100 days

at the end of April I started the 100 day project (thanks for the nudge Anika). I decided I didn't want to commit to just one medium so I chose the hashtag #lauramakesfor100days leaving me room to branch out from collage to drawing to watercolor, to maybe even cooking a new recipe every day.

so far I'm on day 21 of collage. it's something I've always loved doing in my journal and it's been a lot of fun. here is my first week, with more to come, and all are posted on IG and Flickr. (Please excuse the horrible inconsistent white balance, sigh, I'm working on it.)

challenge kick-off!

Yes I look forward to many years of looking at the triangles. - George Costanza

sunset

Saturday scraps

monochromatic

snip snip

modern art goat

thunderegg

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birch trees for the #patternjanuary

Day 2 forest prompt. my neighbor's tree has been shedding bark in my yard so I thought it was a sign. 

this piece is kind of a two-fer for me: a perfect little pattern for my forest submission and a fun usage for my idea of using these old Roladex cards as small scale collages.

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textures don't quite show up digitally, but this piece was fun to make. I tried doing a photo image transfer in the lower corner than didn't quite show up. but now I like that there's a faint, almost distant, rubbing of building windows. 

this one's for my mum's birthday. how cute is she & her cousin? wish I could hang out with those two in Italy in the 60s.

my jealous curator

The Jealous Curator is one of my favorite blogs ever - what an amazing idea (why didn't I think of it). for any type of creator, it's so true to see something and think "why didn't I think of that?!"
in my case this week, I've selected two artists.

the first I actually saw on Pinterest but was in fact posted via Jealous Curator: Shawn Huckins. his paintings are amazing. I've been collecting paint chip samples for decades, using them in collages or saving them because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them. I just love color families.

Shawn Huckins

secondly, these portraits from Erika Altosaar. such lovely, lovely lines.

hair portraits by Erika Altosaar via Wolf Eyebrows

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>>a walk in the woods before I get my pecan pie game on for tomorrow<<

sidewalk art

 

I've always thought Campmor magazine was the J Peterman of the outdoors. also, packing tape image transfers are fun!

small scale

going through my journals recently I noticed that a few of my favorites were always small, particularly two moleskines and this journal - one of my all-time favorites that I picked up at Fischberger's Variety in Milwaukee a couple years ago. sidenote: that store is my playground.

anyhoo, that left me wondering: is that because I'm limited to small pages that I fill them better? was it just timing and those were some of my favorite time periods? (nope!) is it just the journals themselves? (maybe. I do love this small 'lil fatty!)

sidewalk art

>>building some art making habits this week<<

almost forgotto

got way, way caught up in Sunday rituals (bloody marys, sweater shopping, cleaning & snoozing) and nearly skimmed right over Nablopomo today. so here's some affogato since I almost forgotto.

Cloud City Cafe

and because I believe collages pair nicely with espresso and ice cream, some gorgeous vintage material collages by Augustine Kofie via Colossal.

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bits and bobs from California: a lil paint, a lil washi, gift store bags, campsite registry tags, sagebrush flowers, Joshua trees, minerals, my honey on the way to Convict Lake and probably the best beer I've ever had.