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Mini Poppy Series Challenge 0n Yupo Paper
Come • Learn the Principles • Love the Techniques and • Create With Spirit!

Rules, Prizes &  Instructions  •  Poppy Challenge Entries
DEADLINE November 30, 2020
Your entry can be created in any medium, as long as it's done on Yupo!


Diane Emerson is our judge for this event!
She's the exhibit coordinator and co-curator at the Medford Arts Center,
in Medford, NJ. Diane is an awesome artist and a sophisticated judge
with decades of professional art experience.


The preliminary step to creating any series in assembly line fashion, is coming up with an idea for a theme, a common subject and elements (see below). Figure out layouts and make a plan for all the pieces you will create. Mine are all redos of lesson paintings from our resent Online Poppy  Course, but I wanted to do them all in the same medium and style. So I am redoing pieces that I have already created before. This doesn't have to be the case, but I feel that redoing pieces will help you to develop skills more quickly, as repetition IS the key to mastery! Happy creating everyone1
The Elements of Design by Ed Whitney
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PRELIMINARY PREPARATION  •  PLANNING AND Sizing
My Images Were Compiled From Previous Poppy Paintings

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On STEP ONE
Images Were Transferred With Pencil Onto Yupo Paper

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STEP TWO
Images Were Inked With Water Based Micron Pens

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STEP THREE
Blooms Were Painted With Base Colors in Alcohol Ink
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STEP FOUR
Foliage And Accents Were Painted
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STEP FIVE
Backgrounds Were Painted
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 I am sharing in-progress shots of my assembly line process for creating this mini-series (above), in hopes it will help you create your own collection of paintings. The idea to do all the pieces together on a single sheet came from one of our participants, so I thought I'd try it out. I measured out 12) 2.5" x 3.5" pieces and taped out between them. This series was done in alcohol ink, but can be done in watercolor or mixed mediums, as long as it's a series of 12) 2.5" x 3.5" poppy paintings and it's done on Yupo paper. You can see all the information about this challenge in the video and information posted below! Happy creating and good luck my friends! See challenge entries and judging results here.


Rules and Techniques Video

Experience The Benefits of Creating A Series!

"A series is a collection of paintings that when viewed
leaves no doubt the same artist created them all.
The theme running through the work is stated and restated
in different yet interconnected ways and the viewer can
look at the collection and understand more easily
what the artist is trying to convey."

~ Lynette Ubel
Mini Poppy  Series Challenge
First • Second • Third • Honorable Mention Awards

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First Prize - Over a $200. value in prizes. - 1 pad of 11 x 14" Medium  Weight. Yupo. Paper, • 1 packet of 8 x 10" M..W.Y.,  • 1 packet & 1 pad 5 x 7" M.W.Y.,  • 1 packet 5 x 7" Translucent Yupo, 1 packet 8 x 10" Translucent Yupo,  • 1 pad 5 x 7" Stonehenge Aqua Black 100% Cotton Rag, • 6 Assorted Legion Mini Pads, • 1 Original Yupo painting by Sandy Sandy, matted to 8 x 10" ~ Winner chooses from a selection of six original artworks. (See below)


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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
~ Vincent van Gogh

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2nd, 3rd & Honorable Mention Prizes - Over a $150. value in prizes -1 pad of 5 x 7"" Medium  Weight. Yupo. Paper, • 1 packet of 5 x 7" M.W.Y.,  • 1 packet 5 x 7" Translucent Yupo  • 1 pad 5 x 7" Stonehenge Aqua Black 100% Cotton Rag, • 5 Assorted Legion Mini Pads, • 1 Original Yupo painting by Sandy Sandy, matted to 5 x 7" ~ Winners choose (2nd, 3rd, H.M., in order) from a selection of six original artworks. (See below)

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Rules:
Submit Photos Of Your Series of 12 Mini Poppy Paintings
on Yupo Paper in Alcohol Ink And/Or Watercolor By Oct. 31, 2020

By tagging me @SandySandyArt on Facebook And/Or Instagram
Also tag your submission #YupoWithSandy and #LegionPaper #PoppyChallenge


Someone asked if she could do the paintings all on one piece of Yupo and
separate them with a grid of tape and I said that would be fine and may be easier for some of you.

I have contracted special guest judge, Diane Emerson,  for this event
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She's the exhibit coordinator and co-curator at the Medford Arts Center,
in Medford, NJ. Diane is an awesome artist and a sophisticated judge
with decades of professional art experience.


More than one series may be entered by each artist!

The more places you post your work, the greater your chances are to win!

*Registered students may post their submission(s) on the
Learn.Love.Create with Sandy Sandy
Facebook Group.
The size of each painting is 2.5" x 3.5 - 3.75".
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Mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
Sandy Sandy, 464 Carranza Rd., Tabernacle, NJ 08088

And I will send you back 16) pre-cut 2.5 x 3.5" pieces of Yupo paper.


Photos must be taken of the whole series together and submitted as a unit,
but can also be submitted individually for closer inspection, on Facebook or Instagram
or by emailing: Sandy@SandySandy.com.


Your inventiveness, cohesiveness, overall effort and
artistic innovation counts here!

Series posted as a slide show or video presentation will be given additional credit.


This is an art contest where individuality, imagination, craftsmanship and presentation
will all count in the final judging by our guest judge, Diane Emerson.

View The Video At The Top Of This Page For More Details



Download and use this grid to do your sketches for this challenge.
An additional download is available to enrolled students here.

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yupo_challenge-1b.pdf
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File Type: pdf
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"The process is not about repetition at all, but rather about being able to explore, investigate, examine or address particular ideas, themes, issues, compositions, concepts or topics in progressively deeper and more meaningful ways, and from a greater variety of perspectives than is possible by making just one or two. It's like looking at something under a microscope as opposed to giving it a casual passing glance. The closer you look, the more you see, and the more you see, the more fascinating your explorations get."
~  Art Business

Good Luck & Happy Creating!

Mini Poppy Series Challenge 0n Yupo Paper
Come • Learn the Principles • Love the Techniques and • Create With Spirit!

Rules, Prizes &  Instructions  •  Poppy Challenge Entries

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