You are invited to participate in the 7 Day Art Challenge! December 1-7th, 2021

The 7 Day Art Challenge is a unique creative challenge that has one rule:

Start a new project every day.

This means starting a new painting, drawing, song, embroidery, bullet journal spread, blog post or any other creative endeavor each day. The catch is, you aren't allowed to continue working on something you made the previous day until after the challenge is over.

Why starts?

Doing lots of starts is a fantastic way to get the creative machine rolling and eliminating perfectionism. When you plan only on starting a project and not completing it, you are giving your inner editor room to say: "Hey maybe this project isn't worth my energy to finish it. Maybe what I thought was a good idea, isn't, and I should move forward with the next thing." It’s very cathartic.

I'll be doing 7 painting starts for the challenge. No intention to finish them, but all the intention to get those ideas begun.

Here’s the breakdown of the week:

Day 0 (Sometime the week before December 1st):

Declare yourself on social media! Share an image from the @7dayartchallenge IG account in your stories and tell the world you are participating!
Begin preparing materials: Get all your surfaces ready, buy any supplies you might need, and organize your creative space.
Calendar out when you are going to create each day. This might mean 2 hours one day and 15 minutes the next. Make it work for your schedule and don't let people interrupt it! This is holy creative time.
List out ideas you have. Describe in written form the ideas you have for the week. This might be a list of prompts to write about in blogs, color combinations you have your eye on, getting reference pictures for cross-stitches, etc. Another option is to fly by the seat of your pants and plan nothing. Both are fun!

If you happen to finish a project in a day during the challenge, great! That wasn't the goal of the challenge, but it is very impressive!

That said: Don't move onto the next days start. Keep one start for each day.

Day 1: Do your first start. Stick to the time you allocated for yourself and when the time is up, the time is up.

Day 2: Begin again with a new project. Don't go back to yesterdays start!

Day 3-7: Keep doing a new start each day. During the week I’ll be posting fun inspirational items on the @7dayartchallenge Instagram.

After: Sweet sweet victory! Now that the challenge is over you can look back on the projects you started and see which ones you wish to complete.

Maybe some? Maybe all? Only you will decide!

That's the challenge! Short and sweet. I hope you join in and if you do, please declare yourself! Click the button below to visit the official 7 Day Art Challenge page.

@7dayartchallenge on Instagram

7 Day Art Challenge - December 1-7th, 2021