There are two creative tricks I love the most: making very small art and making very quick art - or at least being able to sit down for five minutes and see a big difference when five minutes are over.
I found a challenge that combines both of these: ICAD2014 stands for Index-Card-a-Day and the point is to actually make art on an index card every day for the month ofo June and July. Naturally it took me absolutely no time to say yes.
Ironically, I found the challenge as I was heading out to my car to go to Open Studio at Art for Healing and work on some even SMALLER works-of-art made from Pictionary Playing Cards.
For the first card which I made today, I combined the prompt from the SITSGirls Photo Challenge with the "TEXT" challenge from ICAD.
Its not horrible. A start, anyway. I said I would create - I created - and as
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So - that’s my artsy-ness for now. Happy Check In!
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