A paper collage with abstract and space-like shapes arranged on a black paper square surrounded by art supplies on a wooden desk. The collage lays on a green cutting mat. White coloured pencil crayon title on the bottom corner of the collage: Abstract Advent ‘25.
Solved! Late, but fun. #abstractadvent2025
24 drawings in pencil and pen. Mostly black green and yellow.
Here are my 24 drawings for #AbstractAdvent2025.
We’ve been using Abstract Advent at work to start off lessons this month: abstract shapes taken from children’s book illustrations that we turned into whatever came to mind.
Some really tricky ones this year but I did enjoy the process.
The hand-drawn profiles of two men with closed eyes facing one another. The man on the left has dark skin and black hair, the man on the left has grey hair and light skin. They both have beards and moustaches.
The shape for day 17 of #AbstractAdvent2025 looks like a squiggly arrow pointing down.
Day 17 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 are two bearded men facing each other. Are they lovers? Close friends? Mortal enemies? Who knows… ⚡️
A hand-drawn kitchen counter with a striped teapot, a potted plant sitting on top of 3 stacked books, and a window looking out to the low winter sun.
Ok, I’ve missed the past 4 days of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025, so today I made up for them all by making a drawing that encompasses all those shapes alongside today’s!
Four white paper trading card sized drawings in pencil and coloured pencil, showing creative solutions using personally chosen shapes from art pedagogy’s abstract advent shapes for 2025.
With clay taking priority this month, haven’t had time to do weekly #abstractadvent2025 with kiddos, so they are playing with all the shapes this year (as will I after the 20th). Some commendable 7 year-old starts to artists trading card drawings earlier this past week:
A hand-drawn woman blowing a colourful part horn. She has pink hair and a purple dress. There is multicoloured confetti around her.
The shape for day 11 of #AbstractAdvent2025 is a zigzagy shape laid out vertically on the space.
Day 11 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is a pink-haired woman blowing a party horn 🥳
I really struggled with the shape! But seriously enjoyed colouring in the hair. Hair has always been my favourite part of a drawing, ever since I was a wee pre-teen making Harry Potter fanart.
The hand-drawn face of a reptile with bright yellow and green eyes covers the whole page.
The shape of #AbstractAdvent2025 day 10 is made up of an irregular vertical line with two smaller staggering irregular horizontal lines sticking out of it on each side.
Day 10 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is the giant face of a fantastical reptile! A dragon, perhaps? 🐉
A hand-drawn scene of a colourful fish swimming above a big rock and a patch of seaweed.
The shapes for day 8 of #AbstractAdvent2025 are four squiggly lines laying vertically next to each other.
The shape for day 9 of #AbstractAdvent2025 is an irregular rounded shape with the right side taller than the left side.
I missed yesterday’s #AbstractAdvent2025, so today I made a drawing that incorporates the shapes of both day 8 and day 9! An underwater scene 🐠🪨
Black and white sketch of a tulip-shaped flower and leaves.
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
"An easy evening is appreciated appreciated. "
Pens
Prompt from @artpedagogy #abstractadvent2025 Day 7
#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025
Black and white sketch of a man's bending down and picking flowers and putting them into a handbasket.
Tonight's ANYTHING GOES Sketch:
"Time to pick the flowers"
Pens
Prompt from @artpedagogy #abstractadvent2025 Day 6
#dailysketching #sketch #sketching #crosstraining #blindcontourdrawing #continuouslinedrawing #newmexicoart #newmexicoartist #highonhooking #dailysketch2025 #dailypractice
A hand-drawn image of a white bunny rabbit wearing oversized pijamas and a woolly hat. They are standing in front of a bed.
The shape of day 6 of #AbstracAdvent2025 are two wobbly lines joined at the top, like a pair of wiggly trousers.
Day 6 of @artpedagogy.bsky.social’s #AbstractAdvent2025 is a wee bunny rabbit wearing oversized pijamas and a woolly hat 🐰
I think I immediately gave the bunny pijamas because I used to have Peter Rabbit bedsheets as a child and I LOVED them! 🥰
Green cutting board lays underneath part of a white sheet of paper, X-acto blade, cut out paper shapes and part of a grey coloured black ink pen in top right corner.
It’s shaping up to be a future “kit of parts” kind of thing. Maybe paper toys to play with during the holidays. #abstractadvent2025 #abstractadvent
Grey and Green pen drawing of a gramophone with an unexplained spoke pattern over the ‘mouth’
#AbstractAdvent2025
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