100 day joyful creativity – Page 3

Day 64/100 Hand Drawn Mandala

Today’s drawing is hand drawn using a fineline sharpie on cardstock.

I think I’ll add some shading to give it even more depth.

This one was really fun to draw, and I think I’ll do somerhing similar using color fineline.

Day 63/100 Mandalas

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Used the sketchbook app again tonight.

The wee one is a busy girl and wore me out this weekend!

She’s learning to walk and her favorite thing to do – hold your fingers and cruise! So fun!!

She’ll be a year old next week! Where does the time go???

Being grandma is such a blessing. 😍

Day 62/100 Mandala

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Mandala using Sketchbook app on my computer.

Day 60/100 Junk Journal Prep

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Finally did a little work on the junk journal project.

It took a couple tries putting an edge on the cover – the first attempt was not good but I’m happy with how it ended up.

Next I went through the signature pages to see how the tags will look – okay; it’s not as full and decked out as a lot of the ones I’ve seen but I’m going to call it ready for assembling.

Day 59/100 Aquarium Cut Outs

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It was late by the time I got around to creativity tonight so I spent a some time cutting out these pictures to use in collage, junk journal pages, bookmarks and tags. I’ll do some random cut outs later too.

Day 58 Make Bad Art and Share It.

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One of the reasons for doing this challenge was to become okay with making bad art.

Don’t get me wrong, I have always created bad art but lately I have been creating less art so when I do create, it isn’t as good as it would be if I’d been creating more which has made me not want to make art…catch 22!

I haven’t really been able to get “into the zone” and get excited about a project. What I really want to create – a junk journal – gets me feeling stuck because it’s new to me.

I love the idea of mixed media and I have more ephemera than anyone really needs but it’s a struggle to put it together. Maybe I’ve watched too many YouTube tutorials – when I try to make my version it just doesn’t look very good.

So I’m sharing these wonky mandalas – out of balance and poor line work – and that’s okay. Next I will share some bad junk journal pages!

Listening to Laura Horn Art Podcast #76. Dina Wakely – Why its okay to make bad art was helpful too. She suggests we lower our expectations and have fun creating…sounds like a great idea!

Day 57/100 Mandala

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My go to when I’m having a hard time with a project – especially a tech project is a mandala.

It’s easy on the mind to make the lines – I’m really happy with how this is looking. It definitely will get some shading at some point!

Websites are a pain in the butt – my difficult project. I don’t know what I’ve done but somehow I can only get in using a random login and password…computer generated, which means it’s not easily memorized.

And I can’t add photos from my phone…everything is much more time consuming this way.

I did get another challenge going at aleapintolife.com though. A 30 day Challenge to help me learn to let go of some of my stuff. Day one today! At the end of the challenge I will be 465 items lighter – I’m excited about it!

Day 56/100

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I spent the day with this little cutie and her mama – I’m so blessed!

I decided to add another challenge into my life on an alternate website. A 30 day purge challenge. Clear the clutter challenge. Learn to let go challenge….

So I spent a good chunk of the evening trying to set up the website – without success. I’m hoping I’ll have better luck now that I’ve installed updates on my computer – what that has to do with anything I’m not sure but fingers crossed.

While my computer was updating I found a book page that had a watermark doodle through the center. I got out a micron pen, did some tracing and added a couple of basic lotus flowers on the top and bottom.