Monkey Side Bars™

Monkey Side Bars is a twice-a-week drawing game where you are challenged to a piece of art on a specific theme. Players take turns selecting the theme for each round. On the reveal date for each round, we co-ordinate a mass posting to Instagram simultaneously across the globe (see posting times and collages). Be sure to check your posting time. The game is open to all who wish to participate. We welcome all levels of skill from beginners to hobbyists to professionals. All you need is a creative mind, a sense of humor, and a willingness to try. You might have heard it through the ape vine… This game will have you hooked on the monkey bars. Like a monkey likes a banana… it has that appeal. Come monkey around with us and see what all the fuss is about.

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Monkey Side Bars We have had a blast monkeying around supporting and enriching one another in this crazy drawing game.  

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TITILLATE I am absolutely titillated for this week's theme Titillate!  You see my monkey friends, titillate is to excite, arouse, maybe even stimulate in that warm and fuzzy kinda way.  

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SEA-ANIMALS Explore the depths of your imaginations with this week's sea-animal theme.   Hold hands with the otters, slip-n-slide with the seals, and bark along side the sea lions.  

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DODDLE

To become a monkey at the Side Bars is a total doddle.  It’s like eating cake without the guilt and calories.  Doddle represents anything that is simple or easy to achieve for most of us primates. We refer to these events as child’s play, a walk in the park, or a picnic.  How about the lovely slang doddle… pushover, walkover, and cakewalk.  A doddle can be over in a snap, light as a breeze,…

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The Road Warrioress Achieving dizzying new heights @neocapt_art created “The Road Warrioress” for our #188 round of Monkey Side Bars.

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ZODIAC The Zodiac is an elaborate circular coordinate system which follows the positioning and path of the sun and moon.  

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PUNK

  Punk could refer to a youngster that lacks experience.  A punk is sometimes synonymous with a hoodlum, trouble maker, or rebel. Even Ashton Kutcher made a little pocket change ‘punking’ or tricking celebrities for MTV, on the show called Punk’d. The 1970’s gave us the punk fashion, or should we say anti-fashion that aligned with the street culture of the youth.  Punk rock followed with bands…

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AVALON Avalon, a legendary island with many pseudo-historical accounts and featured in the Arthurian legend. King Author's sword Excalibur, was said to be forged here and he himself recovered from his battle wounds on this mystical island.

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HOPE

Hope is a feeling, an attitude that things will improve, that all things are possible.  Hope is the best part of being optimistic and keeps many of us in this game we call life.  We contemplate outcomes and hope for the best.

So for this week’s theme you could go wild with everything you have once hoped for or maybe what you are hoping for now.  And for all those folks lucky enough to be named…

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Optical

What you see is what you get!

What is the meaning of optical you ask? Well it’s basically vision or sight enabled by light. Light is colour.  Colour is light.  Black is the absence of colour or light.  Simple yes ?

Remember that crappy dress where everyone argued its colour and nobody wanted to be wrong? this one…

well whether you said it was blue and black, white and gold, you would have been…

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SPOT-COLOR

Spot-color is a term commonly used in offset printing.  It represents a blast of color used in a single run.  Spot-color draws your attention to a particular spot in the picture.  That being said, you now have the power to dictate where the viewer’s eyes will be directed.

For this week’s theme we are asked to produce images in black and white, images that are then enhanced with a touch of color.…

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PIN-UP

The Side Bars will be dispersing thumb tacks, push pins, and scotch tape for this week’s Pin-Up theme!  Enjoy perusing through loads of glamorous photos and posters.  These pin-ups are not only sexually exciting but normally have an alluring cutesy quality as well.  They are not only models, but actresses and performers too.  According to the great folks at Wikipedia, Burlesque dancers often used…

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BALLOONS

BALLOONS http://wp.me/s3TKn0-balloons

Balloons are sure to delight even the most cynical of party poopers.  These stretchy, colorful bags can be inflated with good ole’ fashion air or pumped up with helium for all sorts of celebrations.  You can even purchase bio-degradable balloons to safely release into the environment.  Watch them drift upward until they are but a speck and vanish into the abyss.  If its hot, there is nothing…

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SHAKA

SHAKA http://wp.me/s3TKn0-shaka

Most of us have used Shaka as a hand gesture known as “hang loose” associated with Hawaii and surf culture.  One must extend the thumb and pinkie finger while holding the three middle fingers curled like you were making a fist, now rotate your hand back and forth.

Hawaiians use the shaka gesture to convey their “Aloha Spirit”.  Moni, our lovely Hawaiian monkey has shared shaka with us and…

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KNURLY

KNURLY http://wp.me/s3TKn0-knurly

A knurl is a knot or knob, and can be portrayed in the literal and abstract sense beautifully. This growth ranges in size and can add tremendous character to objects and people alike. Who doesn’t like a little character?

I absolutely adore those trees that are twisted and knurled, having withstood countless lashings from mother nature.  Knurly wood fashions with their signature burls are now…

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EXPRESSION

Expression, a lovely conveyor of emotion.  Strong emotions are easily read through grief stricken or elated expressions.  A snarling dog or a sleepy monkey are also universally clear expressions.  Some expressions are little harder to read, but just as crucial as we navigate our own Side Bars.

Imagine a world without expression…  We base so much of our interactions on expressions.  They are…

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Autism Awareness compo

Art by Moni aka @moniljs (IG)

“There is nothing more inspiring and moving than art” ~ Moni An excellent compo invite has been added in Sketch Club by a fantastic artist and monkey member – Moni AKA @moniljs – Even if you are notusing Sketch Club as your medium, please feel free to post a drawing to Instagram as we are certain everyone, including Moni, would appreciate seeing your art with regards…

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