I’m taking a break from hosting art challenges on this account starting in January 2026. 🌊 If you’re looking for monthly art challenges, this is a good place to start:

Kick in the Creatives

Art Challenges - A List By Month

Looking for an art challenge? We've compiled a list of some of the best art challenges in a list month by month...

If you want daily prompt lists, Doodlewash has you covered (it focuses on watercolor, but you can use the prompts for whatever media you want to work in):

Doodlewash®

Art Challenges - Monthly Watercolor & Drawing Challenge - Doodlewash®

Who's ready for fun art challenges? Every month, I offer up a watercolor and drawing art challenges with a set of daily prompts! Join us!

Instagram is a good place for artist-led challenges and a general search can give you results from past years, which you can pull ideas from to mix up your own personal art challenge. 🎨🖌️ Whether you “finish” an art challenge or just make one thing, if you created more art than month by attempting an art challenge than you would have without it, You Win!!! 🏆 #art #artstr #artchallenge

Happy December!!! A month of many things, as you can tell because I’m posting this on the 3rd instead of the 1st. 😅 In the spirit of that spirit, this month’s art challenge is an easy one: Post a piece of art you created in 2025. That’s it. Use the hashtag #nostrartstrDec2025 if you like. Use this tracker if you like. It’s pretty satisfying to put a big check in that box after you post and know, if nothing else happened to get done that day, you’ve completed the NostrArtstr December Art Challenge!!!! 🎉🫂💜 PS. If you didn’t have a chance to create art this year, do you want to make art in 2026? #art #artstr #artchallenge #december

Happy November! 🍁 A traditional November Art challenge is #huevember where each day is associated with a specific color. Keith Ryan has a great breakdown on his website:

Keith Ryan Studio

Home - Keith Ryan Studio

Art, Ideas, Possibilities & Discovery

- he also made a color chart with hex values for the digital art folks. I’m going to get back to @existing sprinkles calendar art challenge of month-specific artwork for 2026 - check out her profile for more info. Whether you take on an art challenge or not, I hope you make time this month to create. 💜🫂 #art #artstr #artchallenge #grownostr

Happy October!!!!! This month is filled with all kinds of art challenge prompt lists, from the official Inktober, to a range of themes including fall, books, and birds. Or go classic Halloween 🎃 or even cute Halloween. 👻 Here are a few prompt lists from Instagram if you’d like something to help you create art this month …. You don’t have to make something every day - if, at the end of the month, you made more art following a challenge than you would have without, then you win!!! 🏆 #artchallenges #art #artstr #grownostr

If you’re interested in an easy, 5 day art challenge to end your August, Amy Maricle is running The Simplest Thing:

JOIN THE SIMPLEST THING CHALLENGE - IT

- from August 25-29. Email required for sign up so you can receive the journal prompts. I’ve done Amy’s Inchie Challenge and some of her Slow Drawing sessions and really enjoyed them. I’ll have @npub1wdpf...0p5m art challenges ready for the rest of the months this year, so Amy’s Simplest Thing could be a fun warm-up if you took a Summer break like I did. 🎨 #artchallenge #art #artstr #grownostr #august

I’m taking August off from doing an art challenge, but if you’d like to participate in one, here are some ideas …. Smaugust - dragon art Dogust - dog art If you want a prompt list, Doodlewash has a new one every month:

Doodlewash®

Doodlewash® - AUGUST 2025 ART CHALLENGE!

For August 2025, we have a wonderful set of 31 prompts (always optional)! This Doodlewash art challenge is open to anyone who wants to participate ...

And Kick in the Creatives has an animal prompt list for August:

Kick in the Creatives

31 Animals August Drawing and Painting Art Challenge

For this August art challenge, we are inviting you to create and share a piece of animal art, every day throughout the month.

As always, this is just a suggestion - make any art you want: once a day or only once. If you’ve made more art by the end of the month by participating in an art challenge than you would have, you win! 🫂💜 #artchallenge #art #artstr #grownostr #august

#nostrartstrJuly2025 - Christmas in July 🎄 I love advent calendars and wanted to make my own for this year. Since the countdown starts on December 1st, the calendar has to be created earlier than that date, so why not in July? Here’s a tracker if you’d like to participate- it can be used as a coloring page, to mark the days you create art this month (Christmas-themed or not), or as a counter of how much art you make - which is how I’m going to use it, so I’ll only be coloring in through the 25th. As always, this is just a suggestion- make any art you want: once a day or only once. If you’ve made more art by the end of the month by participating in this art challenge than you would have, you win! 🫂💜 Please use the #nostrartstrJuly2025 hashtag so other folks can find your work this month. #artchallenge #art #artstr #nostronly #grownostr #christmas

#nostrartstrJune2025 - Hot & Cold Hemispheres! 🌎🌏 For June 2025, I wanted to create an art challenge with themes that resonate for nostriches on both halves of the planet. June 20th is the Summer or Winter solstice, depending where you live. So for this month, I have a prompt list that can be interpreted as hot 🔥or cold 🧊; there’s two graphics (same prompt list) in case having a temperature-appropriate visual helps you create. 🏝️🗻 There’s also 2 color palettes, and a tracker. As always, these are just suggestions- make any art you want: once a day or only once. If you’ve made more art by the end of the month by participating in this art challenge than you would have, you win! 🫂💜 Please use the #nostrartstrJune2025 hashtag so other folks can find your work this month. #artchallenge #art #artstr #nostronly #grownostr #hot #cold

If flowers aren’t your thing and merfolk are, check out the yearly art challenge of MerMay: https://www.mermay.com #artstr #art #artchallenge #mermay

#nostrartstrMay2025 - Flowers! 💐 For May 2025, I have a color palette (the most popular flower colors), 31 flower prompts, and a two page tracker of flower icons that match the prompt list (which also makes for fun coloring pages)! 🎉 All of those are just suggestions- make any art you want: once a day or only once. If you’ve made more art by the end of the month by participating in this art challenge than you would have, you win! 🫂💜 #nostrartstrMay2025 #artchallenge #art #artstr #gm #nostronly #grownostr #flowerstr #coloring

#pastchallenges - as of this date #nostrartstrMarch2025 - Spring Stuff #nostrartstrFeb2025 - Color Our Collections #nostrartstrJan2025 - A Month of Good Mornings #nostrartstrDec2024 - Post Past Art #nostrartstrNov2024 - Play with Color The first Nostr art challenge I hosted was #nostrichnovember in Nov. 2023 from my Rustypuppy account. I created French Fashion Nostriches of the 1920s, one of which is used as the profile pic for this NostrArtstr account.

#pastchallenges - as of this date #nostrartstrFeb2025 - Color Our Collections #nostrartstrJan2025 - A Month of Good Mornings #nostrartstrDec2024 - Post Past Art #nostrartstrNov2024 - Play with Color The first Nostr art challenge I hosted was #nostrichnovember in Nov. 2023 from my Rustypuppy account. I created French Fashion Nostriches of the 1920s, one of which is used as the profile pic for this NostrArtstr account.

#nostrartstrMarch2025 - Spring Stuff! For March 2025, I have a color palette, a prompt list, and a new tracker for you celebrating the Season of Spring! Create anything you want - a daily thing, or work all month on a single big project. Consider the color palette and the prompts as guidelines. Remember, if you’ve made more art at the end of the month playing along with this art challenge than you would have otherwise, you win the art challenge. #spring #artchallenge #art #artstr #nostronly #grownostr #colorpalette #promptlist

Time for the NostrArtstr December Art Challenge: POST PAST ART!!!! Since December comes with all of its own challenges and obligations, I wanted this month’s art challenge to be easy. To participate, sometime this month, just once, post art you made this year. Or art from last year. Or art from years ago. I’ve also made a tracker if you’d like to use it to keep yourself motivated (second image) - check the box after you’ve made your past art post to #nostr And if you don’t have any past art to post …. maybe you want to make some art in 2025 …. ? I’ll be post monthly art challenges to this account if you want to follow along. For all the past art you post this month, please use the hashtag #nostrartstrDec2024 - thanks! * The little doodle people in the promo images is from a Skillshare class I took this year. #pastart #artchallenge #art #artstr

If you’d like to see how one person did a single color challenge, check out this video playlist from Ten Hundred: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjvuq1J91QkYE2Nv-QQopXXv0mPKsagKh He painted some awesome stuff using shades and tones of a single color. There are 4 videos: pink, green, blue, and yellow. And if you thought TurdSoup.com gives you interesting random word prompts, this guy got his prompts from doing an Instagram Live, so yeah, lots of stuff going on in his paintings. #inspiration #nostrartstrNov2024 #color #artchallenge #turdsoup

Ready for the NostrArtstr November Art Challenge? This month is about playing with color. If you want a 30 day goal, spend 5 days with a color. Basics are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Or pick your own colors, if you prefer pink, brown, turquoise, black, white, or peridot. It’s your art challenge, make it something you want to accomplish. I’m going to be swatching out tubes of watercolor and …. doing something with the swatches. Not sure yet what. I’m more of a binger than a daily person, so my goal is 30 bits of art by the end of the month. Given that the day is half over, I’m going to clean my art desk and start swatching tomorrow. Free tracker available at

NostrArtstr - Art Challenges by Rustypuppy

NostrArtstr - Art Challenges by Rustypuppy

Art challenges and resources by Rustypuppy

if you want one to print and keep visible during the month as a bit of a poke … I mean, motivation. ;) Please use #nostrartstrNov2024 if you share your art - I’d love to see what you create. #artchallenge #art #artstr #nostrartstr #nostronly #grownostr #plebchain