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 

ICAD Week Three Done!

Hello friends,!

Well, here's the next week of index card art. How quickly these first three weeks have gone by.  This year, I'm cheating a little bit. I'm not actually using index cards, but instead I bought a small book of not brilliant quality sketch paper. As far as the quality goes, it's not far off the poor quality of an index card. It's just that this is bound in a spiral book.  It contains 70 pages so that's enough to give me more than one page per day for the 61 days. And at the end of it, I'll have a small, neatly bound book of my artwork. So much more tidy than just a bunch of loose index cards that very often get separated out. And then I can't find them.

so here's the next round up.

 

Day 16/61  Alphabet

Day 17/61 Sunflower

Day 18/61  Xylophone

Day 19/61 Violet

Day 20/61 Tranquility

Day 21/61  Postage Stamp

Day 22/61  Unexpected

Day 23/61 Enchanted Forest

Until next time

Stay safe, stay well

Debbie xx

It's Addictive

 Hello Friends!

Thank you for your kind comments on my previous entry.  I have not replied individually as I'm having a few issues with the laptop.  Consequently, I'm forced into minimising my activity on line.  Thank you, also, for your support over my health issues.  Our NHS is a wonderful thing, but when it lets you down it generally does so with a bang.  I am still waiting.

So without further ado, here are my tangles and ICAD's for the first week.

This first tile is not part of ICAD, but create as part of an online tuition hosted by Sandra Rushton of Sanntangle.

As is this second tile, which I confess was torturously difficult, especially at 2:00 a.m. when sleep was the enemy.  However, once it fell into place I understood it!

Day 1/61 Prompt "Sapling"

Day 2/61 Prompt "Polka Dots"

Day 3/61 prompt "map" I went off prompt with a compass rose, a loosely connected subject.

Day 4/61 prompt "espresso"

Day 5/61 "zebra or stripes"

So, my lovely friends, this wraps up the first week.  I'll be updating every Monday, so I do hope you'll drop by and let me know which, if any, you like.

Here are a few more photos from the garden.  We have not had rain now for a month.  Top to bottom: Papaver Orientalis "Coral Sea", Pink Valerian, Teasel, Native Mullein, and finally Lavender.

Every one of those plants will make the pollinating insects very happy indeed.  Some will provide valuable seeds in the winter for foraging garden birds.

It looks as if there will be a fine crop of long stemmed lavender, and I hope to make a good collection of Lavender Wands this Summer.

Until next time

Stay safe, stay well

Debbie xo

ICAD part six

Hello friends

You may be relieved to learn that this is the last instalment of index card art for this year. It's taken me awhile to share it all because I've been so busy with all the other art I've been creating.

I've put three photos. For this first image, because the paint is so shimmery, it just doesn't come across with a straight facing forward photo and I really wanted to try and show you the proper full effect of the shimmer.

The rest of these photos are all mixed media.

The first two are working dry watercolour crayons onto a wet background and letting it all bleed out.

The rest are all mixed media collage. Mostly based around one large scrap of tissue paper, which I managed to stretch over almost all of the cards. 

Many of you know that I take part in this index card art challenge every year. However, this year has been very different. There was no big index card art group on Facebook. However. I joined with a very small number of fellow artists. And we shared our work within our small group, which was very nurturing and supportive. We've helped each other along the way to learn and explore new techniques and new ways of creativity. It's been great fun, and we've stayed together since.

Show my friends that concludes index card out for 2022. Thank you for looking at the mall and thank you for your kind comments and support.

Until next time 

Stay safe. Stay well.

Debbie.

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