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. :)
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This week’s theme at Sunday Postcard Art is Amour. I reached for my ARTchix Studio collection of images.
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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.
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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.
Another couple of busy weeks have left very little art time, but I thought I’d post now before the third week passes again!
Let’s start with a painting - this is a square companion piece to the round one I posted a few weeks ago - I’m loving the pink/grey/green combo. This one is 24” square on wood.
The tarot deck is coming slowly but surely. Here is the devil.
And the Star.
A couple of mixed media pieces on recycled box panels - both using my gelli prints as a base.
And last but not least, a few art journal pages.
And one more little mixed media postcard to top it off.
I guess that doesn’t look so bad for two weeks after all. Thanks so much for joining me today - see you next week!
This week, I’m thrilled to be hosting Sunday Postcard Art once again. My theme is “For the Birds. If you’re playing along, I hope you enjoy the theme. Here is my card.
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This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art is Pens and Nibs.
I used to have a really nice stamp with old-fashioned pens and nibs - I either got rid of it or can’t find it. I have some pen nibs somewhere, but where? Who knows! So I decided to draw my own.
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This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art is Winter is Here. We’ve been pretty lucky here on the West Coast of Canada and have yet to see any snow this year. However, we are set for a cold snap this week including a few days of light snow and below freezing temps. Hope that you are keeping warm whatever the weather.
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This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art is Frida Kahlo.
My postcard includes a faux post of Frida from ARTchix Studio, along with some of the symbols she included in her paintings (birds, butterflies and black cats all figured prominently in her art). As well as a quote from the artist herself. The full quote is “I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint”. Certainly this is related to her horrific bus accident and the constant, chronic paint she suffered afterwards.
Thanks so much for joining me today. I hope you’ll come back soon. I plan to publish another ‘two weeks in review’ post tomorrow (or is it three?!).
