This first challenge of the week was to create art where weather exists inside a person, animal, room or object—but nowhere else.
8/2/26 “Make Your Own Weather”
The next challenge was titled “The Person Who Feels Like Home.” The idea was to show emotional connection and warmth, belonging and trust in an image.
8/3/26 “BFFs”
The next challenge was about transformation and that moment when a solid, liquid, or gas is changing to another state. I chose the word becoming flesh, story coming to life, ink turning from solid to liquid to smoke and on to another transformation.
8/4/26 “Alchemy of Story”
The next day’s challenge was to depict a cause that we support or that is close to our hearts. I chose protection of pregnant women. 25% of women globally experience violence at the hands of their romantic partners when they are pregnant or postpartum. Pregnant women are 40% more likely to be murdered than non-pregnant women. 65% of all pregnant women who are murdered die at the hands of a current or former intimate partner. 80% of domestic violence survivors who own pets report that their abusive partner has threatened, harmed, or killed their companion animals (used as a deliberate tool for psychological coercion.) I am passionate about protecting all women, but especially the most vulnerable and their beloveds (animals, children, etc.)
8/5/26 “She Matters”
The next challenge was to create an ordinary daytime scene with moons hidden in impossible places. Mine was not impossible, but had lots of moons.
8/6/26 “Many Moons”
For the next one, we were supposed to create a scene of mass invasion in a sci-fi, horror, or fantasy setting (no zombies or robots allowed.) I thought of my sister’s horde of wiener dogs and how when they all run in a pack they are like a swarm of invading aliens. lol
8/7/26 “Dachshund Invasion”
The last challenge of the week was fashion show, only it had to be outrageous. Weird, ugly mix of patterns, sculptured, structural, etc. Worst dressed fashion sort of esthetic. I thought of things like bones, teeth, and eyes that could be really cool.
“Survival of the Fittest” – Darwin never specified how the fittest should dress. Draped in scales, teeth, ancient bones, and watchful eyes, this evolutionary ensemble turns millions of years of adaptation and a few unfortunate extinctions into haute couture. On this runway, we’re all about natural selection.
8/8/26 “Survival of the Fittest”
And here are some of the honorable mentions that I did not submit, but still published on my art website:
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