Category Archives: 30-Day Creative Gathering

Join in the 30-Day Creative Gathering

Our September 2023 30-Day Creative Gathering,
is right around the corner!
We gather again in two weeks.
Woo Whoo! 🎉

I hope you can join us!

This is an opportunity to REVIVE or REINVENT your daily art practice.
Is there a new medium you would like to try?
Or new materials you’ve been wanting to explore?
Maybe life has been pulling you away from your creative pursuits.
This can be a nudge back to creating.

Our 30-Day Creative Gathering is an informal gathering of creators. Just paint each day in September. Or sketch, or take a photo. We welcome all levels, all mediums. Creating each day does not have to mean completing a finished piece.

Work in progress is welcome!

You can choose to follow a theme, experiment with new tools, use a new palette. Or not. At the end of the month, each artist will create a collage of their works. If you have not done that before, we will show you how.

Gathering together allows the opportunity to connect with others, make new friends, and cheer each other on. Please remember to be respectful and kind. Set aside some time each day, or each week, to visit other artists, and chat (comment) with members .

It’s OK to start late.
It’s OK to participate even if you will not be able to do all 30 days.
The only rule in the group is to post your work in the daily album.

Feel free to visit the group for a peek.
Click on Media, then Albums, to view the art that was created each day.

Help us spread the word!

If you have taken part before, you are all set.
If you are new to the group, you can sign up here.

The countdown starts next week.
See you soon! 😃

The 30-Day Creative Gathering Artists, February 2023

18 Replies

Val van der Poel

The 2023 February 30 day Creative Gathering has come to a spectacular end. Many new members joined us. Day one started off with a bang. 40 pieces of art posted. Our daily average was 33, and our final count was just under 1000 pieces of art created, 992.

I didn’t count the extra pieces that were posted in comments. Those would put the total well over 1025. Our September 2022 total was just over 700. Way to score, artists!

I know you will enjoy this peek at the amazing art that was created during our Creative Gathering. Be sure to visit our board on Pinterest to see them in more of a gallery view. It’s spectacular!

Sea Dean

Eileen A. E. Vivell

Jennifer Beaudet Zondervan

Markus Wobisch

Christine Brooks

Judit Zsidakovits

Helen Trachy

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
Bill Moyers

Chandra Lynn

Nelvia McGrath

Lynne Forrester

Eva Lato

Laurelle Cidoncha

Diane Wilde

Donna Pierce Clark

To create one’s own world takes courage.
Georgia O’Keeffe

Johanne Boisvert

Francine Bennett

Cindi Jones

Anne Bolner

Teresa Harrington Hazelbaker

Linda Lovisa

Marrianna Dougherty

Karin Hooper Schoonover

Lucie Trepanier

Cher Truax

Beth Farabough Bolay

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye,
it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch

Natasha Papousek

Sandy Sandy

Corinne Bekker

Jaine Buse

Raymonde Fortin

Pam Morgan

Lynne Mizera

Lori K. Wikdahl

Joy Nichols

Christiane Drieling

Laurie Sayward

None of us, including me, ever do great things.
But we can all do small things, with great love,
and together we can do something wonderful.
Mother Teresa

30 Days Of Art Collage

6 Replies

30 Day Collage, February 2023. Watercolor, acrylic & digital collage. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

Once again, my plans were quickly left at the gate. The work led me down a path less traveled. I had decided to do collage for the gathering. I thought to make painted papers, and work on florals and landscapes.

I used the Photoshop pen tool on day one. To outline the bloom. By day three, I was hooked. There are only two pieces, that did not lean heavily on the pen tool. Day 2 and day 16.

Here is a video that will show you how to work with the Pen Tool. Of course, I am using it for a completely different outcome. (There I go using tools the wrong way again.)😄 I have started the video a few minutes in, and you only need to look at about a minute, to get a good idea. I wish I had found this particular video before. His explanations are so easy for me to understand. I learned by trial and error. Lots of errors.

This was my learning for the month. Each day I felt more and more comfortable with the tool. By the final week, my pieces were almost completely digitally rendered. 80-90%. I dared to take on more complex subjects.

I have avoided the pen tool for years. Trying to grasp it now and then, but soon giving in to frustration. It is slightly mathematical in nature. And you know, an artist’s brain does not work that way.

Favorites, February 2023. Watercolor, acrylic & digital collage. © 2023 Sheila Delgado.

I had fun playing with color, patterns and mood. I am happy with each piece. But, as always, I can see some that I would like to improve, having learned so much since then.

I managed to continue with my fabrics for the weekly Spoonflower challenge, for half of the month. I was behind for several days mid month, and I knew that working on a fabric design would sink me even further. I do plan on creating two designs, so that I can catch up on the weeks I missed. It is another challenge for my brain.

Thanks so much for following along with me this month. Your encouragement and support mean the world to me. I am so grateful for you, friends. My people. The ones who understand my art obsession. What it means to me, my soul, and my life.

Tomorrow I will post the Creative Gathering artists gallery. We have new members and I know you will love their work as much as I do. See you soon!