Collage and Drawing on Index Cards

My index cards for June 30 through July 7, 2011

Stop by DaisyYellow's blog to see other participant's

index cards, or to join the challenge! 

I have found that it is easier for me to 

do several cards in a sitting, rather than

one per day.  But I am trying to stick to 'one a day'

in order to make art every day.

Index cards are a great 'warm up' exercise.

Then I often move on to another project or

my art journal pages... 

Index Card A Day (ICAD) -- Catching Up

'Alphabet'

Collage with painted papers

and markers.

'Blues'

Collage with painted papers,

fabric, and marker.

'Pink and White'

Collage

'Yellow and White'

Collage

'Coffee (and thin bagel)'

Zig pigment pen

'Simple Pleasures'

Watercolor background,

markers and pens.

(I doodled this while listening to 

a podcast of Teesha and Tracy Moore)

'Jeans'

Collage with fabric,

label and stamp

'Pink Sky'

Collage with painted fabric

and painted papers

'Rust'

Gel pen and chalk pastels

'Stitch'

Acrylic background, marker,

embroidery and fabric collage

'Watercolor Rose'

Sketched in pencil,

watercolor applied, let dry;

Pigma pen outlines

'Spring Flowers'

Watercolor, crayon,

and assorted pens

Since I started this challenge late,

I did two cards each of the six days this week,

so now I am caught up.  Be sure

to visit Daisy Yellow  to get the links to see

the work of the other challenge participants!

Index Card A Day (ICAD)

Elizabeth at Altered Book Lover blog

told me that there was an 

Index Card A Day challenge going on

for the summer. I found it at

DaisyYellow's blog.

Card above, 'acrylics' prompt.

Circles

(Crayon and watercolor resist)

Scissors

(Zig permanent marker and watercolors)

Masking Tape

(Collage, Orange painter's masking tape)

Magic Marker

(Sharpie & Sanford Colorific Markers)

Collage

(Fabric, painted papers, scrapbook papers,

Inchie image from a collage sheet)

Collage and Drawing

Mixed media collage on a 4 x 6 index card.

I buy them in a spiral pad so I can take 

them with me. I can work on them 

while on vacation or while waiting

for someone to get done with

an appointment. More fun than

looking at outdated magazines...

A drawing on ledger paper, with some

stamping, purchased tags, and

triangular banners of scrapbook paper,

and painted card stock.

A sketch for some canvases I am thinking

of painting.  3 tall skinny canvases, but

grouped together as one composition.

Colored pencil in my visual art journal.

The right hand larger circle is a light blue. 

On my monitor it is too pale...

trying to use mauve, browns & tans

with accents of blue & purple.

Yesterday's post gave me some trouble,

and I don't know if it was Blogger or

operator error. It will disappear and

this takes its place.

A bit of a dry spell right now,

but hoping to make progress

and get into more drawing!

Scrappy Journal

Looking back, moving forward...

Well said, Vincent...

Art Journal Collage

More pages in the 

Scrappy Green Journal created by

Elizabeth of Altered Book Lover.

I enjoy getting to work

on the substrates that she

made as they are often 

unexpected and stretch my

skills in new ways.

The square with bird & Tweet is

a pocket which can hold 

tags or other bits of

ephemera.  I don't "Tweet"

but couldn't resist the 

word and the bird together...

I've never outgrown paper dolls.

These are a couple that I just

did this week. Maybe it's silly

but it's "my party, and I'll make

paper dolls if I want to."

This one has a fashion magazine

face, drawn over with marker.

I drew the face on this one--

it has a watercolor background,

stamping, drawing, and a 

wallpaper scrap glued on.

In other news, I got a small journal in which 

to start making mysterious drawings 

and diagrams, ala Henry Jones.

(Indiana Jones dad)

I am going to start with diagrams of 

Native American glyphs from

the Ohio river area...

who knows what treasures will

be uncovered?

Painted Paper Collage from Scraps

Collage created using painted paper

on a 4" x 6" index card.

Lines were added using 

Sharpie extra fine tip marker.

Another collage on an index card.

Resist technique done by drawing 

circles and swirls in crayon, then painting

over them with watercolor

or acrylics.

Wrinkled paper is a scrap from

a glimmer mist project.

Scraps can make a striking

work of art.

Art Journal Pages

Continuing to work in the Green Scrappy Journal
that Elizabeth sent me.

'Plunge into Life' is created on top of

a page made from brown paper bag.

The next page shows the tags

peeking out of the paper bag opening,

and from behind the cardstock that

had been sewn to it.

One side of the larger tag is above.

The quote was torn from an old

psychology textbook.

A quote written on hand-painted paper

is on the other side of the large tag.

I made this paper while

painting with poster paints with

my grandson one day...
you can see the crayon resist
beneath the paint on the right side.

I love this quote...

Go throw some paint!

Mail Art

FISH MAIL



Postcard created from recycled cardboard

with collage over the 'printed' side.

Collage created from cotton fabric,

scraps of handmade paper and an ad,

a scrap of watercolor and ink,

stamping, hand-drawn swirls,

and the canceled postage image.

An extra fine-point Sharpie marker will

write on almost anything, including fabric.



What is Mail Art?

Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. The term mail art can refer to an individual message, the medium through which it is sent, or an artistic genre. Mail art is also known as postal art and is sometimes referred to as Correspondence/Mail Art (CMA).

Mail artists typically exchange ephemera in the form of illustrated letters, zines, rubber stamped, decorated or illustrated envelopes, artist trading cards, postcards, artistamps, faux postage, mail-interviews, naked mail, friendship books, decos, and three-dimensional objects.

An amorphous international mail art network, involving thousands of participants in over fifty countries, evolved between the 1950s and the 1990s. It was influenced by other movements, including Dada and Fluxus.

One theme in mail art is that of commerce-free exchange; early mail art was, in part, a snub of gallery art, juried shows, and exclusivity in art. A saying in the mail art movement is "senders receive", meaning that one must not expect mail art to be sent to oneself unless one is also actively participating in the movement.

Excerpted from Wikipedia on-line article.

MAKE (AND SEND) SOME MAIL ART TODAY!

Art Journal

New page in the watercolor journal. Watercolor background, scraps of painted paper, fabric, Sharpie drawings and colored marker. The face, hands and tree are drawn in crayon, then tempera paint applied over them, creating a 'resist,' then torn from the original paper and collaged onto this page. Can you meet yourself coming and going?!

Poetry on Paper

Collage on recycled cardboard (from a cereal box) painted with craft acrylic paints and collaged with scraps of painted papers and scrapbook papers. My favorite Sharpie extra-fine point
markers will not write on this paint, so I used a Zig Memory System marker that is a scrapbook product. It writes and draws smoothly but is not waterproof, so it must be used at the end of
the process, after all water media has dried. I also shaded some of the edge decoration with chalk pastel.

THANK YOU to Elizabeth of the Altered Book Lover blog for featuring me on her website! I am honored to be her friend and fellow artist. Elizabeth does a very informative and inspiring blog, where you can follow her experiments, challenges, artistic creations and endeavors in mixed media. The very first "swap" I participated in was hosted by Elizabeth, and she made it so fun and enjoyable! Welcome to all who are visiting from Elizabeth's site, and those who haven't met her yet, stop by for her celebration of Earth Day.

Come Sail Away...

Collage and watercolor in my watercolor Art Journal. (Teesha Moore's amazing 16 page journal from one sheet of paper) The top image is a flap that unfolds, and is connected with the bottom image as one spread. Created using watercolors, hand-painted papers, scrapbook papers, stickers, copies of my Moo cards, white gel pen and Pigma Micron marker. I wanted to try something different from the "border around the outside & writing in the middle" lay-out...