Melissa – 24 Hour Art-a-thon

Update & Buttons for the Upcoming Art-a-thon

August 23, 2015Melissa Leave a Comment

There is a little over 8 weeks until the art-a-thon! We can’t wait to create some Halloween themed art with all of you. Remember all are welcome to participate!

We have changed the starting time of the 13 Hour Art-a-thon. It will now begin at 9 A.M. Eastern and end at 10 P.M. Eastern. Signups will open on the morning of September 18th. Our site will also hopefully be getting a Halloween makeover in the next couple of weeks. For this art-a-thon there won’t be a grand prize. However each host will be offering a prize to randomly selected participants.

Below are some buttons you can use to add to your social media sites. To use them on your sites right click and save the image to your computer. Then upload it to your site. To display on websites copy the code below and paste where you would like it on your site. In the space where it says “Insert-Link-Here” enter the link to where you saved the image. If the image is too large you can adjust the width and height to fit your website. If you need the image bigger than 200×200 please email me with the size you need and I will send you a new image.

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Coming this October…

May 15, 2015Melissa Leave a Comment

We have some good news for you all! We have decided to host another art-a-thon this year!

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays. So we decided to host a Halloween themed art-a-thon on October 24th. However this art-a-thon will not be 24 hours it will only be 13 hours. It will begin at 8am EST and end at 9pm EST.

We will have prompts again and there will be a few prizes as well. As always the prompts and theme are just a suggestion. You can create whatever you like.

Signups for the art-a-thon will go up mid September. More information will be posted as we get closer to the art-a-thon date.

If you wish to keep up to date on the Art-a-thon please subscribe to our blog by entering your email in the subscribe section located on the sidebar to the right.

We hope you join us for this spooky art-a-thon!

That’s All Folks!

March 22, 2015Melissa 3 Comments

Now the 24 Hour Art-a-thon comes to an end!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this challenge and made it a fun and awesome experience! So much amazing art was created by all. You are all truly talented.

Thank you so much to my co-hosts Rhonda, Ruth and Sarah for helping me to host this challenge and not thinking I was crazy when I suggested it so many months ago! You three are an amazing bunch of remarkable and talented women and I am very happy to call you friends!

Now on to the prizes!

The Grand Prize Winner is……Michelle Visser and her two awesome daughters! You will be receiving all that you see below!

Strathmore Mixed Media Journal Faber-Castell Big Brush Pitt Pens 2 Uniball Signo White Gel Pens – Given by Melissa	Martha Stewart Journal Canson Make Your Own Manga Book Canson Make Your Own Comic Book – Given by Rhonda
Cut Press Board Book A set of Various Color Gelatos A set of Black & White Gelatos – Given by Ruth	Calligraphy Pen & Ink Set Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tissue Wrap Art Minds Plaster Wrap – Given by Sarah

The following winners won prizes from each host. All winners will receive an email or message from me sometime this evening after I have some much needed sleep or at the latest Monday morning.

For my winners you can choose something from my prizes listed on the prize page or wait till Monday when I make a list and take pictures of everything I created during the art-a-thon to choose from. However the “White Rabbit” is on a first come first serve basis since there is only one.

Prompt 1 – Host Melissa
Winner – Amy Hightower Mosely
Prize – Not Yet Chosen

Prompt 2 – Host Rhonda
Winner – Anita Mistry
Prize – A surprise

Prompt 3 – Host Sarah
Winner – Jamie Joslyn
Prize – Handbound Journal

Prompt 4 – Host Melissa
Winner – Aubrey Oddbreed
Prize – Not Yet Chosen

Prompt 5 – Host Rhonda
Winner – Trisha Doran
Prize – A Surprise

Prompt 6 – Host Sarah
Winner – Aubrey Oddbreed
Prize – Mini Framed Monster Portraits

Prompt 7 – Host Ruth
Winner – Melissa
Prize – Surprise

Prompt 8 – Host Melissa
Winner – Beverly Jensen
Prize – Not Yet Chosen

Prompt 9 – Host Sarah
Winner – Evelyn Havertz
Prize – Handmade Doll

Prompt 10 – Host Rhonda
Winners – Trisha Fettig and Jennifer Rothstein

Prompt 11 – Host Ruth
Winner – Rhonda
Prize – Surprise

Prompt 12 – Host Ruth
Winner – No Winner

Please keep creating awesome art and having fun!

Prompt 8 – Hour 15

March 21, 2015Melissa Leave a Comment

This is Melissa from Unwavering Imagination again. I’m back for my final prompt hosting. Even though this is my final prompt hosting I will still be around.

Congrats on surpassing the halfway mark!! How’s everyone doing? Feeling tired? If so maybe its time to take a break and rest a little. Remember breaks are important; a short nap will refresh you and even just stepping away from your art for a few minutes will allow your hands to rest a little.

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Prompt 8 is to create something with a function. Functional art is aestetically pleasing but serves a purpose. An example of functional art could be a vase with a painting of an ocean scene. Besides being beautiful it can also hold flowers. Another example could be a table with a mosaic top. Don’t have time to create anything that big? You can create a small art piece out of clay and turn it into a magnet or jewelry or you could create a journal with an artsy cover.

Below are some zombie magnets I created last year. They were created with a face mold and paper clay that Ruth gifted me. Rather than just a regular face I tore at parts of the face to make it seem like it had been attacked by a zombie and then had turned into one. Once they were painted and varnished I added rare earth magnets to them.

For this prompt I have three things I plan on creating. The first is a dice tower. I plan to make it look like a medieval tower by using plaster to give it a stone like texture. However this one will take a lot of time due to the drying of the plaster and then the paint so I have no idea if I will be able to finish it during the two hours for this prompt but it will be done by the end of the art-a-thon. I also plan on painting a bottle that will also be a vase and lastly I would like to make some coasters out of tiles using alcohol inks. Probably too much to accomplish in 2 hours but it at least gives me options.

Well now I am off to create my dice tower so I will leave you with a quote.

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

~ Pablo Picasso

Prompt 4 – Hour 7

March 21, 2015Melissa Leave a Comment

Welcome to hour 7 of the art-a-thon! How are things going? Hope you had a good lunch or are going to have one soon. Usually when I’m busy creating art I tend to forget to eat. I’m too focused on what I’m doing that I don’t realize how much time has passed. Now I set alarms on my phone to remind me. Sometimes though if I am really into what I am doing, I turn it off and keep working. When my body finally realizes I haven’t eaten I tend to feel tired. So remember to eat something even if its just a snack every now and then as you will need the energy especially if you want to stay up for the entire 24 hours. Now onto the prompt!

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Your fourth prompt for the day is Circles, Circles, Circles! I love drawing, doodling and painting circles, spirals and swirls. They are my go to shape though I do try to give the other shapes some love too. Circles are just so much fun. I even find myself sometimes absentmindedly doodling them.

You can decide to do just circles or you can be a little more creative with it and create patterns that create a circle or creating a circular art journal page or painting. Remember you can interpret the prompts in whatever way you like.

Mixed media paper cut into a circle.

Triangles that create a circle.

If you don’t want to draw circles freehand you can use stencils, bottle caps, cans of soda, cds/dvds, punchinella (sequin waste), the eraser on a pencil, paper towel rolls,a straw, bubble wrap or even an old contact case. Almost all can be used to create outlines of circles and some will create filled in circles if you dip them in paint or ink.

Do you have a favorite shape? If so let me know in the comments. I would love to know.

Well I’m off to work on the prompt so I will leave you with another quote. This one is from my favorite painter.

Author: Melissa