ATC: Day 5

Today is another two-fer and I went a little impressionistic on the first one.

The links .... I am still posting on pinterest and so is Kim Clanton. You can also follow her on her blog and Teri Partridge is blogging, too. Lynette K. Waters-Whitesell and Leslie Lambert are both posting albums on facebook.

ATC: Day 4

I really, really like this one!

The links .... I am still posting on pinterest and so is Kim Clanton. You can also follow her on her blog and Teri Partridge is blogging, too. Lynette K. Waters-Whitesell and Leslie Lambert are both posting albums on facebook.

ATC: Day 3

Today is a two-fer! Since there are extra artists now, we are doing 40 ATCs in 30 days, so randomly there will be days with pieces. It's a visual bonus!

So , slowly, I think there will be more links coming.... I am still posting on pinterest and so is Kim Clanton. You can also follow her on her blog. Lynette K. Waters-Whitesell and Leslie Lambert are both posting albums on facebook.

ATC day 2

Well, there seems to be more than 30 artists, so we are now supposed to make 40 in 30 days. I've offered to post links for everyone but so far only Kim Clanton has taken me up on this. Look for other links throughout the month for other artists.

the challenge: Day 1

I signed up for the 30 Artists, 30 Days, 30 Artist Trading Cards challenge earlier this month after it showed up in my newsfeed that one of my friends was doing it. It was the brainchild of Susan M. Henshaw's Art Challenge. I don't know Susan, and I wasn't invited to this event, but there weren't 30 artists signed up so I crashed the party joined. Last year I did a 30 day sketch challenge and it was fun. And I figured this was a small enough thing that I could manage it every day. Artist Trading Cards are the size of baseball cards and are original art. At the end of the challenge, we are going to get together and swap, which means 29 people will have a little bitty painting of mine and I will have little bitty pieces of artwork by 29 other regional artists. It will also be a cool way to get to know some other artists in the area.

Speaking of other artists, be sure to follow along with my super talented friend Kim Clanton! I'm totally looking forward to owning a little bitty Kim Clanton original!

I'll be posting daily here to the blog, so follow along. You can also follow along on pinterest.

tied up

Well, I've seriously neglected the blog recently. There have been a lot of non-artsy things happening. On the other hand, I have been doing lots of thinking about how I'm really going to accomplish these mixed media pieces that I need to do for the grant show. Up until now, I've been thinking of them as drawings, but I think they will end up more as assemblages. Time will tell.

Here's a bit of what I got done today...

There are different knots at each of the crossing points. I learned I am not good a tying knots. This took for.ev.er. So far: cotton, sisal, and jute twine, ink on mylar, cotton thread. The blue thread is filler for now; it will not be staying, at least not in its current wrapping. There will be more mylar, and, I think, perhaps some trace. I also have some neck ties which may work their way into this piece, tentatively called the ties that bind...

update: I am tweeting updates of this piece @DawnDraws hashtagged as #thetiesthatbind.

mural class

If you've been following along, I've been teaching a 6 week mural class in Harvey. This was the plan, an 8"x20" painting:

We ended up with an 8'x24' mural on plywood which was to be installed outside on Broadway. The first week the kids primed the boards, and began cartooning which they finished up 2nd week.

Then onto the painting.  

We also planned, if time permitted, to add mosaics to the hearts.

 

Here it is all done! ready for the installation outside! It was decided to hang the mural up high so that it would be able to be seen over any parked cars and to hopefully limit any vandalism. We had planned to have a wrap around secondary mural on the courtyard side of the building, but hanging the kids' mural high changed that plan. This secondary mural would feature the landscape background escaping out of the "frame" and dissolving toward the inside corner.

I agreed on Monday to paint the mural. I would start Wednesday morning. It was to be completed for Thursday's student program when the kids' mural would be unveiled. It was going to be a long two days. Here's the original space the kids primed.

And so I began on Wednesday...

And Thursday...which included scaffolding. Ideally, I would have painted this top down, but that wasn't an option.

The unveiling!

The murals are at Restoration Ministries Gallery of the Arts at 15331 Broadway in Harvey, Illinois. A big thanks to them for this opportunity. They have a great program in place for the community and are working hard to make Harvey a better place.