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Take care of children, who we are – or once were. Challenge 2020

Birth and mornings can be seen as new beginnings. The dark of night transforms into daylight. Find inspiration to draw an imaginative image: A figure in a landscape. Choose a human or an animal. Maybe in the reddish colors of dawn.

You’re looking at a person, filling up your whole field of view. The person looks back at you with enormously big, warm eyes. Find inspiration to draw a realistic image: A large face, from edge to edge of the paper. Draw what you think are expressive, loving eyes.

A small hand meeting a bigger hand. The love of an adult can create comfort, security and warmth. Find inspiration to draw an imaginative image: Your hands, holding something you imagine will need your love, e.g. a smaller animal a plant or a human being.

People embrace each other because we need one another, being one big community. Find inspiration to draw a realistic image: Different kinds of people. Draw as many you can think of, some you know or make up.

At first the baby’s just lying there, then crawling, and eventually being able to walk. Moving into unknown territory. Find inspiration to draw an imaginative image: An abstract landscape with everything in motion. Feel free to fill the picture space with great energy and a lot of lines.

When people seek protection they find a house, a cave or some other hiding place. Find inspiration to draw a realistic image: Your dream home. In the city or in nature. Up or down. You decide.

At first the baby’s just lying there, then crawling, and eventually being able to walk. Moving into unknown territory. Find inspiration to draw an imaginative image: An abstract landscape with everything in motion. Feel free to fill the picture space with great energy and a lot of lines.

From child to grown-up. A journey from not knowing to knowing a lot. To an acknowledgement of the fact that you’ll never know it all. Find inspiration to draw an imaginative image: A collage-ish image of things and events, that puzzle you. It can be of a function, an invention, nature, a formula or an attitude or person.

Lots of people are interested in their story. Where do they come from? Where are they going? Find inspiration to draw an imaginative image: Find inspiration to draw a realistic image: Different childhood memories in storytelling style. Or drawing a tree of life.

We need to take care of each other, also when finding big love. There’s a vulnerable child within us all, that might freeze. Find inspiration to draw an imaginative image: Expressing true love in a symbolistic style (romantic). Draw fragility and strength. Or maybe danger.

Do you remember to play? To be carefree for a moment? To be curious and searching? Find inspiration to draw a realistic image: Cracks of playfulness in a huge, serious world. Combine realism with the abstract. Fragments of reality.

Wondering how all life started. Some ask questions. Others make up their own reality. Find inspiration to draw an imaginative image: Nature, that impresses you. Grandiosity and volume. Mystery and myths. Draw expressively, an image of your own energy.

The body as a canvas, The body as a machine, the body as an intelligent being. We are body. Find inspiration to draw a realistic image: A human being (or more) full figure. Draw characters from different angles and in different poses. Put them close together and produce as many representations and situations as possible.

Rituals and parties have always gathered people. Young and old. Smiles, kindness and laughter. Find inspiration to draw an imaginative image: Give it all you’ve got when it comes to imagination, creating a celebratory image, expressing lots of joy. Feel free to use all thinkable colors.

A meeting turns into a life. Poetry into stories. A line into a drawing. Day into night. A beginning into an end. Find inspiration to draw a realistic image: A final and summative image with a strong sense of perspective. From the beginning of the day to now. From realism to the abstract.


Care for the earth´s beauty and save the climate. Challenge 2019

IIt is morning. The light is the beauty of the planet. One thing’s for sure. The sun breaks the darkness / Let yourself be inspired to draw an imaginative image: With a dramatic morning sky.

When all darkness is hidden behind the sky. Nature wakes up.. Flora is ready to unfold / Let yourself be inspired to draw a realistic picture: Where flowers and leaves are included

Flowers are small. The littles ones stand in the shadow of the bigger ones. The big take care of the smaller / Let yourself be inspired to draw an imaginative image: Where a large figure protects a small figure.

People’s got different figure and shape. A person can have multiple faces / Let yourself be inspired to draw a realistic image: Of a person with an expressive face.

The human’s a species. There are countless different animals. Also animals not yet discovered / Let yourself be inspired to draw an imaginative image: Of a fantasy animal, preferably inspired by one or more existing species.

If we invite a strange animal into our house, everything can turn upside down / Let yourself be inspired to draw a realistic picture: Of a room or a house where everything looks a bit strange.

Chaotic images give substance to thought, dreams and visions. But it sometimes requires that you see it all a bit from above / Let yourself be inspired to draw an imaginative image: In a new way of experiencing the earth, seen from the sky

The sun is the light to man and the life of the earth. Seen from the outside just a ball. From a human perspective a universe full of surprises / Let yourself be inspired to draw a realistic picture: Of something that is important to you, something that we need to take special care of on our planet: Water, fire, soil or air.

It is good to be able to express your feelings. To take care of yourself and others. Hands, that are caring / Let yourself be inspired to draw an imaginative image: Of hands, expressing emotions or holding a meaningful thing.

Trees are the roof of life. And trees protect and provide air to the world. But also the mystery is to be found in the forest / Let yourself be inspired to draw a realistic picture: With either friendly or scary trees.

All is in the eye of the beholder. From dangerous to peaceful. To some the world is completely black/white, colored or transparent / Let yourself be inspired to draw an imaginative image: With a lot of transparent things or patterns that overlap.

Looking at windows in the town. Seeing your own mirror image. While moving from place to place / Let yourself be inspired to draw a realistic image: Of yourself in whole figure, as you best see yourself and your expression.

You are a creative person. Your brain is full of pictures. Imagine that you have a story that becomes reality / Let yourself be inspired to draw an imaginative image: Of what you dream will happen to you if you were a fish in the sea.

If we can’t live on earth, where to live? Is there another world we can escape into / Let yourself be inspired to draw a realistic image: Where there are universes from pure imagination.

When we dream it often happens in glimpses. In glimpses, dragons and demons can appear in our field of vision / Let yourself be inspired to draw an imaginative image: Where there are murderous animals of the past, the future or the imagination.

It is night. Imagination can take over reality. The imperfect is often the perfect one / Let yourself be inspired to draw a realistic image: Of the world a 100 years from now. A situation, expression, mood or detail: People, animals, biology, geography.