From January 30th to February 28th, 2025, artist Ron Gross, in partnership with LINDA CHIDO ART, will be leading the Crayonuary® 30-Day Challenge.
The Crayonuary® 30-Day Challenge is your golden opportunity to immerse yourself in the therapeutic wonders of daily drawing. For the next thirty days, your mission is to do one drawing a day with crayons. Why crayons, you ask? Well, not only are they colorful sticks of joy, but they also have a magical way of breaking down barriers that other art tools might present. And let’s be honest – crayons are just plain fun!
How the Crayonuary® 30-Day Challenge works
Starting January 30th, make a daily drawing with a crayon or several crayons. Any type and any color that tickles your fancy. Just draw. The only “rule” is that you can only use crayon. Your drawing can be as simple as a line or as complex as you want. You decide. Your drawing can take two minutes or two hours, there are no time limits. Just go with whatever flow you are feeling in the moment. Your mission is to make a crayon drawing every day for the next 30 days.
After you’ve completed your crayon drawing and if you feel comfortable doing so, we’d love for you to share your drawings on social media with the hashtag (#crayonuary30). You can also share your drawings with Ron by emailing him at twelvesquaredART@gmail.com. If you want to keep them to yourself, that is okay too.
We know you will get great benefits from the crayon drawing practice. The most important thing is that you do one drawing every day for thirty days.
A few things to consider…
- Only use crayons! Any crayons will do. Even those little packets you sometimes get from a restaurant. And any paper will do too. You don’t need any fancy art supplies to join in this challenge. Crayons and paper. That’s it!
- If you’re feeling like, “heck yeah!, I want to join the Crayonuary® challenge”, but the blank page is freaking you out. We got you. Linda and Ron have designed a Crayonuary 30-Day Journal just for you. It will help you get your crayon mojo going. It has daily prompts at the beginning of the month so you don’t have to face the blank page alone. Once you have your cray-on, you’ll have daily journal pages to unleash your inner creative genius for the rest of the month.
- The Crayonuary Journal on Amazon.com is available NOW! you can order a printed version from Amazon.com. The printed journal from Amazon.com is: 8.5″ x 11″, white paper, premium color ink, with a durable soft matte cover, for $14.99 or you can purchase a PDF download of the Crayonuary Journal here.
- We have a month of cray-z fun planned. So be sure you are following us on social media.
You can follow us on Instagram:
Ron Gross: https://www.instagram.com/im12squared/
LINDA CHIDO ART: https://www.instagram.com/lindachido/
And be sure to follow the hashtag: #crayonuary30.
And if you live in the Austin, TX area, I will be giving a Crayonuary® Challenge workshop at the Buda Public Library on January 30th from 6:30 PM-7:30 PM. The workshop is being sponsored by LINDA CHIDO ART and a few of our favorite crayon companies (Color Swell, Stockmar/Mercurius, and Caran d’ Ache), who are all donating supplies. We’ll be giving out lots of crayons for all, to get you started. The library staff asks that you please make a reservation. You can do so HERE.
The Crayonuary© 30-Day Challenge beckons – where each crayon stroke is a step towards a more vibrant, relaxed, and creatively fulfilled you. So, get ready to get your cray-on, because every day a page is waiting to be filled with the magic of your imagination!
Join us and get your Cray On!