We’re going into our final weekend here and today is one of our art assignment pieces in addition to the question. On the question side, we want to talk about appropriation-based work where we take an existing thing and manipulate … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 29: Your Favorite Appropriation-based Artwork
As you may see some of us over in the politics thread say from time to time, all art is political! Today, we want to dig into your favorite piece of political artwork, be it protest designs, editorial cartoons, or … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 28: Your Favorite Political Artwork
It’s Friday and that means it’s time for another episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The Disney+ series continues to work through a post-Order 66 world and explores what life in the galaxy is like as the Empire rises … Continue reading Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 5 Discussion
We’ve talked about a lot of art in different forms this month and today we want to shift gears just a touch to talk about art in books, or a book that collects an artists works to check out. These … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 27: Your Book On Art/Artist’s Work
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
While so much of the art that we’ve talked about this month has been things that you would find in a museum, today we want to talk about art you find out in public. Whether they’re pieces installed as part … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 26: Your Favorite Public Art Installation
As we get toward the end of the month with this challenge and line up our next, we want to dig into our inner child today as well as some of the famous artwork by children out there. A lot … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 25: Your Favorite Artwork By A Child
One of the thing that always resonates with me are particular shades of colors. I have a favorite color – blue – but there are so many types of blue (including ones I don’t like) that I can always shift … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 24: Your Favorite Color
Slow weekend is slow is the way to summarize what happened with this release weekend at the box office. With not much in the way of new actually out in it, and the smaller subset of theatergoers out there having … Continue reading Box Office: May 21-23
With the weekend prompts, we like to make it a bit of an activity-based one and this weekend is no exception! First, we want to hear about your favorite Black artist or piece of artwork, whether from over the history … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 23: Your Favorite Black Artist
With the Saturday prompts, we like to make it a bit of an activity-based one and this weekend is no exception! Post a one-word description of a type of person, draw a (one minute, MAX!) picture for another prompt! This … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 22: Drawing Jam!
Color is an amazing thing! One of my favorite things years ago was when I would go to the home improvement stores with my kids, they’d be drawn to the paint chips section and would pick out colors that they … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 21: Your Color Palette
It’s Friday and that means it’s time for another episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The Disney+ series continues to work through a post-Order 66 world and explores what life in the galaxy is like as the Empire rises … Continue reading Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 4 Discussion
With the way history has gone, it’s no surprise that the bulk of the painters, artists, sculptors, and more tend to be men. But history is made up of so much more than just the well-known men that dominated many … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 20: Favorite Artwork By A Woman Or Nonbinary Artist
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
We spent the better part of the past week – with some fun shaking things up on the weekend – focusing on various areas around the world to share our favorite artwork from there or discover new things. Today, this … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 19: Favorite Indigenous Artist Artwork
As we continue to look around the world for artwork from various regions, our eye heads to South America where there is so much artwork that goes back with all the indigenous people and then all the colonization that brought … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 18: Favorite South American Artwork
As we continue to look around the world for artwork from various regions, our eye heads to Africa where there is so much artwork that goes back incredibly far that you can easily get frustrated with how little of it … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 17: Favorite African Artwork
The latest round of box office numbers have come in and we’re getting another look at how theaters are performing. With more and more of them opening back up now, availability is less of an issue – though we’re seeing … Continue reading Box Office: May 14-16
A lot of the time when we look at the world of art, we tend to look toward the classics. And we do tend to look at certain regions more than others. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 16: Favorite European Artwork
With the Saturday portion of this challenge, we’re hoping to do some interactive activities for those that have time on the weekend to participate. If you’re coming across this later than its initial posting, we still want to hear from … Continue reading 30 Day Visual Art Challenge Day 15: Saturday Morning Drawing Jam!
