Daily Paper Prompt #7: Leftovers

 

3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics, diluted

The Daily Paper Prompt today is to use the leftover paint from an art journal page or painting to create abstract art. I created these fun index cards as I sort of multi-tasked. I was painting a canvas as part of Flora's workshop, and the paints ran down the canvas onto a plastic dropcloth. Spying the stack of index cards nearby, I pressed the index cards onto the blobs of diluted paint. They were very watery, so they created a translucent effect. So you can grab the drips of another project, press your paper onto a wet journal page, clean your brush or brayer on a new page and use that for journal fodder on a future page. It's a never-ending circle of paint!

Please pop back and add a link to your artwork for this prompt. You can link directly to a photo at flickr or to a blog post {links to the home page of your blog will be deleted}.

Find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts

What's the Daily Paper Prompt? 

Daily Paper Prompt #6: Certification

 

3x5" index card, slicci pens

This is my official doodle certificate. I am 100% certain that you don't have to go to a workshop, take a class, be certified by some Very Important Institution or any of that fluff stuff to doodle well. Your doodles don't have to be called any fancy names. You do not need a degree in doodling, an art degree or an olympic doodling coach.

You just need a writing implement and paper.

You can really and truly just doodle.

Make yourself a certificate for something you know how to do!

Here are some ideas for certifications that you can bestow upon yourself:

Meal maker {4 different meals for 4 different family members simultaneously}.

Block letter sketcher

Disney World kid tracker.

Listener.

Ipod playlist maker.

Marathon Enya listener.

Napper.

Rainbow painter.

Long Live Free-Range Organic Doodling!

Find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts

What's the Daily Paper Prompt? 

Daily Paper Prompt #5: Linear

Draw something with mostly straight lines, as if you were using an etch-a-sketch toy. This is my 12 yr old daughter's etchy creation.

Ideas...

A mandala with a square theme.

Linear doodles.

A maze.

A grid-inspired art journal page.

Please add a link to your creative work for this prompt!

Find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts

Daily Paper Prompt #4: Flowers

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
Henry David Thoreau

3x5" index card, slicci pen, watercolors

Draw flowers in ink. Watercolor.

I've shared a quick sketch of how to draw these particular flowers. 

You could use flowers climbing the edges of your art journal page, as doodles in the blank areas, or really big flowers that you can write on!

Find inspiration here: Sunflower Kaleidoscope, Flower Inspiration, Drawing from Imagination and Photos, Drawing Inspiration from Nature...

Please add a link to your flower designs!

Find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts

Daily Paper Prompt #3: Drips

“…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
John Green

drips from the top, then drips from the side

drips from the top, then drips from the side, then one spritz with water

3x5" index cards, airbrush acrylics

Drip paint on on side of your paper, let it roll down. Drip paint on the adjacent side of the paper, let it roll down. This creates a grid. Use for an art journal background, doodle in the boxes, or jut let it be abstract art. Cut these into book marks or slice them up for your art journal collages.

To get fluid acrylics a little more fluid... so that they drip faster and farther, try fluid acrylics mixed with water. The absolute best for drippage is Golden airbrush colors. Next best is Golden airbrush medium mixed with fluid acrylics {which would be pretty darn close to airbrush acrylics, but a little less saturated}.

If you spritz with water while the paint is wet, just one little spritz, you get a tie dye effect. I also tried this technique on a manilla folder, and envelopes and it works great!

If you do the drippy prompt, add a link to your creation at your blog or to a specific photo at flickr.... you don't have to do the prompt on the right day, but please try them all!

Find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts

Daily Paper Prompt #2: Windows

“Nourish your eye and spirit with inspiring things.
They will bloom with your tending.”
SARK

Using an x-acto knife against a fabric cutting board, I cut several windows without any lines or measurement. The dots are finger painted with fluid acrylics. I put the window in front of various backgrounds so that you could see that there are lots of things you can do with windows.

Use a window on your page. You can sketch an outline of your window first, if you want, so that it goes in the right spot to highlight something behind it. Or just cut a random window and glue something behind it. On the page with the window, you could write about windows - what you see out a particular window, or maybe your window in your room when you were a child. You could cut out a picture of a window from any furniture catalog, glue it to your page and paint or doodle around it. Talk about why you are intrigued by windows. Another option is to cut the window first, and then put the stuff on the next page in the right spot!

Find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts.

Please don't forget to pop back to each DPP and add a link to your creation! There will be a link love for each prompt!!!

August Weekly Prompts 1-7

OOPS forgot to post these on August 1!

There will be one set each week, along with the DPP's.

What's the Daily Paper Prompt? 
 

Let me tell you about August.

Index-card-a-day is officially over, but I trust you to continue to make index cards if you wish. You are welcome to add your cards to the flickr group as long as you wish.

Each Wednesday I'll post have a set of 7 creative prompts. Use them literally, figuratively, realistically, drastically, minimalistically, jovially, recklessly or sarcastically. 

Each day in August I'll post a Daily Paper Prompt {explained here}. These are ideas for things you can do on paper of any size. I hope they prompt lots of experiments in your journal. 

Find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts

Daily Paper Prompt #1: Paint a Rainbow

"A Gift for You

A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is a cabinet near the front door, where your favorite meals appear, several times a day. Desserts are plentiful and calorie free. The closet is stocked with colorful robes and pajamas, and a painting in the bedroom slides aside to reveal a plasma television screen with every movie you've ever wanted to watch. A wooden mailbox at the end of the lane is filled daily with beguiling invitations to tea parties, horse-and-carriage rides, theatrical performances, and violin concerts. There is no obligation or need to respond. You sleep deeply and peacefully each night, and feel profoundly healthy. This cottage is yours to return to at any time.”
SARK

3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics, fluid acrylics

Paint the page a rainbow of colors.

Using a palette knife, a dull pencil or a pen lid, scrape a design in the paper. 

A rainbow could be a stripe of each color of the rainbow in one medium, or several intertwined.

If you wish, add a link to your blog post about DPP#1 or to a specific photo at flickr!

This is the first, but as the days go by, you'll find ALL of the prompts at this link: Daily Paper Prompts

What's the Daily Paper Prompt? 

ICAD #61: Finale | Link Love

61 cards, plus a few more I've prepared for the Daily Paper Prompts!

my 10 yr old daughter's 3x5" index card, colored pencil

my 3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics

my 12 yr old daughter's 3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics

Time to Reward Yourself!

Take your stack-o-cards outside and take a photograph in early morning or late afternoon light. Try different angles. Try to capture the depth and variety of your work.

1. Make a coffee date with a friend.
2. Collect a bunch of twigs, leaves and flowers from your garden and bring them inside for inspiration. Sketch them too!
3. Dangly earrings.
4. What store inspires you most? Walk around the store for inspiration. I like Anthropologie and Crate & Barrel.
5. Grapefruit scented bath gel.
6. An art book. Ideas at Art Journaling 101.
7. Have breakfast for dinner.
8. A bottle of india ink.
9. A moleskine journal or a wirebound strathmore drawing journal.
10. A new bottle of nail polish.

And it's time for our final link love of the index-card-a-day challenge for 2012. You know the drill! Add a link to the latest ICAD post at your blog or one of your recent cards at Flickr. I would appreciate your leaving a comment and letting me know how it all went. At some point in the last 61 days, did it get easier to create a card each day?

Starting August 1: Daily Paper Prompts {31 days of prompts for creativity on paper}

Art Journal Prompt Cards {on sale now!}

Get the Daisy Yellow Zine Issue #5

Kid ICAD #58-60

 

3x5" index card, gelly roll, sharpies

mom accidentally dripped orange paint on her card

my 12 yr old daughter's cards!

ICAD #60: Watery Drips

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions,
and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
Amelia Earhart

One. More. Day.

There will be a Linky Love tomorrow, so please, please create a celebratory card. I'll have a few ideas for rewarding yourself for finishing the challenge as well. I'm SO proud of you! 

I've finished developing the first 18 Daily Paper Prompts. I'll share one each day for the month of August. I hope you will join the fun. If you create something using the prompts, you can add it to the flickr group!

ICAD #59: Silk Scarves

 

3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics, fluid acrylics

ICAD #58: Collection

3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics

ICAD #57: Deep Blue

3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics

ICAD2: Week 9 Prompts

Read the ICAD FAQ for the rules and links to the weekly prompts.

Kid ICAD #55-56

3x5" index card, gellyrolls, sharpies

my 12 yr old daughter's card updates

ICAD #56: Cottage

3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics, fluid acrylics

ICAD #55: Cuadros | Link Love

3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics

Wednesday = Link Love!

We will have just one more link love after today, and that will be on July 31.

If you have made it to #55, I have no doubt you will finish this challenge. Please play through and join in on the Daily Paper Prompt in August. A low-tech, totally analog paper prompt each day! Just do something creative on/with paper each day. And that includes WRITING on paper. You don't even need to follow the prompt. It's just there for you as a fall-back. A cushion. A pillow. PLAN B. A back-up. A second thought. A hint. 

So please add a link to the blog post about your most recent index card. Please remember not to link to the home page or that will be deleted. You can also link to a specific index card on flickr. Pop your cards into the flickr group! 

ICAD #54: Scarlett

3x5" index card, heavy body acrylics, fluid acrylics

Kid ICAD #53-54

3x5" index card, gellyrolls, sharpies

my 12 yr old daughter's card updates