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    Art Calendar beginnings

    January 6, 2014 - By 

    kathryn wheelI’ve debated a couple years now on joining this challenge.

    I admire those who document their life in some way.

    Yes, I blog. Yes, I keep a calendar both on paper and computer. But that’s not exactly what I had in mind.

    I’ve thought about so many options such as Project Life, December Daily, daily journal or even a pocket calendar such as my mom uses to write a snippet of her day.  Then my mind went back to the art calendar challenge put forth by Kathryn Wheel. I’ve been following several blog friends through there journeys over the past year.  I decided this was the time.

    january calendar

    cold morning

    Besides…it’s way too cold to do anything in the basement where my art space resides. Now that I have the background done for this project, I can do the rest where its warmer.

    I plan to bind each page separately into the book covers using a technique I saw years ago in a library book. Hopefully, I can pull it off when the time comes.

    Remember I said it was cold….

    This is my front door…

    Governor Dayton called off school for today last Friday knowing the Arctic blast we’d be experiencing today.  The kids are hoping for yet another day off tomorrow. I’d say that’s pretty doubtful but they can dream.

    Stay warm and safe everyone!!

     

  • Blog - Crafts

    Operation Write Home

    August 30, 2013 - By 

    At craft club, I learned about an organization called Operation Write Home that provides greeting cards to military personnel for them to send home to loved ones.  They are able to provide these by donations from crafters. sketch 187

    What a cool idea!! I’m so in!!

    While browsing the site I saw that they often do challenges in the form of a sketch for cards. You can take the sketch and make any kind of card you so desire.

    The latest was sketch#187.  This is my interpretation.

    thoughts of youthanks

     

    I don’t usually work that way when it comes to cards, so this was quite a challenge for me.

    I’m thinking I’ll try and work through a few more of the sketches from previous challenges to see if I can work on my direction following. 🙂

    In the mean time, I’ll still be creating cards in my own way.

    Going with my instinct…letting it happen naturally.

    Sometimes I love the end result…sometimes not.

    The point is to keep on being creative every day.

     

    And by the way….

    thanks for stopping by.

  • Art - Blog

    Two blue challenge

    July 10, 2013 - By 

    birds on a wireI know that title looks like I don’t know the difference between two and too but in this case two is the proper usage.

    The challenge was to use at least two different blues in your artwork. I used way more than two.  🙂

    After I got all the background finished it looked like a sky to me. Since I have some fun bird on a wire washi tape I painted in some telephone poles so they’d have somewhere to perch. The plane was an afterthought but I think it was needed to give some depth to the page.

    I imagine myself laying on the ground, listening to the birds in between planes coming in for a landing at the nearby airport.