Dark, light? Lighter, darker?

Thank you FHAS artists for responding to the first weeks autistic challenge. artistic challenge.
If you don't fancy doing your nature work in a different color that is okay too.
The idea is to keep us active and have some fun.
I guess you all have access to a smartphone these days so I shall give some tips in the next weeks about using your smartphone to help you with drawing and painting. As we are stuck more or less indoors this is a valuable tool to use.
Of course you can also use a camera for the some of the same things but I'll go into that later.
Sharpen those pencils, wet those watercolours and let's get going friends. 

So you're stuck at home, huh!

How about a weekly challenge?

Simple stuff just to keep your pencils sharp and the mind ticking over.

We're proposing a subject each week that you can do in ANY MEDIUM you wish.

It can take you 15 minutes or 15 hours, we don't mind.
But we'd like to see what you do each week.

WEEK ONE
The proposal is to start with something easy. Have you got a garden or can you see something out of a window that is plant or tree?

If you have access to a garden, grab a twig, a leaf, a stalk, a flower ... whatever and take it back inside to capture on paper.

Now, here's the catch. Don't be tempted to draw or paint your tree/branch/flower in its realistic colours. How about a blue rose, a red tree, a green strawberry... You see what I mean.

If you follow this line of thought, you'll have to think in tone and not colour. That makes it a bit more tricky but with wild colour, it becomes fun.



Nothing wrong with this purple portrait...It gets the cute message across.

So don't be bothered by traditional colours. And why stick to just one colour? Splash out.

Click on the actual Fish Hoek Art Society blogpage to show you'd like to take part and we'll see how many of you are game to rise to the challenge.

When you have done your work, take a snap on your cellphone and send it to the web mistress at the email address at the top of the blogspot page. We'll include these in the following week's challenge.

Over to you, artist friends.