color in my world this week

 

I spent 9 hours a day on a drawing and painting workshop this week, and am exhausted but I wanted to share just a few things today, tomorrow and Monday... for now this is the bit of sewing I'll share

the block is from this pattern, and I'm doing one a month in the rainbow scrap challenge colors... this month is bright blues (I just love elephants)

 

speaking of rainbows... it is the prompt for today's index card a day prompt challenge. 

the challenge this week is to interpret the prompts in collage or acrylic paint. I'm not an enormous fan of acrylic paint as it dries too quickly here, but I like to stretch. Being a word lover and writer, I jot a few notes about the day, the process, my thoughts at that moment on the back of each card and have a journal now! Some are very personal, some are less...

Here's how I approached the Prompt "Rainbow" at first I thought, love is love, so I drew a heart... and as I wanted it off center, I put it on scrap paper to draw the complete heart so the lines would be continuous

then I took my tubes of acrylics and daubed  three on the image...

I've ruined some palettes and brushes with these paints so I cut up a yogurt lid to make a squeegee and dragged it over the blobs from left to right and daubed the excess onto another copy paper sheet.

I went over the pencil lines with black acrylic and a liner brush, and tested it first on this sheet too...

doggone if I don't love it! It's exuberant and a total accident. I especially like the top left color whatever that is, with the black random arches. I forgot I like drawing with a paint brush too!

I'll leave you with this one I ended up loving... the prompt was collage, and "pictograph" which I chose to interpret with ancient cave painting like handprint, for hand made

this was a painted coffee filter my friend Sonja in Hawaii sent me... I tore it and glued to the index card. Then cut out a hand from freezer paper to use as a resist (as mine is much larger than an index card)

I used acrylic paint in ochre, on a cotton ball, and daubed over the hand to look like the ancient paintings I've seen, with ochre blown around the artist's hand on rocks.

a bit of ink dots, and writing on the back, and it was done. I love doing this daily, while drinking my coffee, in my pj's, starting the day in color. 

Sonja told me how she uses filters to daub up leftover paint, so I set to using one this week during my painting lessons... then just started painting it on purpose and ended up with this...

collage goes on for a few more days... but these are going to be fun to use! 

I wonder what I'll make next? It's all good...

sewing workshop coming up this week. I also am in process of hand binding my leaf study piece which I hope to share next week. Thanks for visiting... I'd love to hear a comment and have learned if I have trouble leaving one on a blog, sometimes it works if I go to Chrome browser. Tech and art... oy vey...

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