Welcome to Week 18 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! If you haven't started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post will be open all year so be sure to check back to see what other fellow creatives have made with this week's exercises. Read more about the challenge here.
Without further ado, here are my 7 for this week… the good, bad, and ugly!
#120 Color in the strawberries using different materials. I used colored pencils, crayons, a fineliner, and a marker. Excluding the top row, I tried to keep each of the techniques to each column and duplicated the fill method. I really enjoyed this exercise and found lots of ways to color strawberries!
#121 Continue the color spiral pattern outwards. A couple things on this one. First, I think the squiggles should have gone the other direction. I was having issues with making my humps go to the left! I felt like this was empathy for all the left-handed people out there. Second, I didn't change color on any given time frame. I changed color whenever I felt like it. This leads me to my last thought... don't you think it kind of looks like one of the jelly roll rugs? At least in the distribution of color? That reminds me I need to make another rug.
#122 Today, draw simple shapes, holding the pencil in the opposite hand to the one you usually use. I think my shapes turned out fine. However, my left hand was so sore after just these few shapes and letters. I had a major death grip on the pencil!
#123 Draw your favorite part of your house. This typically would be my sewing machine. However, I haven't been sleeping well this last week and all I could think about is getting back to my own bed!
#124 Explore different materials to discover what you enjoy using. Today, experiment with collage. This is a prime example of why I love this book. I used to do scrapbooking and a lot of different paper crafts. I was not into this exercise at all in the beginning as I started to think about what I wanted to do. Part of the prompt listed out layering the paper, and I had an idea with the flowers. I cut out the flower and layered the color behind the background piece, then I added stems for fun. This turned out way better than I could have hoped, and it sparked some thoughts about how I could use this with quilting! Win-win!
#125 Draw a wintery forest walk. I chose watercolor for this one, but I didn't use different greens. I tried to make my trees different values of the same colored green and I think it worked! I added in the brown details with a brown brush marker. I also hope this is the last exercise about winter for a few months!
#126 Create a design on this rug. I started with a star block but I exploded the star block and did a little bit of shifting. I was freehanding the dimensions, so it's not perfectly the same shape. This idea and concept has sparked some thoughts about what this would actually look like in a quilt. Definitely something I should explore more.
Now that we've all had a good chuckle and/or grimace, I encourage you to join in the fun and expand your creative horizons too!
We are slowly creeping into the middle section of the book! This is the part where I feel most people, myself included, start to feel fatigued in any project. It's best to think of the exercises one week at a time, rather than we are only getting part way through the book! Start sharing your exercises to keep yourself motivated to keep on going!
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