A Thing A Day: February

During the month of February, I made the commitment to make one piece of art a day.  (The other part of the commitment was to post it but I couldn't get that part done in time!)  I finally finished scanning and posting all of the images, and would very much like to share them.

To the left is the card for February 28th, but I didn't make it until yesterday.  I didn't want to end, and I didn't know how to encapsulate how this project made me feel.  And I found this surprising:  many nights I didn't want to sit and make a card, or cards would back up, waiting to be finished.  I thought I would be glad to be done.

But this project has helped me to shake myself out of the day-to-day grind that I was stuck in, especially at work.  I had to start looking and paying attention, instead of covering my eyes and running blindly through my day.  I had to stop and pick up images or sort through my thoughts that would make it to the day's card.  Unusual for me, I was okay with letting things be what they were and I was uniformly pleased with the results.  I began to see patterns in my art making and journaling that I don't quite understand:  symbols of tsunamis, noticing that my writing started to lag behind the wiser image.  And it seems that the project isn't quite done yet:  I have to link the images together somehow.  I may not know what the project needs to be complete for many months.

Beyond that, I have this feeling that this project will take me to new places in my art making and journaling, I just don't know how or where.  I just know I have to keep going and trust the process.

A Thing A Day: February 5 - 13

I am so excited to share these!  Please check out my Thing A Day page here.

*I should say that the beautiful image of the woman above is a collaged found image.  All of the cards created are a combination of found images and drawn images.

A Thing A Day: February 1-4

I'm super excited about this one.  I spent hours trying to get the coding to work so that I could mouse over images to share what I've been working on.

The challenge is to make a thing each day.  It seems so hard, but I am blown away by the things people are making as part of the challenge.  Everything from sketches, to music, to baking.  I forgot how far reaching the definition of make and creativity are.

For me, I am altering a playing card each day.  At the end of January, I sanded down the front of back of 28 cards (the other 24 were used here).  Every day, I pull out one of the pre-sanded cards, which I stamped with the corresponding date.  I'm gluing down found items, painting, writing as my day goes by.  On the stamped side, I am journaling.  Here are days 1-4.  To see the journaling (and my fancy roll over magic, go here):