This video shows the results of the March 2025 Art Dare: Expressive Drawing. Discussion led by Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Jordan McCracken-Foster.
Prize Winner
Dana B.
“Before I found you, I was stumbling along looking at a multitude of how to videos.
I have mostly been doing realistic art but one day I wanted to try a more modern approach. I used acrylic paint on an acrylic under painting.
Most people who looked at these said that they liked my realistic artwork more.
Even though I found this style very freeing and fun, I haven’t worked like this again. First one is inspired by the Northern Lights, Second, Reflection in lily pond, third, just let the color and line work inspire me.”
Honorable Mention
Nancy Richardson
“I find that making random marks with India ink very cathartic. When I have a need to release stress, tension, or when my thoughts are messy, I will sit down with some tissue paper (or in this case teabag paper), and with a brush and some India ink. I just randomly move my brush around and it recenters and grounds me. I keep piles of marks and use them later in mixed media.
For this art dare I played around by combining washes of sepia India ink and black ink. As I played around with some colors I loved the combination of Anthraquinone Blue and Transparent Red Iron Oxide acrylic paints as well as some Neocolor II.
The inked papers were ripped and adhered over the top of my substrate (Claybord) that was covered with vintage sheet music. Because text is an integral part of my story, although illegible, the entire piece is a mashup of song lyrics that when pieced together, resembles warm bricks, each one containing notes that signify some abstract piece of a story.
I cropped some areas that are finished which, as stories often do, give a whole different context when the other details are missing.
I painted on mulberry paper, tweaked the pattern in clip studio paint, printed, traced, repainted, then back into clip studio for the mockup.
Then I added detail with thinner pieces of vine charcoal, using my imagination to translate my strokes into something recognizable.”
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