wishing for a spring day

i love the color green.
today is such a grey day, everything outside is dull and the sky is ready to release rain.

in my journal today

inspiration/art everyday in feburary

the creative act starts in feburary and is simply make a piece of art everyday for a month, then post it up on your blog, flickr and comment on the blog.

inspiration from my flickr contacts:
one is from citrusfaire
two is from queenthings
three is from kala art
four is from supercapacity
five is from cat sidh
six is from queen of tarts

afternoon

i bought ephemera and collage sheets from various websites. the slide mounts are for my altered book cover and the postage stamps are just there because i love to use them in my collages!

it's still a little bit weird to be back in school after such a long relaxing, art filled break. it's not so bad though because my classes are pretty interesting. i'm taking political science, sociology, art history and english. school does kind of 'socialize' me because i don't mind being by myself.

trash is treasure

i love paper junk. dress patterns nobody uses anymore. the inter department envelopes with names scribbled across it. brochures from stores. daily calendars and furniture catalogs. it's so fun to rip and cut and paste things that are ordinary into my journal. to play with colors and composition. i like journaling because there is no right or wrong, i like how raw it is and it doesn't need to be a finished piece. it's just exploring and fun to do.

no mail??

i swear mail can be the highlight of my day sometimes. i get home from school around 2:30 and there's no mail yet...

another morning/another collage

dawn/dawbis who is a wonderful artist, and the creator of open yours too has started a new project called the paper quilt project. it's a collaborative collage quilt that lets 12 artists participate each month. even if i don't get the chance to participate, i can't wait to see how each quilt will turn out to be!

quick collage/off to school

the yellow toca park tag thingy was lying on the sidewalk, and of course i had to pick it up. i used to dislike yellow, but now i find that i like the color more and more. it's almost time for school and i have to wash the dishes. yay.

dressmaker's mannequin atcs and art journal entries

today's collage


yesterday's collage


yesterday, i also made atcs with torso tags, the template is at Go Make Something, butterfly wings and colored with silky crayons. i liked how these turned out like paper art dolls, though i don't have any women's faces that were small enough to fit..

mail and books

i'm hosting my first swap at the atcards forums (i'm tealights there) and theme is image transfers. and while sign ups are closed i've been getting amazing cards in the mail from the participants. it is great fun as the host to see all the cards and well, get first pick at the cards...i also think it would be great to create a gallery of all the cards in the swap, so i plan on doing that soon.

school is starting up again, so i've ordered almost all of my textbooks online to ease the pain of textbook costs. i am not exactly enthused about going back to school, but i guess i don't mind because i had a nice long break.

day 9

my internet is being a pain in the ass. it keeps dropping my connection every five seconds. great.

day 8

day 7

day 6 / work in progress

today's art journal entry

i've been working on several things lately, this seems to work well enough for me, because i can't seem to work on one project or piece at a time.

first, i've been slowly altering a book and trying to "find" a story in a the collages i've been making. it's definitely about correspondence & travel and bits of fashion are added in as well. here are some pages i've done.







it's going to take awhile for me to complete this book, but i will keep blogging about my progress.

here's the almost done shrine:

it's a fashion themed shrine, with a dress pattern backround, women cut from a vintage magazine and buttons, a belt buckle and a clothespin glued on. this is my first shrine, but it's not complete yet. i need to add something, maybe a word or two and then it will feel complete.

day 5/recycle

i joined a recycle swap on the atcards forums and the rule was to use only recycled materials. since i already use a lot of ephemera and recycled materials, i wanted to challenge myself a bit and use things i wouldn't normally use in my atcs.




these two cards are made out of:
1. manilla envelope - i like the interesting look people's handwriting brings to the card
2. manilla folder
3. address label
4. lined paper
5. stamps



these cards are made out of:
1. brown sugar label - my mom buys brown sugar from chinatown and yesterday morning she was opening a new one
2. white rabbit candy wrappers - one of my favorite candies, very milky and sweet, like a taffy.
3. red envelope
4. gold candy wrapper - from a symphony bar, which is my favorite chocolate bar
5. milky candy box - i cut out the cute little girl's face and split her eyes from her smile.

day 4

i had fun using shades of yellow. i've been working on a lot on atcs lately, but i've also started altering two tins to make into shrines.

day 3

morning collage

i was thinking about how my journaling had fallen to the wayside of my art work. but that art journaling was how i started making collages. i was also inspired by keri smith's morning collages which was art journaling just to get the mind thinking and moving. so i've decided to take part in this type of experiment. i want to pick out the scraps on my desk and make a messy collage out of it or rummage through the recycling bag and pick out junk. the collages i make may be wild and messy and even outright ugly, but hopefully it will get me to open my journal again. i don't want to think too hard, just act intuitively and rip out scraps and look at all the colors coming together.

here's one i did yesterday:


& this morning: