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#cansontober is back...

September 17 2024

This year, with the wonderful artist @amandine_comte, we invite you to join the #cansontober challenge on Instagram.

The challenge is to create one ink drawing a day on a given theme. The idea is to push yourself out of your comfort zone and get away from the themes you're used to drawing on a daily basis. In short, it's a fun challenge!


This year, we'll be taking our imaginations on a journey through a whole new list of themes chosen by French artist Amandine Comte. Amandine will be creating one illustration a day to match the theme on the list, which will be posted on our Instagram page @cansonpaper. She'll be sharing technical tips, sources of inspiration and lots of other surprises.


If you'd like to take part in this challenge too, feel free to use the hashtag #cansontober. Let your pencils, felt pens, inks or watercolours glide across the paper (preferably Canson 😉 ) and draw each day following the fun & creative themes on the Cansontober list.

 

We look forward to seeing your work and reposting our favourites in the Instagram stories!
 

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A few words about Amandine:   

 

‘I'm a freelance illustrator & design assistant and work regularly with brands & communications agencies in France and abroad in the fields of packaging, publishing, and communications more generally.


My clients include Adobe, L'Oréal, Ponant, Marionnaud, Botanic, Jean-Louis David, le Petit Robert, Warner Classic, etc.
At the same time, I teach graphic design and illustration in applied arts colleges. I also give masterclasses and workshops at events in schools & art fairs, as well as sometimes do live painting for brand events.


Finally, I sell my work on my online shop in the form of limited art prints.’
 

 


Find out more about Amandine :  

https://amandinecomte.com/

https://www.instagram.com/amandine_comte

And here is the list of 2024 prompts to follow in October:

 

01    Luminous
02    Shell
03    Hat
04    Lighthouse
05    Blur
06    Fog
07    Footbridge
08    Abyssal
09    Forest
10    Easter Island
11    Escape
12    Path
13    Tale
14    Wolf
15    Star
16    Dust
17    Reflection
18    Window
19    Elephant
20    Cheetah
21    Hot air balloon
22    Japan
23    River
24    Cloud
25    Alchemy
26    Lover
27    Fantasy animal
28    Mask
29    Froufrou
30    Fringe
31    Magic

 

Happy Cansontober to all !!!!