Second Floor

February 27, 2012 Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Read all about how Second Floor came about here.

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Here’s the deal with the challenge:

Nat & I have made a one-year commitment to each other and our “Second Floor” project.
Every few weeks we will issue a challenge (just something to spark some creativity – sometimes starting without a prompt can be very intimidating).
Your assignment is to take that challenge and make some art.
Here’s the most important part: at some point you need to “take it to the second floor.” What does that mean? It means trying something vastly out of your comfort zone. Doing something that might not work. Experimenting with a crazy idea. It’s all about pushing yourself. If it works, awesome. If it doesn’t work, awesome!
If you want to participate publicly, we’ll have a linky list for each challenge.
If you don’t want to participate publicly, that’s cool too. It takes a lot of courage to put yourself – not necessarily at your best – out there.
We have a private flickr group set up for those of you who want to share semi-publicly but within the safe confines of a private group. There’s also a message board as part of the group. If you want to join the flickr group, you will need to e-mail us at (secondfloorchallenge AT gmail DOT com) and we’ll send you an invitation.

I believe that in one year, we’ll all be better artists with a whole bag of new tricks. As the old saying goes, a year from now you’ll wish you had started today. I’m hopeful that this project will inspire lots of people to take the time to experiment and push themselves a little further.

As each challenge is issued, you will be able to find the links here:

Challenge #1: Gold Paint