Creative Challenges

SKETCHING UNDER A LEMON TREE PT. 7 ✍🏽📙🌳🍋

quick sketch in my dads backyard. Just me, AirPods, sketchbook with my daily favorite PENTEL POCKET BRUSHPEN ! sitting on bench under a lemon tree! No color needed with this sketch even though it ran out at the end.

Still think it worked out perfectly ✍🏽✨

So here’s my entry for the @pentelofamerica #pentelchallengetcu showing my true colors. Not worrying about being perfect, just enjoying the process of whatever happens on the page! Just going with the flow of the ink from my brushpen ✍🏽 todays random sketch reference is the skull cover from one of the evil dead movies.

#NICOGRAFFICS

Thank you for my new supplies, I’m super excited to try them out! #artcycle2026

I create floral displays using damaged or discarded vi

nyl records that would otherwise end up in a landfill for 1000 year

In addition to the small effort of being Earth friendly, I do it in the hopes of bringing joy to the eyes of someone whether it be in visual appeal or simply reminanissing about a long lost record is brought back to life in a differnt form yet in the flowers are still all the lyrics that shaped us.

It’s the last week to join #artcycle2026! We’re inviting creators to turn everyday materials into something extraordinary and share the process here inside the Pentel Challenge Group.

Look around your space. What objects or materials are sitting unused, forgotten, or ready to be thrown away? How can you reimagine their use?

Instead of discarding them, ArtCycle them. We hope to see your submission this week!

From my line of "Compost Club Kids" made with entirely reclaimed materials (yarn, stuffing, buttons and beads)

Hopefully I did this right as my first post, thanks for looking!

#Artcycle

2026

This envelope never made it to a recipient—just storage, nearly tossed… until I realized portraits on envelopes make ordinary paper worth keeping.

Here are my flowers made with repurposed materials. This is the #earthmonthartchallenge by the #repurposercollective. You can see our creations in Instagram on #@artbynatalya.

Hi I posted something previously and I cannot see it.

My daughter has an ever-growing collection of dead pointe shoes (no one told me that pointe shoes are made of glue and cardboard and only last about 15-20 hours of wear 😭), so this year’s ArtCycle challenge was the perfect time to start experimenting with what I can do with them! ❤️

Had a crafty day in the park, making these decorative vegetable plates with our favorite Pentel paint markers!

Show us how you ArtCycle! Create a project using materials that might otherwise go to waste whether they’re from your home, studio, or second-hand sources.

Then share your ArtCycle here inside the Creative Challenge Group, where your work can inspire fellow creators to rethink what they make and how they make it. Together, small creative choices can lead to big impact.

How to Participate

1. Join the Pentel Challenge Group on the Creator Collective

2. Download App first if you are new to the Creator Collective