This week marked the end of the 100 day project. I had a lot of fun doing this project - it didn’t seem like a chore at any time.
I tried to take a group photo of all 100 - it was hard but I managed to get this one:
I spent a couple of hours putting them all into a book today too! Here’s a shot of the edges of the book.
And one of the pages open.
I also continued to work on the index card a day challenge (ICAD)
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Thanks so much for joining me today. Stay safe out there!
This week I’ll start with my latest painting, titled “Celebration”. It’s 20” square on cradled wood panel and will be presented in a black metal frame. This one is truly mixed media as it includes collage, gelli prints, acrylic paint pens, graphite pencil and water soluable crayon in addition to acrylic paint.
Next, let’s look at this week’s 100 day project cards.
These exes are from a hand-carved stamp I made recently.
The comedy and tragedy masks are also hand carved by me.
The background here is a mix of acrylic ink (the gold-coloured dots and lines) and water soluble crayons.
The shapes along the right side are another hand carved stamp.
And this last card has a piece of personal ephemera. I found some old wedding presents when I was going through my parents’ things and found this shipping label on one of them. From my dad’s uncle and his wife. All are long gone now.
Next let’s look at this week’s index cards from the ICAD challenge.
A little citrus sliced hand-carved stamp as well as the black marks below.
These “lanterns” are also my hand-carved stamps.
I’ll finish up with a couple of pictures of our local wildlife. Young deer are prevalent right now.
And this goldfinch has been hanging out at our windows for a week now.
Baby quails out for a walk under supervision.
Thanks so much for joining me today. I’ll be back next week. In the meantime, stay safe.
Glad to be all caught up - this should be a shorter post!
Let’s start with a completed painting. This beauty is 24” square on wrapped canvas - I can’t wait to frame it.
Now on to the latest index cards for the Index Card a Day challenge - this week, we passed the half way mark.
First up, card 29. I used one of my new hand-cut bird masks I made recently.
July 1 was Canada Day, and I actually remembered to use a Canadian stamp this year. :)
For card 32 I skipped the bingo number in favour of this beautiful postage stamp. These are my rules to break after all!
Card 33 features one of the new hand carved stamps I made this week.
Card 34 was for July 4, and I also remembered to use a US stamp that day! Also featuring another hand carved stamp.
And last one for this week - card 35.
Now I’ll catch up on the latest pieces for the 100 day project - we are getting really close to the end. The reason I don’t have seven this week is because I got ahead of myself (again) and messed up the numbers. The last day will be July 15.
This one features yet another simple hand carved stamp.
Here’s a spread for the Sketchbook Project. Apparently I’ve moved away from COVID and onto adultery - haha! This book must be mailed by August 15 which is just around the corner. I have 2 full spreads and 1 half spread left so no problem!
This one is an abstract that is the first page of the book.
I’ll sign off with one final 2” collage diptych.
Thanks so much for joining me today. Stay safe.
Phew! I am going to try to keep up better in the future. This catching up has been a lot of work!
Let’s start off with the last two weeks of the Index Card A Day Challenge (aka ICAD):
18 is probably one of my favourites. I love the background, but mostly I like the woman looking out over the building - kind of like we are all doing at the moment as we start to venture out a bit more, which is why I thought the capture “inching forward” went well with the card.
And here’s another COVID-type card. Don’t you think a fashionable space helmet would be a great idea right about now?
This one has a subtitle: sometimes Mr. Peanut forgets how recognizable he is. I crack myself up.
Yes, I did cut out images from stamps...
The birds in the next two cards almost hit the recycling bin. You see they were originally from pairs of birds, and so their tales were obscured by their mates. As I went to toss them in the paper recycling I stopped and thought - what if I just replaced their tails!?
And finally, we reach today’s card, 28. We’re almost 1/2 way through ICAD already!
Now it’s time to catch up on the 100 day project, which will wrap up in a couple of weeks.
Other things I’ve been doing:
A bunch of tiny (2” or under) collages for an online challenge:
Some random postcards:
And last but not least, a journal page.
Thank you so much for joining me today while I got caught up. Hopefully as of next week we’ll go back to weekly posts that will be a bit less daunting!
Stay safe.
Last week we made it to May 31. So this week, let’s try to make it through 1/2 of June. Catching up is hard work!
Let’s start with a look at my entries for the Index Card a Day challenge, affectionately known as ICAD. This year, this creative challenge is in its 10th year. I figured out this is my 7th year participating. The challenge was started by Tammy Garcia at Daisy Yellow Art This challenge is not about making masterpieces, but about building a daily creativity “habit” that fosters creativity for its participants, and brings them all the benefits of living a creative life.
Here are my first 14 cards. I have decided to start with two common elements for each card. First of all, each card will start with a gelli print, directly onto the card. Secondly, I’ve placed a bingo number on each card that indicates the card number (1 - 61). Ok there’s three - thirdly, I’ve decided that each card will be landscape orientation.
I found these words in an old typing book and thought they were perfect for Tammy’s idea of creative “habit”.
This next one was fun and a “happy accident”. I started with a single image. My plan was to alternate the floral picture with the picture of the little girl and then I skipped one of the girl by mistake. Then I realized I could actually make her a twin! It would have been a much different result if I’d stuck to plan. Her face would have been very distorted, which would have also been fun, but in a different way.
And this one was actually created with the lower part of the girl’s portrait as she is holding grapes - no scrap too small!
Ok - enough ICADs for one week - let’s go see what’s happening on the 100 day project.
And last but not least there were a bunch of other odds and ends.
A mixed media painting on paper:
And a couple of mixed media, monochromatic, postcards.
Thanks so much for joining me today while I catch up on my back catalogue! If I can keep on track we’ll be all caught up by next week and then we can go back to weekly updates. Stay safe.
Today I’ll catch up to the end of May. That will give me a fresh start next week to catch up from June 1, which coincides with the beginning of the Index Card a Day Challenge (ICAD).
Let’s start with the 100 day project updates:
I made a couple of mixed media postcards:
For some reason the other one doesn’t want to show up as a photo, but it was similar in a slightly lighter palette, just me playing around with shapes and marks.
I made a collage for the Februllage online challenge and was thrilled to have it featured on their Instragram feed.
I also did a few ‘warm-up’ cards for ICAD, although not really necessary when I’m already doing a daily project, it was fun nonetheless.
Last but not least, here is a group shot of my outgoing postcards for the IHanna DIY Postcard Swap:
Thanks so much for joining me today as I continue to catch up for the past couple of months. Stay safe out there!
Well, I didn’t realize I was this far behind! The last “week in review post I made was on May 3, and here it is June 7. I don’t want to make one giant post, so I think I’ll try to do a couple of weeks at a time until I’m caught up. I’m participating in the 100 day project, and now the Index Card a Day Challenge has started, so I’m making at least two pieces a day. Add painting and journalling and you can imagine that catching up is going to be a big job. So let’s get started:
Here are a couple of weeks of the 100-day project, starting where we left off:
Now I’ll fill in some of the other activities from the same period.
Lots of mixed media / collage happening here. Some are postcards, one was birthday card and some are just for fun.
A little abstract of Venice for a local art contest.
And some art journalling. I’m working on a new journal that includes a lot of interactive pages. This is the opening page, that invites you to “come in”...
And when you open the “doors”, you find this lovely.
Last, but not least, an altered index card as an ICAD warm-up.
Thanks so much for joining me today. I hope you are staying safe as the world adjusts to our “new normal”. Take care!
This week I continued on with the 100 day project - hard to believe we’ve reached day 27 already.
I finished the watercolour paper journal:
I think this next one is my favourite page in the whole book.
The last page includes a pocket. Why I don’t know. To carry reference photos, brushes, pencils? In my case no surprise I’ve added a big bingo card!
Here is the page with the empty pocket:
The bingo card:
All tucked in:
I also made a zine! I haven’t seen or heard of zines in ages - remember when they were big? One of my online friends made one and I thought it would be fun to make one too. I used the one-page format, and I started with a gelli printed sheet. The only problem was when I went to copy it, I realized the piece of paper I used was too big, so some of it got cut off. However, because it is quite abstract and has a pretty unified colour scheme it still worked.
Here it is folded up before being decorated:
Here it is when decorated unfolded:
The back and front covers, respectively:
And the inside pages:
If you are interested in making one of these they’re really easy, quick and fun. Look up “one page zine” and you’ll find the instructions.
Thanks so much for joining me today. Please stay safe. See you next week.
This week was busy.
First off, I completed (and sold) a new painting. The fourth in my Moderna series. 24” x 30” on canvas (and framed).
I also found out one of my paintings was accepted into a show in Vancouver - this one’s on paper and only 5” x 7”. The show will go live online soon, and then it will be the first in-person show whenever the gallery re-opens.
Next, here are the latest in the 100 day project.
I’m having a lot of fun with these - this week we’ve got to #20, or 20% finished the project which wraps up about half way through June. I have confirmed with Tammy Garcia of Daisy Yellow that ICAD is happening again in 2020 so we’ll see how this overlap works out!
I did some more work in the sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project:
And my longish watercolour paper journal (which of course I am using acrylics on).
Last but not least I’ve started a one-page zine (made from a single sheet of paper). I haven’t made one of these for ages but I saw someone making them on Instagram and thought I should get in on the fun.
I’m starting out with a gelli printed page.
Thanks so much for joining me today. Stay safe and well, and if you can, stay home.
See you next week.
This week I’m doing things in a different order - I’m publishing my week in review before my Sunday Postcard Art piece, because I haven’t made one yet.
I’ll start with this week’s pieces for the 100 day project.
I’m really enjoying this series.
Next are some journal pages:
In this page you can see the window I added using a recycled window envelope.
And this page is the flip side (as you can see I wasn’t quite finished with this side when I took the first picture).
And the last page in this journal...
I didn’t do anything with the Sketchbook Project this week.
I did complete quite a few small paintings though.
These three are all on paper.
And this one is a 12” square on cradle board.
A also made a few random mixed media pieces, most on recycled box panels.
I’ve signed up for I Hanna’s DIY postcard swap which I’ve participated in quite a few times over the years. Always a fun event, and nice to see it continuing in these crazy times. Some of these cards may be in my outgoing swap cards.
Thanks so much for joining me today. I hope you’ll come back later to see my piece for Sunday Postcard Art’s theme of Theatre.
Stay safe, and if you can, please stay home.