ICAD starts June one
Index card art for two months
Daily challenges!
Art Prescription: So ICAD 2016 starts tomorrow. Most days through June and July I will be working from prompts from Daisy Yellow http://daisyyellowart.com/vividlife/icad-2016-prompts-week-1
I did this last year and it’s such a fun way to create everyday. As you all know I create on index cards all through the year. They lend themselves to all kinds of media.
Join us!!
ICAD 2016 Cover Card:
A crew of women
The horses watch as their tack
Is cleaned shiny new!
Art Prescription: Fun day doing spring cleaning at the barn.
Illustration on a 5 x 7 index card:
Rain bounces and drips
Puddles form, run-off races
Garden drinks it in!
Art Prescription: Hurricane season here in the Carolinas often brings welcome rain. A good excuse to cuddle up with someone you love, or multiple someone’s you love…family nap.
Index card with pen and colored pencils:
What if I’m enough?
Messy dreamer, artist-like
And loves so deeply.
Art Prescription: Seems the whole universe has advise on how to maintain a happy relationship. In fact it’s a national past-time with loads of magazine and radio articles devoted to this issue. Just look at the tabloids as you check out at grocery store.
What if the person we love, loves us back just because! Because we are the one person in the universe that makes them happy. And that is just enough!!
Index card with watercolor:
Off into the mist
Of green grass, afternoon sun
Finn in element.
Art Prescription: Not much is prettier or more peaceful than watching a herd of horses let out onto a grassy pasture. Rode Finn bare-back…Friday ritual..and put conditioner in his tail and mane. Sublime.
Index card with colored pencil:
Who you are right now
Layers of a lived life
Put in place by grace.
Art Prescription: Give thanks to your many up’s and down’s, for that is what built the you that is YOU!
Index card with acrylics and collage:
Lunch fortune cookie
Attitude, a little thing
A BIG difference.
Art Prescription: A new mare came to the farm today! Whoot! Frosty! So I grabbed a quick lunch of egg rolls, and my fortune was right on par!
Index card with colored pencil and fortune:
In the cool spring mud
A Mourning Cloak Butterfly
Feeds on minerals.
Art Prescription: For those of you who follow my blog you will remember the gem I found while walking at Mason Farm. It’s a Mourning Cloak Butterfly. They use their probiscus to feed on the minerals found in mud. This is why you often see a bunch of butterflies on a puddle.
Index card with colored pencil and graphite:
Ordinary day
No fame, fortune, lottery
Just blessed laundry!
Art Prescription: And I do mean blessed…a pile of cats on freshly folded laundry, inviting me into the curl to rest.
Watercolor and acrylic 8 1/2 x 11
Flimsy assembly
Pine needles, twigs, and grass stems
Weaves into a nest.
Art Prescription: So I’ve been worried about “my” Morning Dove nest. It seems so simple and not very well put together. Then I read that this is common, it’s just the way they build a nest. Nature knows best.
Index card with colored pencil and pen and ink:
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