You might choose to simplify what you create, or shift your expectations to take away any perceived pressure. Remember that art can help in ways that are difficult to describe in words. We inspire each other while we inspire ourselves. I didnвЂ™t have any idea whether anyone would be in the mood to do ICAD but we had a record turnout! It was incredibly uplifting to see the colorful art flying! It is comforting to focus on making and sharing what we create with art friends around the world. In addition to all the collage pieces I mentioned at the beginning, each of them also has a bit of corrugated cardboard (cat food box), some dimpled recycled packaging, and some words cut from an old book.Дo you have a favourite colour from the ones above? The colours are Quinacridone Magenta, Transparent Pyrrole Orange, Quinacridone Gold, Green Gold, a Green (made from Green Gold + Cobalt Teal), Phthalo Blue RS, Dioxazine Purple, a Red Violet (made from Dioxazine Purple + Quin Magenta).In 2020 we held our 10th annual challenge amidst the early phase of the pandemic - we were freaked out and didnвЂ™t know what on earth was happening. IвЂ™m also using some of my tea bag papers from all that tea IвЂ™ve been drinking lately. Some of these things have been in the stash for a few years! I thought it was a good opportunity to use up some of my bits and pieces from my stash so for this yellow one I have a piece of gift wrap with a bird on it, a gel print, gold tissue, a tea bag, music paper, yellow envelope, and a bit of notebook paper with Distress Oxides on it. Oh well, I guess it wasnвЂ™t meant to beвЂ¦ but just look at the pretty collage coloursвЂ¦ Uh-oh no portraits, all collage! I got so caught up in the choosing of the collage colours to try and match each of my colour cards, and then building the layers up on the cards, that I forgot all about the portraits. Painting some portraits on top of that would be quite nice but I thought it seemed a bit boring so I decided to add some collage, and then one thing lead to another andвЂ¦ Really just an excuse for me to play with and test out various watercolour pigments and possibly a bit of colour mixing. ItвЂ™s funny how plans change when you start working on something isnвЂ™t it? One of the themes for week one was portraiture and I tucked that one away in the back of my mind to think about how it would work with my main theme which isвЂ¦ It makes sense since this is already the 9th or maybe because nine of them laid out together look better than seven of them would? So instead of a week at a time, I have decided to aim for batches of nine at a time which will give me 6 x 9 and then the final seven days at the end of July. I had planned to work one week at a time, but as I was adding final touches to them this morning I ended up reaching for the day 8 and 9 cards and just doing them while I was in the mood and all the collage stuff was still out on the desk. I was a little behind with finishing off my week one ICAD cards due to having to wait for some things (a lot of things) to dry but I managed to get the first nine all finished and photographed today. Happy Wednesday, hope your week has been good so far! I had an enjoyable day working on a few things, some in progress and some finished, some barely started.

Icad 2021