Author: lauramchugh

Tonight, I finished up four paint chip cards using the tutorial on Go Make Something (link).

I’m not sure how happy I am with them. I can’t seem to do anything “straight.” I always want to mix it up from the clean, simple lines shown in the instruction example. My watercolor paint borders and fill-ins are delicious to me, but one thing I have a really difficult time judging is how these sloppy presentations land on others. Interesting? Sloppy in a bad way (poor artistic skills)? How’s an artist to judge oneself?

Here’s one of the 35 photos I took at the Musee Mechanique on Ceeb’s birthday. I’m finding it very challenging to get any art done during the work week!

I actually did this art over the past several days while up in Washington, but thought it would be a nice arrangement to post today and take credit for as my Monday art. I took a photo printed by a friend (11×17) on her Canon Pixma printer and cut it up and used the sections as backgrounds for doodling. I did the doodling mostly in watercolor, with some in colored pencil. This is a great way to use up beautiful scraps of paper that are too nice to throw away.

Last night, I arranged all the faces from Musee Mechanique with frames. I should have taken a pic of that, but didn’t. Now I have to get the photos in shape to have them done at the Costco Photo department and buy the matting material. Here are stacks of the photos as promos, printed with the proof sheet function from my Canon Pixma printer. The proofs are somewhat striated and printed on regular paper.

The final photos will be much more beautiful. Here’s an example of one.

There will be 35 in all. Ready for a show somewhere.

I haven’t finished them yet, but set up now to make about 12 cards using this great technique I saw on GoMakeSomething.com: start with paint chip cards (I used the large 4×6 size that have four colors to a card, perforated). Then use a nice punch to cut out shapes. Adhere these to a piece of folded cardstock and voila! a new and fun card you can use to send thank you notes for holiday gifts.

I still have to assemble mine and I think I will probably be embellishing around my little floral do-hickies with watercolor and/or fine tipped pens.

Hopefully I will have some results by tomorrow.

I did this variation on a photo I took of the Columbia Gorge yesterday, but forgot to post it. So this is art for 1-3-09, in keeping with my 2009 resolution to do art every day.