ART on Friday

This week I've continued with the A to Z April Challenge - creating art tags with affirmations every day.
Here are a few of my favourites:

Art TaGS

Besides the daily art tags I've been creating for the A to Z challenge, I also created another tag for the ABC Wednesday challenge - which was M.

Colour Me Positive

This week's theme at LuLu Art  is happiness and the quote by Buddha is perfect. The additional challenge was to include drips of paint. I used the cut end of celery to make the flowers.

ATCs

This week I worked on another APC swap - using used stamps and quotes.

52 Card Pick Up
This week the theme was gift. This quote by Bill Keane was perfect.

Faces
I did a quick sketch of a face this morning.

Photography
The saddest photo I took was this week of the abandoned nest on our porch - after 2 nights with no mother and below freezing weather:

My hand shook when I realized there were three eggs. I will miss those baby birds.


Linking also with:

Paint Party Friday

Express Your Creativity

Show Your Face

ART on Friday

Friday has arrived once again - and with it a brand new month.

Colour Me Positive

This week the challenge at LuLu Art focuses on hope. Three quotes appealed to me so I included them all in my journal spread. The additional challenge was to use glitter!

Art Tags

I have started a new daily challenge - A to Z April Challenge and I am focusing on affirmations, with art cards. Here are the first 3 for A.

A is for ACT

I also created a tag for ABC Wednesday - L is for lines.

52 Card Pick Up

I was a week behind with this facebook challenge - making cards for "Magic" and "Perfect".

APCs

I created another set of APCs for a swap - this time with the  theme famous men, using a used stamp.

Faces

This week I only created one - a quick sketch.

Photography

The robins have returned to the nest after a week away - must be Apr. 1st move in date!

And the first flower!

Loved the texture of peeling paint in a basement window.

Linking also with:

Paint Party Friday

Express Your Creativity

Show Your Face

Inspire Me Monday

Creative Every Day

ART on Friday

March came in like a lion - hopefully it will go out like a lamb. We got over 6" of snow and since I am the designated snowblower, I was out for a bit on Wednesday.

Now we are going to have a few days of plus weather next week - even into double digits!

Here are a few things I have been working on this week:

Colour Me Positive:
The quote this week for the  "Colour Me Positive" challenge (hosted at LuLu Art)  focused on beauty and altho the extra challenge was to use flowers, the idea of puzzle pieces was what drew me. I used photos of myself through the years as well.

Journal Play
This quote about habits wouldn't let me go and so I created a journal spread for it. I am reading Gretchen Rubin's book "Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of  Our Everyday Lives" - and enjoying it.

Faces
Even tho the 29 Faces challenge is over, I still want to continue the practice of creating faces. With the range of faces of myself I had for the journal page above, I decided to try to sketch a few of them.

Art Tags
I only created a few tags this week - I'll have some to catch up with for my 366 day challenge.
Here are a couple:

I also created a tag for the ABC Wednesday challenge for H.

APCs
I also completed a set of APCs (altered playing cards) for a swap at ATCs For All.

Linking also with:

Paint Party Friday

Express Your Creativity

Show Your Face

Inspire Me Monday

Art on Friday

I am just making it in under the wire for Art on Friday.
I have been fighting a sore throat/headaches all week and today's was wicked. I did shake it but then (since my hubby is home til his pacemaker is put in next Wed.) we were off shopping, then supper and finally a date night of watching "The Martian". (excellent movie!)
So I am finally getting to do this weekly blog sharing of some of the things I have done this week.

Colour Me Positive
At Lulu Art, the new theme is on "Heart" with the additional challenge of using collage. Since I enjoy collage and mixed media this was fun to do.

Art Tags
Since the theme for my cards this month is hearts and love, I made a few for some challenges (check my post here on all of the challenges - lots of great ones to take part in)

Here is the art tag and stamp I created for ABC Wednesday.

52 Card Pick-up
The theme this week for this weekly APC challenge is Believe.

29 Faces
I am still using magazine faces to sketch and watercolour faces for this challenge at  Sojourner . Here are 3 of my favourites from this week.

What challenges have you been working on this week?


Also linking with:

Paint Party Friday

Express Your Creativity

Show Your Face

Inspire Me Monday

Creative Every Day (with the theme of love all month)

Art on Friday

It's the end of the first week of February and time to share some of the art I have worked on this week.

Colour Me Positive
The new quote posted for this ongoing challenge is an important one.

It immediately made me think of the book "Wonder" - the amazing book by R.J. Palacio that spawned the "Choose Kind" movement. We definitely need more kindness in the world!

Art Tags
I have started a February challenge of hearts/love for my art tags. Here are the first 5:

(The music tag is for Art Journal Journey's challenge for February)

I also created a tag for ABC Wednesday for D - dog:

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52 Card Pick-up
This week the theme was "Smile"
In some junk mail this week I found photos of smiling children - it was perfect for this week's APC.

29 Faces
I have tried this challenge at "Sojourner" before and enjoyed it, so I have taken on the "29 Faces" challenge. Here are a couple of my favourites from this week:

What challenges are you working on??

Also Linking with:

Paint Party Friday

Express Your Creativity

Show Your Face

Moo Mania and More - Use Your Scraps - which I usually do, especially gelli papers

Inspire Me Monday

Every Day Creative

Art on Friday

I've been able to play more with paint and paper this week. I've joined an art group to share my art  based on a theme and have started a new challenge for September.

Paper, Paint, Pencils and Pens! welcomes artists to take part in the themes.From Sept. 1 -15 the theme is "All Kinds of Trees". Drop by - take part.
Here was my entry:

Journal Page
I used the tree background above to create this journal page:

(The quote is by Abraham Lincoln.)


Collages
I have always enjoyed creating collages and I started a new challenge for myself this month on art cards 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" I also have a huge stash of papers and want to make a dent in them. I have again tried to use stamps. I hope to do more stamp carving this month as well.

APCs
After a break of a few months I have returned to created ATCs with ATCsForAll. The swaps are a fun way to create art and then get new cards from other artists. Here's my latest set - creating a playing card set by the end, using used stamps.

Aces:

Kings:

Linking with:

Paint party Friday

Art Journal Every Day

Express Your Creativity

Creative Every Day

Inspire Me Monday