5mins)

Flick Book Animation from AccessArt on Vimeo.

Drawing Challenge 2: Flick Book Animation

Drawing Challenge

Here’s a longer drawing challenge: create an animated flick book. A good one if you enjoy drawing cartoons. (100 mins)