Sunday Postcard Art: Rise and Shine

 This week at Sunday Postcard Art, the theme is "Rise and Shine."  Here's my artwork:

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Tag Tuesday: Something New

The challenge this time at Tag Tuesday is "Something New."  So here's a young birthday boy, with something new:  his new best friend, a puppy!

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Digital Whisper: LAURA INGLES WILDER

 The theme this time at Digital Whisper is Laura Ingles Wilder.  Here is my challenge artwork:

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Our Midweek Muse: Steampunk

The challenge this week at Our Midweek Muse is Steampunk, my all-time favorite theme.  I love creating steampunk art!  Here's mine:

I also have a woman working in her steampunk kitchen.  Outside the window is a field with some of her steampunk horses running past. 

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Postcard Art: Snow Queen

The prompt for this week's challenge at Postcard Art is "Snow Queen."  This one was fun to make! 

(Honestly, they are all fun to make. 😊)

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Digital Whisper: Snow

The theme this time at Digital Whisper is Snow.  Here's my artwork:

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Midweek Muse: Word for January

The challenge prompt this time for Midweek Muse is "Word for Januay."   Here's mine: Ember

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Art Journal Journey - It's on the Calendar

 The challenge this time at Art Journal Journey is "It's on the Calendar."   Here's mine:

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Digital Whisper: Bells

 The theme this week at Digital Whisper is Bells.  Here's my artwork:

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Our Midweek Muse: Dragons

The Challenge this week at Our Midweek Muse is Dragons.  Here's my Dragon:

Father and son are teaching their pet dragon how to skateboard.  He loves it!  And Charlie is having a blast being chased by the skateboarders.  (Charlie is my dog.) 

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Tag Tuesday: Wings

 Our Challenge this time for Tag Tuesday is Wings.  Here's my tag:

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Try it on Tuesday: Santa Claus is Coming to Town

The challenge theme at Try it on Tuesday this time is Santa Claus is Coming to Town!  Here's mine:

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Digital Whisper: Christmas Tree

 This week's theme at Digital Whisper is Christmas Tree.

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Our Midweek Muse - Transport

Our Midweek Muse has as its latest Challenge, Transport.  Here's mine:

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Art Journal Journey: Above us only sky

 Art Journal Journey - the prompt challenge this time is Above us only sky.

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Sunday Postcard Art: Christmas/ Yule/ Anything Goes

Sunday Postcard Art: The challenge this week is Christmas/ Yule/ Anything Goes.

 I created a Merry Christmas Reindeer Postcard:

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to you!

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11. Art is Magic: Make Create Express 23-24

 Creative Spirit Scroll with Lisa Agaran

This scroll is 3" tall and 20" long.  When it's rolled up, these are the three sides that show:

The scroll unfurled showing the front:

and the back:

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 Empty Bowls Art Journal with Pamela Vosseller

This project included making the decorative papers, the cover, and the pages that are in the journal.  The closure is made from a wooden spoon.  Its handle fits through a paper loop attached to the cover paper before it's glued down.

This is the front cover, which was made by crumpling deli paper, and pressing it onto a gel plate with different acrylic paint colors, letting it dry, and then gluing it onto the cut backing.  The front and back covers were made the same way, but from different pulls off the gel plate, so they are a bit different:

The pages are made by cutting the decorative papers to shape and gluing them onto handmade paper from India, and adding marks, using black and white pens and other colors for mark making.  Then the paper is glued onto larger black cardstock:

And this is the back:

I used a thin red string to wrap around the book and tie it off by hooking it under the spoon.

This project was one of my favorites and took the longest of the classes I've taken so far in Make Create Express 23-24.  I had to order the black cardstock and the handmade paper from India.  When everything was ready, all the steps took a while, and I took my time to get things right or re-do them if the first pass didn't work out.  

This kind of handmade artwork is so much fun to do, especially since mistakes are expected and add to the preciousness of the finished piece.  

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Bloom with Saskia van Drunen

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 Happy Hound, Free Creative Weekend with Emma Petitt

I created another art piece from this class for a friend of mine who has a cat.  This is Henry, who loves the little foster kittens his mom, Kim, brings home for him to take care of.  Isn't he gorgeous?

Henry is the Cover Cat on a little booklet I made with various papers.  He's pure black (and white), and the undercolors are peeking through his beautiful black coat.  

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Expressive Creatures, Mini Lesson by Galia Alena

This was my sketch that I made on the back of an envelope, to see if it was something I wanted to do.  I actually ended up loving this little creature more than the painting I did in my art journal.  

And here's my creature that I did in the journal:

These were actually fun to do.  I never draw faces, so this was something really new for me and I think with some practice I might do okay with faces.  Especially quirky faces, which is probably what I'd enjoy the most.

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 Fractured Portrait:  Mini Lesson with Galia Alena

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There is Never a Shortage with Fonda Clark Haight, Week 5 of 52

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Spring Blooms Collage with Francisca Nunes, Week 4 of 52

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 Nature Mandala with Consie Sindet:  Week 3 of 52

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 Prayer Flags with Rakefet Hadar, Week 2 of 52

Paper:

Various cloth pieces and ephemera:

Sari pieces: 

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  A Still Life of Colours with Kim Dellow, Week 1 of 52

Hot Colours - Tag Tuesday

The Challenge for this two-week period on Tag Tuesday is "Hot Colours."  That goes right along with the weather we're having right now in the high desert - HOT.  

I actually love all these colors, they are happy and expressive and fun to use.  

As usual, my artwork is crowded and busy - I just can't seem to stop, you know?  😁

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Greyscale - Sunday Postcard Art

The Challenge this week at Sunday Postcard Art is "Greyscale."  

I've not been doing much arting lately, and I'm missing it!  This looked interesting to me, so I decided to give it a try.  I recently heard this quote, and decided to build my greyscale artwork around it, so I'd have something to remember it.  I do that a lot when I hear or read things I want to remember - make a graphic with the saying and save the artwork.

So, here it is - I took a little artistic license and added some color to the greyscale:

It makes so much sense, I'd never seen this quote before or even thought about the concept. I told a teenager about it, and he wasn't sure it was true. 

I think that, only as we get older, would this make sense. A young person doesn't have a backward glance to see how and why things really happened sometimes. So it's probably a matter of perspective, and at my age, it makes complete sense, but an 18-year-old doesn't have that same perspective.  

Interesting, right?

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