365 Somethings #98-104

"he's perfectly framed"

so many potential meanings here!

hand painted papers, cardstock, found text

"these fleeting magazines"

hand painted papers, cardstock, found text, fabric, ad

"had to think"

hand painted papers, cardstock, found text, fabric, ad, ticket stub

"ponders hard work"

hand painted papers, cardstock, found text, accounting paper, japanese paper, fabric

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Link Love {a Mission}

Please join me in the campaign to give virtual hugs to our fellow creative bloggers. Link to blogs that you love to read, link to blogs that you've just discovered, link to blogs that are growing but not yet well known. 

I'm on a mission to revive link love! Get involved! Commit to posting a set of 5 or more links once each week for the month of April. Grab a LINK LOVE badge and learn more about my goal.

If you are participating in SHARE the LINK LOVE, please add a link to your blog post in the Mister Linky below. 

I am committed to sharing links at Daisy Yellow and I hope that you will get in on the action and do a link round-up on your blog too. This was one of my favorite things to do when I started blogging and it has fallen out of fashion. Together we can bring it back! 

Here's my post from last week. We had 31 link lovers. 32 including me!

1. Marit is taking intensive virtual road trips.
2. If Kate's deluxe doodles were candy I would eat them.
3. Lovely thoughts on ugly pages from Orly Avineri. 
4. Emily Lagore's postcards for Hanna's swap are high contrast mandala designs, beautifully done.
5. Wendy is stitching + painting funky collages.
6. Anika shares her patterns for the month of February. I joined Anika's challenge in December and it really sparked mad waves of creativity.
7. Dawn created a simply elegant mandala from one eraser stamp, accompanied by wise words.

Cut + Paste Therapy #4

Drawing in Dawn's new journal-book Art Doodle Love, with extra stuff lovingly glued to the pages! I was curious to see how the pages would handle collage {used matte medium, no problem} and wanted to play around mixing drawing with collage. I used a bunch of different markers, colored pencil, gellyrolls, japanese washi papers, postage stamps, magazine clippings, maps. This technically counts for the glue book challenge at Artsyville. But I almost didn't indulge in cut + paste therapy in this week because I was immersed in sewing my auction project for our school {which is happily sitting at the framing store}, stressing out, having headaches and wierd dreams.

I like the way that Hanna describes this process - making your own magazines!

See the earlier pages for Aimee's gluebook challenge, go to Cut + Paste Therapy #1 and Cut + Paste Therapy #2 + Therapy #3 + Therapy #5.

I'm on a mission to revive link love! Get involved! Commit to posting a set of 5 or more links once each week for the month of April. Grab a LINK LOVE badge and learn more about my goal. My next post is Friday.

Swimming Pools + Traffic Cones

The other night I had the strangest dream about moving to a new house in Seattle. As we unpacked we realized things about the house like the fact that it had no backyard. In the front yard, down a muddy hill, all of the houses had swimming pools covered by connecting stone pergolas. Our house had a tiny kitchen like you'd find in a hotel room with a cobwebbed ironing board in the closet. I kept hating the house more and regretting the move. A neighbor guy knocked at the door and started ranting and screaming at me about these plastic traffic cones on the street that had scratched his car and threatened to sue us if we left any more traffic cones on the street. I went outside and screamed at him to get the hell away from our house. Then there was a PTA/mom's group outside at the pool discussing the traffic cone situation, why the cones were absolutely necessary to warn people about the water runoff at the edge of our yard. Right next to the traffic cones someone had a pretty little cat feeding area with two bowls and a flower arrangement. All I wanted to do was move again.

I finished the art project for our school fundraiser, and I'll write a post about it when I can share the details in late April. It's a relief but not as much as I thought, because now I'm worried that the auction will be a flop. It was a completely different experience attempting to create something for a purpose rather than just for the fun of it. Much more stressful.

365 Somethings #91-97

Loving the process of making little stitched collages.

Exploring themes with thin strips, lots of out of control magenta stitching. Focusing on hand-painted papers.

 

"become"

Vertical strips. Playing with possibilities.

hand painted papers {two techniques - smashed acrylics and handmade gelatin prints}, found text

"wonderful flips"

Horizontal strips, layered.

hand painted papers - smashed acrylics}, found text

"reality unreal"

hand painted papers - smashed acrylics and handmade gelatin prints, found text

"suffers from familiar"

hand painted papers - smashed acrylics and handmade gelatin prints, found text

 

"evolve. change"

handmade gelatin prints, found text

"make matters powerful"

hand painted papers, cardstock, japanese wrapping paper, japanese washi paper, found text, fabric

 

"dipping through"

hand painted papers, DMA entry tag, found text, misc. ephemera

All of the collages are stitched 3x5" cards.

Find my 365 somethings posts at this link.

The Search For Fun

 

I'm on a mission to revive link love! Get involved! Commit to posting a set of 5 or more links once each week for the month of April. Grab a LINK LOVE badge and learn more about my goal.

If you are participating in SHARE the LINK LOVE, please add a link to your blog post in the Mister Linky below. 

I am committed to sharing links at Daisy Yellow and I hope that you will get in on the action and do a link round-up on your blog too. This was one of my favorite things to do when I started blogging and it has fallen out of fashion. Together we can bring it back! The more folks we get involved, the more LINK LOVE we share. It's free, it's happy! They say that everything comes back in style. Maybe even pastel orange countertops.

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Hanna shows us that Every Artist Needs a Scrap Notebook.

Just discovered Gretchen Miller's blog and the wonderful sense of community and sharing. Lots of good ideas and artsy goodness. Gretchen is doing a 365 project called Revo'lution Art Bits and shares these words about her project, " I feel like each revo’lution bit I create  is an artful seed of effort to foster stillness, trust, service, simplicity, honor, and light into my actions and awareness, as well as into my life for growth, harvesting, and sharing with others." What magical words!

At Lettering vs Calligraphy, a daily battle to create the same letter in two different ways. I love the fresh takes on the letter forms.

Major graphical map love and logo love at Raul Gomez Estudio.

At Tracey Grady, What Graphic Design Isn't.

Quinn invents an alphabet, looking at different alphabets and found symbols for clues.

Diana Trout shares her journaling kit in a little video at her blog.

Danielle LaPorte shares 11 Pointers on Good Digital Manners. 

Doodles + Doodles + Doodles

Drawing in Dawn's new journal-book Art Doodle Love. The book is basically a series of painted backgrounds with a variety of writing and drawing prompts to guide your doodles. I used all sorts of materials on the page, from gellyrolls to paint pens to pitt pens to slicci pens to colored pencils to sharpie paint markers and more that I can't remember. Having fun is my only goal! I should have taken a "before" shot but this is page 56-57 of the book. 

 

On my doodle pages, I like to add whatever words pop into my mind. The word JUXTAPOSITION {above} is just a fun word, isn't it? The word CREATE is always going through my mind. The word EQUALITY {below} is in support of the freedom to marry your love. The word DRAGONS is a word donated by my younger daughter when I asked her for a 7-letter word for the little boxes {below}.

And here's the "Please Return to..." page. 

Lots of things going on, mostly good!

Stitching a huge paper art project for our school fundraiser {technically already late}, working on Zine #8 {link to Zine #7}, making progress on my 365 tiny collages, responding to questions and admiring the beautiful student work in my watercolor workshop at 21 Secrets, listening to my kids talk about The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books, investing in some new watercolor brushes and more watercolor tubes.

In little gaps of time at carpool, late at night, at the kids' dentist, I've been drawing on the pages of Dawn's new journal-book {yes, that's the idea, to draw in the book} Art Doodle Love.

And on and on it goes. Watching my older daughter learn how to knit, opening our mailbox to find postcards from Hanna's swap {here are the postcards that I sent out}, mailing out mail art postcards, cut + paste sessions...

And the flip side... last night an astute artist let me know that the audio in one of my 21 Secrets videos was messed up! Apparently the parts that I had muted were un-muted. And parts that I'd dubbed were quiet. My deep dark secret is out - we watch "I Love Lucy" marathons. I double checked the iMovie file and I'd done it all correctly, it just was a wierd bug! So I had to redo the entire video with the original movie files. I'm also quite adept at procrastinating on our taxes and avoiding endless laundry... blaming it on my wicked headache. 

And PLEASE get involved in my retro blogging MISSION to Share the Link Love on your blog.

Visiting a Co-Op Garden

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Share the Link Love: A Mission

You are invited to join me in a mission in April and May!

The mission is to share links in blog posts every week in April.

{Editor's Note: It can be any day of the week. My links and the Linky Love will go up each Friday.}

FIVE LINKS ➼ ➼ FOUR POSTS

Why link from your blog? It's more personal than tweeting, posting on facebook or pinning. In the creative version of rock-paper-scissors, postcards beat texts... and monoprints beat photocopies... right?

Link. Write something nice. Spread happiness. 

I believe that linking will inspire community. Let's go retro and spread the love. They say that everything comes back in style. Maybe even pastel orange countertops.

PLEASE HELP BY TWEETING, LINKING, POSTING ON FACEBOOK, TO GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT THE MISSION! Yes, tweeting so that we can link more. That's life!

I'll post my Link-Love Round-Ups every Friday in April and May! Just pop in and add your link to the round-up.

{Editorial note: Please link with love, meaning link to someone's site but DO NOT copy/paste my work or other people's work to your site without permission. That is not the intent of the mission.}

The Plan: Publish posts one time each week in April and May {originally just April, but with great success, we are going for May too!} with at least 5 links to stuff you like on other blogs. Typography, doodling, a zentangle, a knitting tutorial, photography, etc. Please link your blog post to Daisy Yellow to spread the word far and wide about our mission.

You have my permission to use any of these badges on your blog to spread the word. They remind me of pastel orange countertops!

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To get a badge, right click on the image and save to your computer. Then upload to your blog and link to this post: http://daisyyellowart.com/vividlife/share-the-link-love.html

This is a win-win-win-win-win! You post links to other people's blogs that you like. They get visitors. You share happiness. 
Pop back here on Friday to add your link to the Mister Linky.

Cut + Paste Therapy #3

The cheapest therapy on earth is to sit + cut + paste. "I Love Lucy" on the TV in the background is a nice touch. Thank you Aimee of Artsyville for this glue book challenge! These pages have been so much fun to do. I like hunting through my magazines and ephemera and baskets of papers for treasures. A treasure hunt.

Pages from my 8 1/4 x 11 3/4" Clairefontaine Carnet de Voyage. 

The 6th pair of pages from the cut + paste journal. I started this with the rainbow on the right {neocolors on an index card} and decided to go with a bright cheerful theme, and searched for reds, pinks and oranges in my stack of magazines and collage-gear. On this page you'll find images from Japanese and Italian magazines, Japanese wrapping paper, Japanese washi paper, cuttings from the gelatin prints I made, found words, hand painted papers, tissue paper, tea bag envelope.

 

Pair #7

Clippings from Japanese and Italian magazines, Japanese wrapping paper, Japanese washi paper, cuttings from the gelatin prints I made, found words, hand painted papers, tissue paper, tea bag envelope, postage stamps. Marks with colored pencils, as they were handy.

 

Pair #8

More stuff from Japanese and Italian magazines, cuttings from the gelatin prints I made, found words, hand painted papers, ticket stubs, forms, vintage papers, postage stamp, doodles, moo card of a photo I took, washi tape... 

So visually energizing. 

See the earlier pages from this journal in Cut + Paste Therapy #1 and Cut + Paste Therapy #2.

Each Tuesday, a fresh 6-word prompt called Prompt6ix! Here's today's Prompt6ix.