Yesterday's mail brought an envelope full of nature related images. It was from a swap-bot partner, and the object of the swap was to create a cool envelope using the nature theme and include at least a dozen images for your partner to use in future collage.
Here are both sides of the envelope I created and sent to my partner last week:
and here are the four index cards I made last night using some of the images my partner sent me:
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I was so tired last night after a wonderful full-day family outing that I didn't see how I was going to make an index card. My cloudy brain felt overwhelmed and at a loss for ideas. I remembered the swap envelope, still on the kitchen counter, unopened. I poured the contents on the work table and decided I would use only those images. (I ended up adding my own tissue paper to #2 and #4, and the text to #1, otherwise all the images came from that envelope.)
I just sat there pushing the images around for the longest time until eventually the chicken one came together (with a little help from my typewriter and the song stuck in my head). After that, I was inspired and all tiredness was forgotten. And this is exactly why I love the ICAD challenge so much. Without having made that commitment to myself, I would have fallen asleep on the couch without making any art last night. Instead I came away with four small collages that make me smile, I pushed myself to look at fairly conventional images in new ways, and had a thoroughly enjoyable and energizing hour of creativity.
Oh yeah - and I brought myself four collages closer to my goal of 365 in 2013. Win!
Your sense of humor is always so evident in your work, even when you are tired. Love that chicken! xox
ReplyDeleteI agree with Corrine--cluck! Cluck!
ReplyDeleteI am in love with the chicken...it's amazing!
ReplyDeleteI hope those are flames behind the chicken, that makes me laugh!
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think working with a tired mind can be an advantage - it certainly seems to have worked out well for you here!
ReplyDeleteArt is incredible that way, isn't it?!
ReplyDeleteYou always put fun stuff together!
These are so cool. I love how bold and graphic they are. You used such a great combination of images.
ReplyDeleteYes! I am always so creatively filled up from ICAD. Even when I first think I have nothing left in the tank. Sometimes it is enough that I showed up and did it even when that is the last thing I wanted to do.
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ReplyDeleteThat chicken card is the best thing I've seen in WEEKS! Maybe MONTHS!
When I was writing all the time, one of the most important things I learned was that, regardless of whether I was tired or sad or anything else, the writing comes out just as well or even better. It's a strange truth that's counterintuitive. But it seems to work with writing, art, exercise, or taking things from the store when no one's looking.
They all came together so well, and with those gorgeous artistic envelopes flying around the world the postal service must have a lovely time sorting the mail.
ReplyDeleteLove them all, but I think my favorite is the very cute donkey or burro. I know what you mean about the ICADS. If there happens to be some left over paint or scraps laying around there's an ICAD waiting to be born.
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