ICAD - the newspaper and crayon edition

The supplies deprivation continues.  Tonight I don't even have my handy travel bag of scraps.  Instead, I've got some crayons, a red pen, and the Washington Post.  Newspaper is horrible to work with, and cheap wax crayons aren't that fun either, yet I made four index cards in a row.

 

yellow pages ICAD

Tonight's index card is made exclusively from the Manassas, Virginia yellow pages (with apologies to the Day's Inn.)

Gina and Phillip, this one's for you.

ICAD to go

I'm hanging out in Virginia with my beloved family this weekend - staying up late at my sister's house and rolling back to our hotel room intending to crash, and then remembering I haven't done an index card.

I had only planned to pack my scissors and glue stick and a sharpie, figuring I could raid my sister's recycling bin for collage fodder.  Thankfully at the last minute I grabbed two large handfuls of bits from my scrap basket, otherwise you'd be getting index cards using nothing but the hotel room yellow-pages.

6-13-14

6-14-14 #1

6-14-14 #2

 
(even when I think I'm so tired that I think I can't hold my head up one second longer, if you sit me down with a glue stick and a bag of scraps it's hard for me to stop!)

Here's my artistic travel kit:

and here's Thursday's index card, made at about 10:00PM, while I was packing for this trip, and realizing I had to be up in six hours to hit the road and I still had so much to do:

6-12-14

Once again, the ICAD challenge proves to me that I CAN be creative every single day and that it really doesn't take much in the way of time or materials.

most useful tool

Wanna know the tool I've been using most often lately, and have found most indispensable?

It's not my trusty brayer, or my sharpest scissors, or some fancy gimmick.

It's this:

A humble piece of cardboard with a 3x5" hole in it.

Every night I sit down to create my index card collage, and as I push my bits of paper this way and that trying to find a nice composition.....

Laying this frame on top makes everything become very clear:

 

And what starts as a pile of scraps quickly becomes the finished 3x5 collage.

6-11-14

Here are my other index cards from this week:

6-8-14

6-9-14

6-10-14

I'll be taking the ICAD show on the road for the next 5 days as we drive south to spend time with family.  You can bet I'll be packing my trusty cardboard.

In the meantime, I've been interviewed by the wonderful Amy Hood for issue four of her "Art Together" zine!  The zine became available for sale a few days ago, and Amy has an excerpt of my interview on her website today.

ICAD days 2-7

June 2nd:

June 3rd:

testing out a tissue paper technique that I want to use on a book cover.

How come I never notice how poorly I cut out text until I post it online?

I swear it doesn't look that crooked when I hold it in my hand.

June 4th:

June 5th:

Got to work and realized I wouldn't be home until 11PM or so and doubted I'd feel up for an index card that late in the day, so I made this one at my desk using gum wrappers, security envelope, tissue box, and an ad from the recycling bin:

June 6th:

June 7th:

I bought a little foot rest for myself today, and someone immediately appropriated it.  

Guess I'll stand.

New hope for people with pink bathrooms

Here's the cover of the altered book I'm using for the collaborative round-robin I'm doing. 

(Avert your eyes, Mom.)

 As for the title,

I've been holding onto this bit of text forever, not wanting to give it away.

I found the perfect use for it on the spine of my book.

There's a message for the members of the group written on the library card inside the pocket.

The book I'm altering is a "Speedwriting" Dictionary from the late 30's.

 

I realized, as I worked on this, that I could use even more of my favorite bits that I've been hoarding, knowing they will eventually come back to me.

  

Since the project is a collaborative one, I expect (and hope!) some of these pages will have things added or covered or altered. 

(larcenist)

Mine has gone out in the mail and I'm eagerly awaiting the one that will arrive in my mailbox later this week.

ICAD - day one

Today is the official start of ICAD, even though I already made a bunch the other day.
Today's cards are collages on index cards using desk scraps.

(Once I get started it's hard to stop at just one.)

It's my intention to create at least one card every single day for 61 days.  If I do multiple cards in a day it's not to "get ahead" on the challenge, it's just because I'm in the groove!