Collage and Drawing on Index Cards

My index cards for June 30 through July 7, 2011

Stop by DaisyYellow's blog to see other participant's

index cards, or to join the challenge! 

I have found that it is easier for me to 

do several cards in a sitting, rather than

one per day.  But I am trying to stick to 'one a day'

in order to make art every day.

Index cards are a great 'warm up' exercise.

Then I often move on to another project or

my art journal pages... 

Index Card A Day (ICAD) -- Catching Up

'Alphabet'

Collage with painted papers

and markers.

'Blues'

Collage with painted papers,

fabric, and marker.

'Pink and White'

Collage

'Yellow and White'

Collage

'Coffee (and thin bagel)'

Zig pigment pen

'Simple Pleasures'

Watercolor background,

markers and pens.

(I doodled this while listening to 

a podcast of Teesha and Tracy Moore)

'Jeans'

Collage with fabric,

label and stamp

'Pink Sky'

Collage with painted fabric

and painted papers

'Rust'

Gel pen and chalk pastels

'Stitch'

Acrylic background, marker,

embroidery and fabric collage

'Watercolor Rose'

Sketched in pencil,

watercolor applied, let dry;

Pigma pen outlines

'Spring Flowers'

Watercolor, crayon,

and assorted pens

Since I started this challenge late,

I did two cards each of the six days this week,

so now I am caught up.  Be sure

to visit Daisy Yellow  to get the links to see

the work of the other challenge participants!

Graffiti Dragon

Highlighter and marker in

visual art journal. Copyright DBC 2011.

Trying out "Graffiti style" lettering

and drawing. I was thinking of

'Puff the Magic Dragon'

but realized there could be

other unintentional connotations...

I'm not a tobacco (or otherwise) smoker,

so just think of this as fire-breathing

dragon smoke.

Very reminiscent of my art work

when I worked for a Tee-shirt

transfer company.

Not exactly like graffiti, but a fun experiment.

I wouldn't be fast enough to actually

paint a 'tag' on anything 

without getting caught...not into

danger, vandalism, or gang signs, 

but definitely intrigued by street art.

I often wonder what it would be like

to put my work over one of those

ugly billboards beside the freeway?

French Fashion Exhaustion

Doodle/drawing from an old sketchbook, 2007. (For a larger view, click on the image.) Phrases were lifted from a Vogue magazine, and sketches drawn from the same magazine.
Includes ball point pen, purple permanent marker and watercolors. This sketchbook is square, so I wasn't able to get all of the image on the scanner. You can't see all of "intense
colors express who you are" and the phrase "Extremely Cultured." You can see that some of the women's heads were drawn on lined notebook paper, then torn out and collaged into my sketchbook. Not exactly "high art" but it still makes me smile for some reason! Hope you enjoy it...

Art Journal Page

Art journal page
magazine images, acrylic,
watercolor, pen, Sharpie marker,
on recycled cardboard

Art Journal Page

Inspired by Kandinsly...
art journal page drawn in
Sharpie extra fine-point marker...
a bit like Zentangle with Kandinsky
abstract shapes.

Collage on Index Cards

There is some organza fabric over the painted tissue paper in the collage above, which doesn't show up well in this photo...it adds a little sparkle.

Mixed media: fabric, acrylic, marker, watercolor, magazine clippings, hand-carved stamping, miscellaneous embellishments.

Saving the tiniest scraps of paper and cardstock that have been painted or stamped, gives me plenty of material for these collages.

Buttons and linen fabric added to the collage above.