Releasing…twice

One of our projects for the Novel Approach workshop was to create a grudgy background using NeocolorII crayons and covering it with bits of acrylic paint - you can see the scribbles in the background.  Release is my word for the year - so I decided to doodle it onto the page.  I ended up misspelling it - but I was able to sneak the A in and incorporate it into the doodle.  Yay.

I quite enjoy doing these grids with the little pictures I am forever cutting out and keeping.  This was an exercise for our Novel Approach workshop, but instead of just leaving the painted background, which was green in this case, I did a favourite zentangle over top and I quite like the effect.

Try something new from time to time when you create something everyday.

Joan

Alphabets and Blues

For one of the Prompt60 prompts we had to fill a spread with different fonts that we made up.  Not as easy as it seems - what works well for one letter may be difficult for another.  I can't say that mine are very original, but I suppose if I did it more often I would be able to come up with something more original for a particular piece.

Another prompt in March was to pick a colour and to create as many shades  on watercolour as possible and then label what the shades reminded you of.  Creating the shades wasn't so hard - thinking of a connection in my life was a bit harder, but in the end I was able to identify them all. 

That is one thing that I am enjoying about these prompts - they are making my brain work - thinking about my world and how I view it.

Create something everyday.

Joan

I hope you had a Happy Easter!

Hand Lettering outside the Box

Daily Paper Prompt #42 - Hand Lettering

I did this page the day after the prompt - but I used the events of the day for the prompt.  It's kinda hard coming up with different ways for lettering - but I managed.

The words were inspired by the different ways I lived outside of my box that day.  I don't usually talk to strangers - I don't usually talk when I'm in a big group of people I know…

1) - I had a mochachino with a muffin for breakfast (downtown Banff) and that is NOT the sort of thing I have for breakfast!

2) I answered a couple of strangers when they asked what kind of bird was hopping at our feet while we were all waiting to cross the street - it was a magpie and I went on to talk a bit about it.

3) When passing a restaurant I saw a wife whose husband was reading the menu on the outside of the building.  I stopped and told her that if they hadn't eaten there before, the food was good.  She seemed to appreciate the information.

4) A group of tourists were standing in a line outside a store with a friend taking their picture on an iPad.  I asked if he would like to be in the picture too - they were all happy about that.

5)  And this is the biggest step outside the box.  I was invited to the Spa at the Banff Springs Hotel with a couple of women from the conference.  I did not have a bathing suit, and would have been happy to lounge and doodle in an art book…..but since we had to drive downtown, I was given the opportunity to go to the Bay to buy a swimsuit - in 5 MINUTES.  And I did it….ran in, found one, looked at the size and bought it -WITHOUT TRYING IT ON.  

And - since it was just such a perfect day from the beginning…..the bathing suit fit and it's one I think I'll be keeping in my suitcase for just such an opportunity in the future.

It's scary to live outside the box sometimes - but sometimes it works too!

Hope your day is great - 

Create some outside of the box art today.

Joan.