If you’re interested in an easy, 5 day art challenge to end your August, Amy Maricle is running The Simplest Thing: https://mindfulartstudio.com/simplestthing2025 - from August 25-29. Email required for sign up so you can receive the journal prompts. I’ve done Amy’s Inchie Challenge and some of her Slow Drawing sessions and really enjoyed them. I’ll have @NostrArtstr art challenges ready for the rest of the months this year, so Amy’s Simplest Thing could be a fun warm-up if you took a Summer break like I did. 🎨 #artchallenge #art #artstr #grownostr #august

#nostrartstrJune2025 - Hot & Cold Hemispheres! 🌎🌏 For June 2025, I wanted to create an art challenge with themes that resonate for nostriches on both halves of the planet. June 20th is the Summer or Winter solstice, depending where you live. So for this month, I have a prompt list that can be interpreted as hot 🔥or cold 🧊; there’s two graphics (same prompt list) in case having a temperature-appropriate visual helps you create. 🏝️🗻 There’s also 2 color palettes, and a tracker. As always, these are just suggestions- make any art you want: once a day or only once. If you’ve made more art by the end of the month by participating in this art challenge than you would have, you win! 🫂💜 Please use the #nostrartstrJune2025 hashtag so other folks can find your work this month. #artchallenge #art #artstr #nostronly #grownostr #hot #cold

#nostrartstrMay2025 - Flowers! 💐 For May 2025, I have a color palette (the most popular flower colors), 31 flower prompts, and a two page tracker of flower icons that match the prompt list (which also makes for fun coloring pages)! 🎉 All of those are just suggestions- make any art you want: once a day or only once. If you’ve made more art by the end of the month by participating in this art challenge than you would have, you win! 🫂💜 #nostrartstrMay2025 #artchallenge #art #artstr #gm #nostronly #grownostr #flowerstr #coloring

#pastchallenges - as of this date #nostrartstrMarch2025 - Spring Stuff #nostrartstrFeb2025 - Color Our Collections #nostrartstrJan2025 - A Month of Good Mornings #nostrartstrDec2024 - Post Past Art #nostrartstrNov2024 - Play with Color The first Nostr art challenge I hosted was #nostrichnovember in Nov. 2023 from my Rustypuppy account. I created French Fashion Nostriches of the 1920s, one of which is used as the profile pic for this NostrArtstr account.

If you’d like to see how one person did a single color challenge, check out this video playlist from Ten Hundred: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjvuq1J91QkYE2Nv-QQopXXv0mPKsagKh He painted some awesome stuff using shades and tones of a single color. There are 4 videos: pink, green, blue, and yellow. And if you thought TurdSoup.com gives you interesting random word prompts, this guy got his prompts from doing an Instagram Live, so yeah, lots of stuff going on in his paintings. #inspiration #nostrartstrNov2024 #color #artchallenge #turdsoup