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...

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my readers and fellow Pilgrims on the journey of life.  I so appreciate you reading this blog.  Sharing my art with you has been a joy.  

Thankful for each of you

Christmas Ornament I painted

Enjoy this special day.  Blessings to from  pilgrim

#Inkttober Week 4 Oct. 22 to October 28 - Georgia O'Keeffe

This past week I chose to study one of my favorite artists Georgia O'Keeffe.  She is most known for her flowers and I was intrigued to find out that her scope was very wide.  She used pastels and watercolor in the beginning of her career.  She loved photo's and used techniques related to photography such as cropping photo's of flowers to show a segmented portion of a petal and use it to develop her painting.  She rarely painted portraits.  She in later years oil became her go to medium.

Georgia painted landscapes, scenes from her beloved New Mexico, skulls of dead animals, abstracts and of course flowers.  This is one painter that I would with whom I would have loved to discuss life and art.

There are three days left in October and inktober will be done for another year.  See you in three days.......pilgrim

#Inktober 2018 Week 3 - Study of Paul Klee 10-15 to 10-21

I have been told that my artistic style is reminiscent to Paul Klee.  Well I had never heard of him and decided to look him up.  Over the course of a few years I have read a little about him here and there; but, decided to add him to my study list for Inktober 2018.

I found this information regarding his method of teaching art at the Bauhaus:

1.  Take a line for a walk:  get comfortable with the process.  Use letters, line drawing and symbols to define your artistic language.

2.  Observe a fish tank:  Observing movement in composition of art, even abstract art. The movement of fish in a tank or nature will inspire movement in your work.

3.  Draw the circulatory system:  Klee found drawing the branching of plants, organ systems and water flow added to the depth and composition of works of art.

4.  Weigh the colors:  choosing colors should be simplistic and bold, filled with adventure.  Create your own color wheels; experiment and find harmony even in dissonant pairings of colors.  Embrace color with childlike abandon.

5.  Study the Masters:  compare/contrast/learn techniques from the great artists; not to copy but to help you in starting your artistic journey.

I really enjoyed studying Paul Klee, although it was a real challenge translating his work to pen and ink.  Who will I study next?  Wait and see, until next week.  pilgrim