Wind can change a landscape in many ways.
It can make grass ripple like gentle waves, make trees in the forest tremble from top to bottom, or it can stir up the blue ocean and turn it ashen gray.
Warm wind is a harbinger of spring, it can create heavy rain in summer with strong typhoons, or cover the landscape with fallen leaves in autumn and snow in winter.
Our first challenge for October is ‘Wind’, which is the movement of air created by differences in atmospheric pressure.
Among the different types of winds, one in particular is created by the Earth’s atmospheric circulation.
It is said that trade winds played an important role in navigation, helping explorers to discover new countries and lands.
In the polar regions, you get polar easterlies that create extremely cold weather.
Wind circulates our atmosphere and it creates different climates and ecosystems, playing a big role in the birth of unique cultures in each corner of the world.
Each region has a name for the winds that often affect it.
In the past, people believed wind was a phenomenon created by the gods.
Hence, names were given to winds that blew consistently across a certain region.
Of these, the Mistral affects agriculture in southern France, the Harmattan lowers the temperature in the Sahara Desert, and the Chinook in the Rocky Mountains of the United States melts snow and raises the temperature.
For this challenge, you might enjoy learning the names of particular winds, then drawing images that come to mind when you think about those names.
Wind has many meanings in art.
On one hand, it can be a symbol of positive things such as travel, change, relaxation, and abundance.
On the other hand, it can have negative connotations such as separation and adversity, oppression, and hardship.
So, what comes to your mind when you think of wind?
From the various landscapes created by the wind to the myths and legends about wind, try drawing pictures of the many forms and images of wind for our challenge this month.
This will be proceeded for 15 days.
From October. 1, Tue (GMT) to October. 15, Tue (GMT).
The challenge is running based on GMT.
Therefore, the start and end times differ depending on time zone of each country, so please refer to GMT time when uploading your work.
We look forward to your participation and amazing works!
Thank you.