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Here's the calendar with all the prompts filled in. It's really satisfying to look back at all the different techniques and brushes I tried. The orange, the cookies, and the stuffed date are my favourites but I also really like the hat and both ornaments.
December 25: Evergreen Advent calendars don't usually have a 25th, but the prompt grid would've been uneven without it. Christmas was very difficult for me this year, but I'm happy I stuck with this challenge and finished all 25 days. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday ๐ฉท
December 25: Evergreen Advent calendars don't usually have a 25th, but the prompt grid would've been uneven without it. Christmas was very difficult for me this year, but I'm happy I stuck with this challenge and finished all 25 days. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday ๐ฉท
December 24: Cinnamon I'm going to be baking cookies with some cinnamon soon, I hope they turn out good! Also I really liked the prompt colors for today
December 11: Family I don't live in the same country as my family, so on Christmas I usually get online when I wake up and spend Christmas morning with my family on a video call.
December 10: Candy cane I had little fruit flavored candy canes one year that came in a bunch of different colors, I really liked them.
December 9: Hot chocolate I was feeling a bit silly today, so I doodled little marshmallows floating in some minty hot chocolate
December 8: Presents I tried another new brush with this one. I love the texture, but it doesn't really blend, so it was a challenge to render. I'm very happy with the result!
December 8: Presents I tried another new brush with this one. I love the texture, but it doesn't really blend, so it was a challenge to render. I'm very happy with the result!
December 7: Candles I tried a brush for this one that I've never used before. I like the texture of it in the light and the leaves
December 6: Carols One of my favourite Christmas carols is "Carol of the Bells" which, if you didn't know, is originally from Ukraine ๐๐
December 5: Cookies I'm a big fan of those thumbprint cookies with jam in the middle. I spent a little more than 10 minutes on this one but it's ok, I was having fun๐ฉท
December 5: Cookies I'm a big fan of those thumbprint cookies with jam in the middle. I spent a little more than 10 minutes on this one but it's ok, I was having fun๐ฉท
December 4: Sweet My family always stuffs dates with cream cheese and walnuts while we are getting ready to make Christmas food, so that way we can snack on them while we cook ๐ฉท
December 2: Traditions Every year, my family and I decorate fresh oranges with cloves. When you push cloves into an orange, it fills the room with a warm, spiced scent that I always associate with the holidays.
December 1: Lights Day 1 was especially low effort because I also made the calendar itself that day. Under the icing of each cookie is a prompt + 3 colors I need to use. I can use other colors too, but the goal is simplicity, so every doodle needs to be completed in under 10 mins.
December 1: Lights Day 1 was especially low effort because I also made the calendar itself that day. Under the icing of each cookie is a prompt + 3 colors I need to use. I can use other colors too, but the goal is simplicity, so every doodle needs to be completed in under 10 mins.
I made an advent calendar for myself with some simple holiday prompts. I want to just do some fun, low effort doodles every day this month leading up to Christmas.
For this piece, I studied the figurative pieces from Cueva de las Manos in Argentina (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_d...) and the Gwion Gwion rock paintings of Western Australia (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwion_G...).
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Prehistoric artists made paints with pigments from their evironment. The most common were charcoal and ochre, which is why cave paintings are usually black or orange, red or yellow. They crushed the pigments and mixed them with animal fat to make paints (edu.rsc.org/resources/pr...).
Cave paintings are a prehistoric painting tradition and one of the oldest forms of human art. These were made on rocks around the world with great variety between cultures. The oldest known figurative cave paintings are 40,000 to 50,000 years old (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_pa...).
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It is not known how old this tradition is because egg shells don't preserve well. There is some archeological evidence that pysanky may be as old as 5000 to 2000 BCE, since a ceramic pysanky was found from this time period (www.pysanky.info/History/Anci...).
Pysanky are made with wax and dye. Wax is put in a tool called a kistka and then heated. You write on the egg with melted wax, then dye the egg. The waxed areas won't be dyed. This is repeated for each color, then the wax is removed to reveal the design (www.instructables.com/Pysanky-Ukra...).
Pysanky is an ancient Ukranian egg decorating tradition. The word "pysanky" (or "pysanka" in the singular form) comes from the word for writing, so it's correct to say that you write these eggs instead of saying that you paint them (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_dec...).