With July winding down it also means that ICAD is winding down. A few days more and August will be here. It seems to have gone by quickly. Here are Weeks 7 and 8.
Day 43 - Lilac
Paint Pens, Watercolor Pencils, Micron
Day 44 - Roundabout
(There is a difference between a Roundabout, a Rotary, and a Circle which I didn't know. I thought they were just names for the same thing.)
Micron, Paint Pens
Day 45 - Kaleidoscope
This looks like it took a long time, but once I got into the flow of making those squares it seemed to go quickly.
Stabilo Markers
Day 46 - Pond
Do you call these cattails or punks? I asked HWNSNBP to get us some so we could burn them while we're working outside as a way to deter some of the bugs. He reminded me that he tried to get some a few years ago and got wet feet.
General's Watercolor Pencils
Day 47 - Record Player (Off prompt unless you equate the grooves of the marker and the vinyl circles with a record.)
Markers, Vinyl punch outs from some new pencil cases
Day 48 - Cupcake (Off prompt)
I was playing around with my Zig Metallic Dot Markers and these birds showed up.
Day 49 - Tropical
I had done something similar in a sketch book last year.
Microns, Generals Watercolor Pencils
Week 8
Day 50 - Typography (Off Prompt)
My hand just wanted to make these scribbled circles.
Stabilo and Micron Markers, Graphite Pencil
Day 51 - Blur
Zig Clean Color Dot Markers
Day 52 - Ice Cream
Some fruity ice cream cones.
Dollar Store potted paint, Micron and Stabilo Markers, Watercolor Pencils
Day 53 - Botanical
Micron and Watercolor Pencils
Day 54 - Translucent
This was an experiment that didn't work out as well as I pictured it would. I used a piece of white tissue paper for the sun hoping that it would be translucent. The writing was on the card already but it wasn't readable so I traced it on the top of the tissue paper. (For a couple of days last week we actually had a lot of smoke here on the east coast from the fires on the west coast. It really did make the sun look like a red ball in the sky.
Acrylics, Micron, Tissue Paper
Day 55 - Tendril
This was a font I found online.
Microns and Stabilos
Day 56 - Encyclopedia
Who else learned how to spell ENCYCLOPEDIA from Jiminy Cricket?
Micron, Derwent Inktense Pencils, Gel Stick
So the final stretch is here and although I enjoy doing these cards I am looking forward to taking a break from challenges for a while. I have to get back to my card making as I'm falling a little behind on my Christmas cards, and I have so many ideas that I want to try with some things that have accumulated on my work table.
Beautiful work.
ReplyDeleteMy favourites are the botanical and the ice-cream cones (I see spider webs and flowers!) but I think the kaleidoscope looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteWe call them bulrushes, or reed mace. Are they good bug deterrents? I didn't know that; is it simply the slow burn and the smoke.