Pink Bird Studio

Weeks in review - AKA the Catchup Post

It’s been a very busy few weeks since I posted.  I have not had much art time, but I have managed to keep up with the index card a day (ICAD) challenge.

 

Here are the cards I’m using this year - such fun colours and from the dollar store so great price too!

I actually did some warm-up cards in no particular theme before the challenge started:

After that it was June 1, and I actually decided to try out Tammy’s daily prompts for the first week.

Day 1 - prompt “Mailbox”

Day 2 - “peppermint”

 

Day 3 - Magenta

Day 4 - “Reflection”  

Day 5 - “Tourist Map” (of my home town - reassembled)

Day 6 - “Leaf”

And Day 7 - “Stencil” 

Well that was enough daily prompts for me.  Next I decided to play along with the weekly themes (because these next two weeks I love the themes).

Week 2 was “collage” - hello!  My favourite thing!

And now we’re two days into week 3 - which is mark making - my other favourite thing!

I also participated in Hannah’s DIY International Postcard Swap.  I had enough postcards already made to send out.

And finally I had a bit of time yesterday to finish an art journal spread started weeks ago.  

Thanks so much for joining me today - sorry this post has been quite lengthy.  I should be back next Sunday with my usual week in review with more ICADs and hopefully a finished painting.

Week in Review

I can’t believe a week has gone by again.  

I will start off with more announcements:

First of all, i received great news this week that my local art gallery (the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria) has accepted three paintings of mine for their Summer Small Works Show in June.

Next I have received the “sneak preview” link of the Annual International Mail In Exhibition at the Federation Gallery on Granville’s Island.  I had two small paintings accepted into this show of small works on paper.

Here is the link: https://artists.ca/show/2019_aimae_the_annual_international_mail_in_art_exhibition

And my two pieces for the theme “home”, which feature my own hand-carved stamps: They are both the same size, but the first shows the mat.

 

Finally, here are this week’s creations:

Several collages on recycled boxes:

A couple of art journal pages:

And a couple of 12” square paintings on canvas.

Thanks so much for joining me this week!  Don’t forget - ICAD starts next Saturday.

Week in Review

Another busy week has flown by.  It’s often tough to carve out time for art, but I have managed to produce some small pieces.  Except for the last one, these are all little collages on either recycled boxes, or recycled (failed) paintings on paper that I’ve cut up.

And a page in the kraft journal.

Thanks so much for joining me this week - I hope you have a wonderful week.

Week in Review

First of all I have some exciting news - I had four mixed media wood panels accepted into the juried Postcard Competition and Online Exhibition on the Federation of Canadian Artists’ website.  You can see the exhibition Here  Better yet, I also won an honourable mention prize.  That means they are printing my collage painting “Travel Diary” (shown below) into postcards, and I will get 10 of them sent to me.  

Now onto this week’s work.

I made quite a few abstract collage /paintings on recycled boxes.

I made some collaged hearts:

And a page in the kraft journal.

Thanks so much for joining me today.  Will you be doing the Index Card a Day challenge this year?  It’s less than a month away!  Visit the Daisy Yellow Blog Here to find out more about this year’s challenge.  If you’re in - will you be doing a theme?  Following the prompts?  Just letting creativity strike randomly?  I have never used the prompts.  I feel a little guilty because I know how much work Tammy puts into these.  Last year I was doing my 365 Somethings challenge, so it was all about hearts.  This year I’m not sure, but I know I will join in again.  Hope you will too.  See you next week!

Week in Review

 

This week was a busy one with lots of projects completed.

I’ll start with two more quirky portraits.

I’ve started a series of collage / paintings.  Maybe I haven’t finished as many as I thought - haha.  Here is one of them.  Inspired by Jane Davies’ “extreme layering” she describes on her Blog, I’ve used up many layers of gelli prints, sanded them down and then added some collage and marks on top.  I really love the look and the process, and will be doing more.  I have four more on the go.

Next are four wood panels (8” x 24” each).

And a birthday card.

And a little collage on recycled box.

Thank you so much for joining me today!  I hope you have a wonderful week.

Week in Review

Lots of projects on the go this week including a new series of paintings.  Unfortunately they won’t be ready to share until next week, but for now, this is the week in review:

A mixed media altered bingo card...

An abstract in watercolour crayon and acrylic pens...

And a bunch of collages on recycled boxes.

Using lots of gelli brings and lovely papers I’ve been hoarding.

Next up a series of paintings on paper.  This one I call West Coast Weather.

The next two are still untitled.

Last, but not least, a mixed media page in my large journal.  I might dedicate the whole book to these, unless I don’t.  :) I think it turned out really fun and will definitely make more - whether or not it holds my attention through 40 pages remains to be seen!

Thanks so much for joining me - I hope you have a wonderful week.

Week in Review

This week, I completed a painting that’s been in the works for quite some time.  It’s 16” square and I’m quite pleased with it.

I also did some more pages in the old shorthand book:

A couple of pages in the kraft journal

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And a card on a piece of recycled box

Thanks for joining me today!  I am taking an image transfer class this weekend and hope to have some samples to share next week.  Have a great week!

Week in Review

It was a busy week, and I’m a bit later than my usual Sunday post.  I started it this morning then lost the whole shebang when I navigated away from the page to go and edit one of my pictures.  So here we go again.  

I’ll start with three small paintings I completed this week.  They are 8” x 10” on board.

There was also some journalling happening...

And some index cards:

And a card.

I also wanted to share a collaborative fun project.  One of my Instagram friends sent me some of her 5-minute collages from a former daily art project.  She said I could alter them, cut them up, keep them as is.  Of course I wanted to alter them!  You can visit Teri at her website: https://www.terifridleystudios.com

1 Before

1 After

2 before

2 after

3 before

3 after

Such fun!  Thanks so much for joining me today!  

Week in review

This week is again, mostly journal entries.

This first one is in my big kraft journal.  The pattern in the background is made from a fancy placemat I bought to use as a stencil.  

Another page in the kraft journal.

This one is in the journal I posted about last week that was started in London UK.  The next few pages are in the same journal, but these ones were not started yet, so they are completed from start to finish this week.

 

This is the last page in that journal.  It was fun to finish up!

I also found another book I started in the UK - this one is an old shorthand book I started altering in circa 2015.  I can actually remember where I found this book - in a used bookshop in Camden Market.

And this one was in the same book - I like the printing showing through.

And another page in the shorthand b ook.  On the left side you can actually see the shorthand.  

Thanks so much for joining me today - have a great week!

Week in Review

This week was a real mixed bag - mostly journal entries, but I’ll start with an odd altered index card.  

More in the journal that was started in the UK - this page wasn’t started though.  The background is a piece of an atlas page that I’ve been using to blot up excess paint from other projects.

This page was started in the UK - all those pretty oranges and yellows were painted on the page, but nothing else.

Here’s a page in my big new kraft journal.

Another page in the UK journal - this one did have some gesso on it, but that was about it.

In the same journal, this page was already gray.

And this page?  I don’t remember if it was started or not.

This page already had the background colours, the music pages and red circles - everything else was added this week.

And another page that was already painted grey.

Another altered index card.

A single page in the UK journal - can’t remember it being started.

And last but not lease, another page in the kraft journal.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  Have a great week.