ICAD Week 7 Days 43 - 49

Whoa, time is moving quickly.  Just as of this week, I have created 49 pieces of art.  It makes me smile.

Amethyst

Billboard base

Billboard on "stilts"

Direction

Wabi Sabi

Topography

Turnpike

Pool

Week 7, wow only a few more days left to this wonderful challenge that I look forward to every year.  Highlights of this week are Direction-the idea that popped into my mind was "Do you know the way to San Jose?", Wabi Sabi, turnpike and Billboard.  I love all of them actually.

Until next week.......pilgrim

ICAD Week 6 Days 36 - 42

Week 6 of ICAD

Thesaurus - the many words for Blob

Botanicals

CLUE

Color Chart

Card Catalog

A Quiet Blue Day

Charge

This was a week of deep thought as I worked on the cards.  It amazes me how things pop into my mind when I look at the prompt.  Some days the thought are really cool such as finding synonyms for the word Blob and drawing a blank on blueprint because I needed a good white pen (hence creating a quiet landscape with various shades of blue with purple mountains).  Creating a library card cataloging the information about a book I would write describing my first 70 years.  Making a charm bracelet by curling out charms from card stock and gluing to the card.

Week 6 in the tank.  Doing art everyday.

Until next week......pilgrim

iICAD 2019 Week 5: Days 29-35

Days 29-35 of Index card a day.

Lemon and Lemonade

Pine Tree

Constellation

Caramel

Ogee

Mismatched

Terra Cotta

The cards from week 5 were a lot of fun to do.  Each is a little work of art.  Some can be framed and some no, but they all have distinct meaning for me and a great form of practice.

Until next week.......pilgrim

Week 4 of Index Card a Day Challenge days 22-28

Week 4 is in the can.  I am learning somethings about myself.  Twice I had to talk myself into continuing and sharing.  Sometimes I just wonder what is the point or if I will create a dud.  Then I have to have a good internal conversation and move forward.  This week was fun actually.  My greatest internal babble related to following the prompts or going off prompt.  I actually did a mixture.  I decided to use one of my original poems (I had to remember it because my book of poems is in Nevada).  I think I did pretty good.  I wanted to use a rose stencil for the Rose prompt because I tell myself I cannot draw a rose; however, I wanted to create a background first.  The background is several layers of washes of red, magenta, orange and yellow.  Then I traced around the rose stencil and it was not what I wanted so I drew in some additional petals and added darker washes.

I really like the interpretation of music and art on the music box card, I think I am going to frame it when I get home.  Last I went back to my abstract art blob series with doodles.  I really need to commit to this series and see where it will take me.

Yellow and Gray abstract - watercolor

Square watercolor blobs with doodles

Music Vibes - abstract of Music Box

Origian Poem

Rose

Doodle Blobs

Architectural Blobs

This daily process is wonderful, however, my challenge is to continue this daily creativity  process once index card a day is over on July 31st.  When I am home with all of my supplies and can sit at my art table and draw and paint.  Give myself permission to do this and not feel guilty about the time I spend doing it.  That is the challenge folks, I am determined to do it, create everyday and have fun.

Until next week.....pilgrim

Index Card a Day days 15 - 21

Third week of Index Card a Day challenge.  Starting to get more comfortable with this process.  Learning so much from other artists participating in the challenge.  What am I learning you say?  I am learning to be free.  Free to try new things, free to make ugly art and free to have fun.

Watercolor Blobs with white and black doodles

Acrylic Wash abstract with doodles

Wood Collage

Spots of Yellow

Abstract with stencils

Modern Chandelier

Stormy Weather

This week was so much fun.  I went off prompt a couple of times, did collage, worked with stencils and tried a technique I saw demonstrated by artist Lindsay Olstrom of putting watercolor on plastic, dragging the card through the color to make a background.  I learned a lot.

Until next week....pilgrim

Days 8-14 of Index Card a Day Challenge

For these ICAD's I had so much fun. I am a little late posting.

Palms

Klimt grid of colors as inspiration

My little village 

Threads

Goggles

Macaron

sapphire - 1

sapphire - 2

The art this week was a lot of fun and off in many different directions.  My least favorite was my idea to try and show the many colors of sapphires.  But it was fun to use my imagination to try and display the various colors.

That is what ICAD is all about, trying new things; sometimes using the prompts and sometimes doing your own thing.  Just having fun.

Until next week.  pilgrim

Days 1 - 7 of Index Card A Day (ICAD)

June 1st, such an exciting day.  The 2019 Index Card a Day challenge begins.  From June 1 to July 31, 61 days of creating everyday.  There is a theme for the week and a prompt for each day.  If the prompt does not float your boat, you can just create whatever makes you feel good.  The main goal is to create everyday.  I started participating in this project in 2015 and it is something I look forward to.

This year I am going to blog and show the cards 7 days at a time.  This is the first post because I had to decide if I really wanted to blog about this experience.  After wrestling with this for a few days,  I decided to give it a go.

The cards I am using are 4x6 index card dividers a little heavier than the white index cards.  I love the way they accept watercolor and gouache.

Below are the cards for the first 7 days.

Giant Peppermint

Mail Art

Reflection

Magenta

Map

Stencil 

Petals and leaves

The first seven days have been a hoot.  Until next week.

Pilgrim...