Art Every Day Month – Catch Up

I have gotten a little behind on posting, so I am just going to show you what I have been working on for the past 5 days without a lot of commentary. It has been a week of experimentation and trying new techniques, and I am having fun with all of it.

I spent a couple of days creating some ATC’s (Artist Trading Cards), which are the same as ACEO’s (Art Cards, Editions, and Originals) basically in that they are all 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches – the same size as other trading cards. The difference is that ATC’s are traded rather than sold. I had joined a local “Meet-Up” group called Pittsburgh Artist Trading Card group, and we were getting together this week for a “Craft Along”, so I wanted to have a few more to bring with me. It was a lot of fun, and we traded cards at the beginning our our afternoon, and again after we had made some new ones. These are the ones I made before the meeting, some of which I have already traded. I made 3 more on Sunday, and I will show you two of them the next time I post, as I forgot to photograph them today. The third one has already been traded and I didn’t get a chance to photograph it before it was gone. Of course I also received some wonderful ones in exchange!

       

Above and below are journal pages I prepared in the past few days after watching some fascinating videos made by Teesha Moore on her blog, showing how she makes her wonderful mixed media artwork and books. I loved the process and am creating some pages for myself following her techniques. We’ll see what they turn out like. I love the spontaneous, intuitive manner in which they are made! The photos on the left show just the background painted with either watercolor or a wash of acrylic paint, mixed with a thin layer of gesso to give the pages some body, since I am not using a watercolor paper journal. The right photos show the pages after I have added borders made from collaged strips of paper from magazines that had interesting patterns and colors.

I am working on 3 sets of pages at once – the ones above and these pages below:

     

    

Who knows how they will end up eventually? It will be interesting to see how they develop!

Today I played with a new set of wax pastels that are water soluble. When you brush over them on paper with water, they begin to look like watercolor. I didn’t have much time, but I wanted to capture some fall leaves with them and this was the result:

So, now I am caught up and hopefully can continue with 1 picture posted a day from now on.

Until tomorrow -

Arlene

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