DAILY ART/ART CHALLENGES

Daily Art #2 – Lemon Love – 5/29/23

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My aunt gifted me these fabulous lemon fabrics and I finally got inspired to use them. I love lemons so I decided to make a little quilt square highlighting my love of lemons. It took a while to do the stitching, but it was fun. It was also interesting working with a mostly yellow color palette because I usually stick to pinks and blues and greens. I wanna make more with yellow though.

Thinking about: lemon yellow painting, making a big quilt with all my tinier quilt squares/rectangles

Listening to: Karma Taylor Swift & Barber: Adagio for Strings

I made the knit swatch in the lower left corner in high school art class when I found one knitting needle and yarn and I used a pencil for the other knitting needle. I’ve held onto it for the past 6 years and I’ve finally used it in a project. I love scraps that can be combined into art later on in my life. Revisiting old memories and pieces from the past and incorporating them into something new.

Daily Art #1 – 5/28/23

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I’m trying to do at least one art every day. Daily art can include any media, any craft, any artistic gesture. I’m gonna try to keep track on here or somewhere so I can hold myself accountable. Also trying to keep the prompt loose/broad/forgiving so I can still think about art every day and not feel pressured to make something really detailed and time-forever-taking. That’s why it can be simply an artistic gesture.

Daily Art/Craft/Gesture Ideas

  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Printmaking
  • Textiles – Knitting/Crochet/Sewing
  • Natural objects arranged in a pattern
  • Line drawing in sand
  • Poem
  • Brain dump
  • Doodle
  • Sketch

Here’s today’s sketch. I just drew and scribbled with colored pencils. Matisse the chameleon and a selfie with a fidget toy on top of my face and lines and ceilings and walls and windows and space.

Words: tired, ugly, messy

Thinking about: chameleon peaceful green, bright pink, ugly olive chartreuse green

Music: Barbie Princess and the Pauper