If you are interested in making some index card art, you can join any time. There is still a little less than a month of the challenge left. There has been plenty of experimentation leading to several creative and exciting вЂњaha! momentsвЂќ. IвЂ™ve explored a variety of styles, techniques and subject matter. So far IвЂ™ve used acrylic paint, gouache, watercolor, sharpie pens, prismacolor fine liners, acrylic paint markers, ball point pens and pencils. Since I wasnвЂ™t strictly focusing on patterns this year, I took a fresh approach to the challenge: вЂњanything goesвЂќ. Having that gift of time on my hands, I began to rediscover play and although I have the attitude. Those of you who have followed my blog will know that I recently went back to work full-time after a few months of unemployment. I kept it simple and only used a set of Zig Writer markers for all the cards. apropos of nothing toi toi against a clear, cold winterвЂ™s sky. Part of what made ICAD such an attractive challenge to join last year was that I really needed something low-key after a super busy June. ItвЂ™s already been a little over a month, and I thought it would be fun to share the cards I made in June. ICAD is hosted by Tammy from Daisy Yellow and runs every year in June and July, and this year I decided to join in for the whole run. I decided to combine the challenges for the month of July, and I had a lot of fun making patterns with markers on simple index cards. Last year I participated in the last half of Index Card a Day (ICAD) while I was in the thick of my daily pattern project. IвЂ™ve started applying the new creative ideas from the cards I made to some recent larger paintings, and itвЂ™s really moving my work in an exciting new direction. Because of this, I created layers of texture with paint, markers and pens, or added detailed embellishment with pencil or pen. Even when I had something that could pass as a finished piece, I often felt like taking the card a step further. Because index cards are such a small surface to work on, when I had extra time, I would put more effort into that dayвЂ™s card. I wasnвЂ™t expecting that it would be a creative boost for me on top of the fun and easy part. When I started this challenge, I took it on as something fun and easy to do. Here are a few of my favorites from the second half of the challenge. I did it! I successfully completed one piece of index card art per day in June and July!ДЄctually I finished many more than the official 61, so I might have to do an вЂњextrasвЂќ post on top of this one. Yes, I did say, 'ICAD' and just a reminder that those letters stand for Index Card a Day, a creativity jumpstart from Tammy Garcia of the Daisy Yellow Art Blog.It runs June 1st through July 31st, and the point is to do something creative, on an index card, each day.

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