whats on my desk wednesday and the last index card

I moved my desk outside to the deck to work on some things.  I wanted to enjoy the summer weather while it was still here.lclick on the picture to make it bigger

Painting of my junk journal

working on some postcards

The last of my index cards

Haircut day

As you can see this index card is timely, I am off today to get a haircut, meet a friend for coffee (diet coke), and then home to clean up.  It seems after I watch Hoarders which was on last night

I am always in the mood to clean up the house and throw things out (lol).

goodmail, index card and a little talk

The two postcards above came a few days ago from two talented artists.  One big one with the birds and all the color are from Janet http://jkbees.blogspot.com/ the smaller one is also beautiful is a stiched collage done by Andria from http://andria-drawingnear.blogspot.com/ I love both of these, and I love getting

mail so if anyone ever wants to trade just let me know.

special mail, so if anyone ever wants to trade just let me know\

Well only two more days left of index cards,

Ideas Percolating

This is a page from my idea book, or its the general all things book I keep by my side and everything goes in it.  Anyway it started with the leaves, then the color, then I decided to hide the birds in it.  Now remember this is just an idea, something I will keep in the book and think about, and when i decide what it should be maybe a collage maybe a painting.  This helps me when I don't have any ideas (art wise) .

How do you get your ideas when you are stumped?

fridge art, doodles, and index card (three for the price of 1)

The above doodle is what I call fridge art, I had a paper bag, that I was going to recyle, and I thought I would just doodle on it, and then I used water color and pan pastel, and here is my version of fridge art, it will stay on the fridge till I get sick of it and go into the recycle.

Now this lined book I always have by where I sit and use my laptop, I write good websites, or tips I want to rememeber, I am always trying out ideas, and colors, and making lists.

And this is my index card for the day, only three more to go, we dont have to post on Sunday
.  So that is it for Saturday, today we are waiting for family to come, they are taking our freezer off our hands, we dont need it anymore, just for the two of us, we wanted someone who needed one to have it.

Oil Country

The first index card, is a bit of map where I live.  It looks like we live in the boonies, not true

we live in a really cool city, where we have all 4 seasons and lots to do.  But we do have lots of

farming and I main revenue sorce is Oil, we have lots of it, almost or more than the

rich oil companies in arabian countries, we also have the oil sands.  Which has

been untapped.



One thing we dont have where I live is great lakes, and great fish.  We do have fish but no

lobster, shrimp etc, thats more down east and more west.  There a little lesson

on where I live.  Whats great about where you live?

30 day challenge

well only 5 days left of the index challenge, mixed feelings.  I liked doing them, but I am tired of posting every day, as you can tell i have missed a few days.  my life is not exciting, so what do I talk about, the mudane that is my life.  I dont think so, but today I am going to talk about a little challenge that I am going to do for me.  I just read a blog (see sidebar) 100 days of no junk food, she went a little further and ate no processed foods, organics etc.  But I am going to start small, 30 days of no junk food (except diet coke I cannot give that up) and I am going to try not to eat processed foods, hubby is going to do it to, because if he doesnt he fends for himself.  I talk tough but really I am not.  So starting today, no pita chips, no hotdogs, no popcorn at the movies unless I make it myself, on the stove, not in the microwave etc.  So I will let you know how it goes

Silent Wed

Tuesday

Well yes today is tuesday and whats on my agenda

1.  went for long walk at dog park

2.  husband out of town

3.  no to much going on here

4.  Watching movies, making art, eating what I want,

no housework being done, some deck sitting, a little napping

whats doing on your Tuesday

3MONTHS OF INDEX CARDS

YEP thats what 3months of index cards look like.

I am loving the look, I have them in an index card

holder and have them in the family room, so

everyone can thumb through them and have a look.

And todays index card is below.

10 more days

only 10 more days of the 3month index challenge

I loved it, and I am so proud of myself, I did not miss one day of creating

it was really good for me, to hunker down and create, little miniature art pieces, that

is the way I looked at the challenge.  All I created was not gold, but I did it.  So now I am

up for another challenge for me to take on, I am thinking.

lee

Dream

neck feeling better

tourture getting massages but helps

pick up new glasses today

get rid of wasp nest under porch

leftover friday for dinner

weather beautiful all weekend

ikea, bought new frame for art, scarf holder, and potatoe scrubber

what are you up to today

I have been MIA

I know I have been MIA for a couple of days, have been dealing with my neck.  You know sometimes you wake up your neck is sore.  Well mine is really sore, and my shoulder that whole muscle, so today I am off for a neck massage to see if that helps. The first index card was made with a seed catalogue, an image of hands and apple, and some coloured paper.  This one is titled "Going Green"

The Flight of the Bumble Bee

Another index card, I dont like bugs of any kind, so i decided to put one on a index card, goes with summer. Today I am on the hunt for white pens, the perfect summer drink, and some art



Started to carve it, this is the size

it ended up at

And this is what it looks like

How I made a postcard

I started out with my painted paper, torn and pasted on a postcard

Decided it was not torn enough, so tore more off.

I then used some scrapbook paper I had, I tore it as well, so this kinda

decided my theme, birds egg a bird

The I used some really light paper, as I envisioned it flowing in the wind, only glued from the top

So far it was not going so great, I did not like the way the tracing paper looked

I decided then to draw a heart and a bird half on the tracing paper and some on the scrapbook paper

I then decided to use Pan Pastels, by this stage I hated everything about this postcard

and the next step would have been the garbage, I decided to try one more thing. The bird

looked like he had not had a good meal in days.

I took off the tracing paper, and redid the bird and the heart

in white pen, but it still looked flat

Next step, I used copic markers for the heart and part of the bird, part of the painted paper I used

getting better but still not great

So for the final step, I did some highlighting, and some shadingadded a word, I could have used a stencil, but I liketo try and use my printing

Truthfully I am not to satisfied with this finished product, but it does look better in person.

So If you like this, and would like to have it, leave me a comment,the first comment gets it.

If you don't like it,, it's okay, tell what I should have done or could have added more.

I tend to not add enough stuff maybe, I like clean lines.

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Saturday Chores

 Just a page in my journal I made awhile ago,

Today was getting new glasses,

cleaning the garage with hubby

finishing up a postcard

deciding if the postcard was okay to send (always second thoughts)

taking devil dog for a walk at the dog park

having a piece of carrot cake, my wonderful neighbour made who gave me some just because

having a bbq tonight, to hot to turn the stove on, sometimes its to hot to bbq

making a salad of whatever is in the fridge

and just enjoying  beautiful Saturday

What did you do today.

My index card I made is about my camera, I have finally decided how to use it correctly and have been reading the book.  Only had it a couple of years?

A Love Fest

love that today is hot, air is on

love this icad card not because I created it, but the quote

love that the studio is almost spick and span

love that the things I call stuff I don't need ,another artist who needs it will get it

love that I am in the paper swap and my partner is from Poland

love that you read my blog

love that I have a blog, because many times I have wanted to stop

love that I have many good friends who I have met on my blog

love that I am going to Phoenix again this year with my good friends

love that you took the time to read this

What do you love , lets have a love fest

I am a garbage picker

Awhile ago while checking the mail, i spied this the buzz thing

in the garbage, so of course what does any artist do but

pick it out of the garbage, dust it off and use in her art. 

Now I am really not cross eyed, but the eyes on this portrait look like I am, in fact I don't even resemble this woman, but I keep trying. I am also making these on index cards, for the 31 days of portraits. I am keeping myself busy with arty projects this summer, still working away on my e classes.

whats on my desk wednesday and a index card

 Late posting today, I have been cleaning.  This is what my desk looked like before I started the cleaning of the studio.  I have been busy working, on  e classes, index cards, portraits.Plus nice weather .

So below is a 2fr (an index card and a portrait ) saved myself some time.  Hope you enjoy today short and sweet.

Experimenting

My usual index card

I have been playing around with collage elements lately

and I did  one (below) but I am not happy with it. It looks

to nicey nice. I have done a few on index cards that I like,

so more practice needed. 

Maybe I would be good in advertising this one looks like a sale

flyer (lol)

envelope art and of course an index card

this was an envelope that I had on the table with my

art supplies, my hubby and I were talking finances

and I was writing on the back of it.  After we

finished I thought I will just do some abstract art on it,

because i had some paint markers that were almost

done, and then I saw some figures in the abstract

and here is how it ended up.

now the index card, is just a doodle that I did awhile ago

and thats it for today