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This Sunday, I’m delighted to be hosting at Sunday Postcard Art again. This week, my theme is Maps. If you’re playing along, I hope you enjoy the theme!
Thanks so much for joining me today - please come back tomorrow for my week in review post. I’ve had a couple of extra days off work this week so there’s lots to see!
This week it might look like I’ve done a lot of art work, but some things are just getting completed after being in progress for weeks if not months.
Let’s start with paintings.
A big 36” square one - “Meet me at the Fountain”. I actually finished this one quite some time ago but didn’t know if it was done or not. This week I decided to declare it “done”. I figure if i can’t decide what else to add it must be done right?
Next up a 16” square piece - as yet untitled. This one has been in progress for 2 - 3 weeks.
And then a 12” square - completed in the same time frame. This one is a commission. I hope the buyer likes it (and the recipient since it’s a gift).
And last but not least, a couple of paintings on paper. 9” x 12” ish.
I also worked in my journal...
And made a piece of recycled mail art.
And that’s the week in review this week. Thank you so much for joining me!
This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art is Airplanes. I drew my own paper airplane, and added an airplane postage stamp. Lyrics (slightly wrong on my part - first word should be “can” but I wrote “could’) from B.O.B. - “Airplanes”:
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now.
Thanks for joining me today, and please come visit tomorrow for my week in review post to see what else I’ve been doing art-wise.
Here’s what I’ve been up to this week art-wise.
A couple of little mixed media pieces:
A few journal pages - lots of birds!
And a couple more abstract journal pages. These are in a big 10” square kraft journal.
I also pre-made a postcard for Sunday Postcard Art which I’m hosing on March 1 but you’ll have to wait to see that one! Thanks so much for joining me today.
This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art is Literature. I chose to include some sample text from Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel - The Goldfinch. While I did enjoy the book, I chose it more because I”m into birds at the moment. :)
Thanks for joining me today - I hope you’ll come back tomorrow for my Week in Review post.
This week I had the honour of presenting about my work at the Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts Society (SPAC) where I have been a member for a few years. It was a bit daunting, but fun and everyone seemed to enjoy my chat. Thanks to SPAC for the opportunity.
Other than that, here is the week’s work in review.
i made a few journal pages...
As usual, I also made a few mixed media pieces on recycled box panels.
thanks so much for joining me today!
This week’s theme at Sunday Postcard Art is Amour. I reached for my ARTchix Studio collection of images.
Thanks so much for joining me today. I will be back tomorrow with my week in review post.
This week I’m starting at the end of the week (today) with a couple of entries for a new mail art show being put on by my local artist friend Dale Roberts later this year. This is the 6th in his series of MailMania shows, and you can find out all the details on the show blog Here I hope you decide to play along - it’s always great to see people I know from far and wide (and near too) with art in a local show!
The show has a theme - beginnings and endings. And although I’m not much of a theme person, I thought I’d actually play along to the theme for a change. So here is my “beginning”
And my “ending”. No you are not imagining things - this looks a lot like my “death” tarot card!
While I was away from home earlier in the week I entertained myself with the following small journal entry:
I ask you, who wouldn’t feel a bit uncomfortable with that hairdo?!
When I got back I finished a couple of other journal spreads during the week...
The first (hopefully obviously) celebrating the new lunar new year.
And the other just using up stuff laying around...
I’ll end the way I started, with a postcard. this guy doesn’t have a destination yet.
Thanks so much for joining me today.
This week’s theme at Sunday Postcard Art is Dragons. Hmmm - what to do? I remembered I had some stamps from the Year of the Dragon, so I pulled one out. I couldn’t decide what to add to it, until I thought why don’t I just let the stamp inspire a dragon drawing? so that’s what I did. Freehand drawing with ink - no pencil underneath, just the way I do crosswords. :)
Thanks so much for joining me today! Please come back tomorrow to see my “week in review” to see what other art I’ve been creating this week.
