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creatively speaking this week... spirals, painting challenge, machine choice, Spring Green, COLORS! from Not Afraid of Color

I've been progressing on each project this week. Each step teaches me, each color excites me, art is healing

Above is my rainbow scrap challenge block this year, a hexie spiral. Hand stitched with small scraps from my orange collection. So satisfying when it is done.... here are the colors completed so far

just blocks lying next to each other

The Index Card a Day challenge is on, I'm woefully behind but have now done several. We use the prompts to create something each day....

"Spring" "Cobalt" "Iguana"

Love how the paints blended in the petals

drawn from ...

added by LA Paylor 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under icad , painting , rsc

creatively speaking this week: drawing, painting, and sewing from Not Afraid of Color

I have just a few things to share with you this week starting with one of my two rainbow scrap challenge blocks this year. The color focus is on orange scraps this month, and using them.

I chose 4 duos this week, cut them into 2.5" strips, sewed cut sewed cut sewed them into blocks of orange

Orange covers a large spectrum of color, from yellow orange to pink orange (coral)

I tried to blend some as they will not be together in the final quilt top, but mixed in with all the other colors.

Orange makes a quilt ...

added by LA Paylor 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under icad , painting , rsc

doing what we can to celebrate color... sewing bits of fabric together, watching paint dry, interpreting a theme from Not Afraid of Color

The block above came from this book

on the sewing front, I needed to see color sewn to color, repeat. I got out the blue scraps that are exceptionally small and started sewing...

the log cabin logs finish at 1/8th inch

I thought, I love foundation piecing, why not just do some really small (2") blocks, mindless right? I didn't count on the intensity of dealing with such small seam allowances and strips of fabric 1/2" wide. I completed two blocks and moved on.

sewing to paper is a good idea for me now, can't use ...

added by LA Paylor 1 year, 4 months ago. under icad , painting , rsc

watching paint dry and embellishing quilt blocks from Not Afraid of Color

I'm struggling with physical challenges but wanted to feel normal... know what I mean? Feeling normal means painting, writing and quilt making to me... so this in a nutshell is what was made this week.

mostly in pictures.... can't be at computer for long but connecting with my art peeps keeps me feeling human.

Love my metallic watercolor set from fine-tec

I did two icads this week, small artwork on a 4" X 5" index card, the first prompt was wabi-sabi, a Japanese term that sort of means imperfection, impermanence, are to be valued... if you repair an ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 2 months ago. under icad , painting , rsc

watching paint dry this week... from Not Afraid of Color

My creativity this week was challenged by physical pain... sometimes creative time takes me out, but sometimes nothing can take pain away. Know what I mean?

the painting above was done in small format of index card, as it's fairly fast. I watched a tutorial by Creative Cove. I started with what was left of a mailing label for the post office, printed on sticky backed label paper. Rather than toss it, I pulled off enough to cover the index card and began painting with watercolors and a bamboo brush.

you can see the printed words peeking through

I ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 2 months ago. under icad , painting

watching paint dry, and fresh hand embroidery techniques from Not Afraid of Color

Welcome to this week's creative offerings... The image above is from one of my embroidery workshops, and it was a full week of lessons, 9 a day for 5 days... the embroidery summit. I couldn't do them all of course, but tried to print patterns and watch techniques from most.

I seriously hurt my back/spine alignment, trying to finish the binding hand sewing on this quilt last Sunday. It's done when the hand work is done but it's bulky and heavy to work on so... can't do much now.

I let the index cards ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 3 months ago. under . embroidery , icad

watching paint dry plus stitching one little fabric to another until it's done from Not Afraid of Color

I did a lot of medicinal arting this week.... you know about bodies turning on you don't you? Welcome to this week's artful round up...starting with one of the index card prompts which I got quite behind on...

I usually do the day's prompt in the morning but I ended up having to catch up a bit doing four at once

she encouraged us to use printed script this week while doing the daily prompts. Generally I need to stay away from chemicals so I love watercolor, pencil, pen and ink. These can be interpreted in ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 3 months ago. under icad , painting , rsc

My creative week, watching paint dry, drawing, index card challenge, and a finished bed quilt! from Not Afraid of Color

Welcome to this week's creativity round up!

I am highly inspired by the Index Card a Day (ICAD) challenge prompts. The first week we had 7 prompts and were asked to focus on using mark making tools. The second week has 7 more prompts and we're encouraged to use collage. All my cards are 4" X 6" and unruled. (like me)

the card above, was interpreting "treble clef" and I used a stabilo crayon and water brush, red pigma pen.That's the card my engineer/musician husband likes best and wants framed in his office... nice compliment ...

added by LA Paylor 2 years, 3 months ago. under icad , painting , rsc portal

wake up! art and commentary from Not Afraid of Color

today's index card a day prompt is "rooster"

I searched google images and found a rooster with his mouth open... telling us to wake up! and I see that as very appropriate for our country this morning

I copied the image the size I needed, colored over the back with stabilo crayon, then placed it face up over the index card and drew the lines I wanted as reference. This is for personal use.

I painted it with KOI watercolors, my waterbrush, used staedtler fineliners for lines and lettering in my own font.

Our Democracy is being threatened by ...

added by LA Paylor 3 years, 3 months ago. under icad

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