ICAD Round Up

Hello Friends

Today sees the end of the first four weeks of icad 2023.  Where has the month gone It certainly has flown by for me. I'm sure it has for you. of course, doing a small piece of art every day helps the time fly by whether I want it to or not.  It was my intention when I set out 30 days ago. to do a small piece of Art generally founded around tangling. well for the most part, I've managed to do that a couple of gone off course. However, in the last week or so I seem to have settled down very much into doing sort of mandalas. even when I use a compass and set square, I'm afraid I'm not very good at getting them perfect, like a lot of people do. Still, it's good practise to stop being such a perfectionist So maybe that's what I'm going to be learning out of icad this year.

Here are this week's pieces which round up the month of June.

24/61 "Bubble"

25/61  off prompt

26/61 off prompt

27/61 off prompt

28/61 "Asanoha pattern"

29/61  Evergreen

30/61 off prompt

31/61 

off prompt, found my old {complete} Spirograph it won't win any awards, but it sure was fun!

32/61  "Cottage"  I did a painted Log Cabin quilt pattern

Until next time

stay stay. safe well.

Debbie xx 

Index Card Art Part Five

Hello friends!

Thank you to everyone for taking the time to look at my art, especially my previous blog. The work in that has been quite different for me. I'm taking a few days off from arts at the moment. I've done over 100 days straight now since June the 1st. I've made at least one small piece, sometimes a large piece of art everyday since then.  It's quite a lot, so like I say, I'm having a few days off before the taster session for Life Book 2023 begins on the 26th of September. Mind having invested so much time in doing art the house workers let slip so I won't be having any time off, I'll be cleaning house!!

Here's another roundup of index card art. I think I've just got one more weeks worth to put in, so that'll come sometime in the next few days.

These ones come in a variety of media. I was doodling on a card and somehow came up with a basic shape which you will see is repeated throughout every one of these cards. I've taken the basic shape and worked into it with adding bits or changing the media. After all, that's what index card art is all about. Experimenting. Oh, and of course having fun!

It's surprising how you can change the look of something just by changing how you colour it in or adding a few extra bits here and there.

Until next time.

Stay safe, stay well.

Debbie xo

Index Card Art Part Four

Hello Friends!

It's been a busy week between doctor appointments and dental, so I forgot to post this week's ICAD catch up yesterday, but I'm here with it now.

First up, neurographic art using Chameleon ink pens.

more neurographic art using gouache and metallic pens

A few now using mixed media in my signature ribbons by muse 

my first piece of "flow and line" 

before getting back to more Ribbons by Muse

one random one, doodling around shapes detected in letting the paint do it's own thing

Until next time

Stay safe, stay well

Debbie xo

Index Card Art Part 2

Hello Friends!

Well, I almost forgot that I promised to do a midweek post to share the ICAD art from this year, so here it is.  I hope you'll pop back on Sunday to look at the pieces I've done for Artful August too!  Art is so therapeutic, as well as fun. 

This is another Neurographic piece, the reverse side is always interesting when alcohol ink is used.  In fact, all the cards I'm sharing today are Neurographic or variations on that theme.

The "right" side

Alcohol ink and micron pens

 

close up of above with light shining through looks like stained glass

water colour pencils, Staedtler fine liners and a water spray bottle

Acrylic inks

monochrome using grey mixed media

Gouache {gives very flat colour not easy to blend or shade} and Posca pens

Alcohol ink, Acrylic, and erasing areas using Surgical Spirit on a cotton bud

Variation of above

Well, my friends, I hope you like them.  Do you have a favourite?  I'd love to know, and why you like it.

Until next time
Stay safe, stay well

Debbie xo

Falling Behind with Everything

Hello Friends!

Yes, I'm falling behind with everything.  I think I have sciatica.  Remember I did No Mow May?  Well, June 1st I pulled out the mower and had the devil of a job to get it through the well overgrown lawn.  It was so hard I only managed about two thirds, and it took me about three times as long as normal.  On June 2nd, I woke up in pain and have been in pain ever since.  I haven't been for a walk since the end of May, and I am struggling to do simple, everyday things like cooking and washing dishes.  As they say, it is what it is, and is, with hindsight, self inflicted.  I have some morphine based pain killers, but they come with their own unwanted set of side effects.  Heigh ho!

So, I've struggled along for the month, but for the past fortnight I've chilled as best as I can, not bothered to dust or hoover, and watched Wimbledon, which I've enjoyed immensely, but have to say the crowds seem much noisier and rowdier than normal.

Being glued to Wimbledon means I have fallen behind by a few days on my ICAD, but if I'm late finishing, I'm late finishing. 

Five weeks down, three to go.

32/61

How could I not draw a pumpkin?  I am really eager to do this one on proper paper soon.  Water colour and ink.

33/61 I often revisit this shape and experiment with it.  Mixed media

34/61 a and b.  A stylised doodle.  Sometimes alcohol ink soaks through to make an interesting effect on the reverse.  I prefer the reverse.  What about you?

35/61  Imaginary doorway. Mixed media

As to the garden, I've forced myself to push the mower around once during June after that post No Mow May mow, and will try to do it again this week before the garden waste collection on Thursday.

However, the flowers continue to give their best, despite the neglect.  I really must do some dead heading soon.

The Crocosmia Lucifer is coming into it's own now.  I know it's not well loved, but I like it a lot, and it brings heat and colour to an otherwise very green corner.

Sorry the photos aren't brilliant, it's not easy hobbling on a stick and juggling a camera while in pain.

Another indulgence is watching reruns of Downton Abbey, currently on every evening from Monday to Friday, from the very beginning.  Will I ever tire of it?

I had some eggs to use up, so made this rich, dark, moist chocolate loaf style cake. I am experimenting using Pyrex dishes instead of tins at the moment.  It was very good, and this afternoon it's time to fill the cake tin again, so I'm going to bake Mary Berry's Almond and Chocolate cake from her Baking Bible, which is my favourite cake and baking book ever.

Bon Appetit!  This was delicious with syrupy sliced strawberries!

Thank you to everyone who has commented lately, I've read every comment and kind word.  Hope you are still able to follow now that Blogger has made yet more changes.  It's almost as if they don't want us any longer.

Until next time

Stay safe, stay well!