espressojoe
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NEW YEAR NEW MEDIA CHALLENGE
My New Year’s resolution for 2009 will be to participate in more challenges, more shows, and more art related events! That means I may have to break away from familiar territory and do something NEW! So I decided to host this challenge, and pass my resolution on to you!
The Challenge: Create something using a whole new media, a form of art you do not normally do. Break your comfort zone and try it!!
Always wanted to try something, but didn’t have the excuse? Well now you do! Have a box of art supplies collecting dust that someone bought you as a gift when they heard you were an artist, but didn’t ask what you did? Well, now you can “do it”!
The Rules:
1. Create a piece of artwork using media that is “new” to you. You should attempt to use a media that is new or alien to you. If you are one of those artists who have experimented in practically everything, then the artwork you do should be in a media you do not work with on a regular basis, something you haven’t used in at least 3 years, and preferably a media that you have never actively sold as an artist.
2. As this is a “new” media, the piece should be no more than 3 months old at the time of submission.
3. Entries can contain aspects of your training/standard form, but should be easily distinguished as different to even the most naïve non art people. Switching from painting with brushes to painting with your fingers is not acceptable, switching from painting 2 dimensional canvass to fully functional furniture might be (did you alter the furniture, have to employ new skills/craftsmanship, have to learn how to seal it so its fully functional, or did you just dump a tube of paint onto a new table and named it “abstract”.).
4. Think outside the box (unless you’re doing a shadow box type thing, then you can stay inside the box, or expand outside the box, up to you).
5. Keep it CHEAP!!! Don’t run out and buy $1000.00 in new art supplies/professional skill tools! There are many many media's out there that cost little or nothing to play with! Even if you have the $1000.00 to throw around, be fair to the competitors that don’t. This contest is about your creativity and ingenuity, not your pocket book!!
6. A post will be made on January 1st to start submitting, and submissions can be added throughout the month of January. Entries will be closed when I wake up on the morning of February 1st! You got a whole month to post, and you have more than a month extra time to come up with something! I know you are all creative, so get creative-ating!!
7. The most important rule; HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Winner may or may not get a prize, I haven’t decided on what might be appropriate for this show yet ;)
< Message edited by espressojoe -- 11/24/2008 3:54:22 PM >
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New Years New Media Challenge RULES POSTED - 
Maybee you can work with Jaba Leather, since you already have so many! 
Or does it really need to be even more different than that?
ok I'm honestly trying think what I haven't tried at some point LOL 
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