My ICAD Practise: # 43-48

ICAD #48

Reverse order today, just to see if I can still go backward ;~D... The fun of this ICAD made today is that it sums up exquisitely what the past 6 days have been for me. I've been inspired, making all sorts of art, even writing up a storm. For anyone who has ever felt like creating is like swimming up waterfalls or herding cats, just commit yourself to making one itsy bitsy index card a day. 

This is one of my wildly wacky under the sea critters that I have been working with the past few months in my paintings as well with the kids at Kickin' Arts Camp last week. This week I am taking them to a whole new level...

ICAD #47

Another of my funny fishies with a message to myself that I sometimes forget.

ICAD #46

This is actually a bad printer copy [the inks were dying from thirst so I changed them yesterday] of a collage I made with "leftovers" on Monday. I had been working on a painting and was having such fun with it that I just kept on keeping on...

ICAD #45

After a busy BUSY week last week, I slid into the weekend and just wanted to marinate in the peace and quiet. Sometimes I find cutting and culling through paper to make my "paints" is more soothing than a massage [of course it has been way too long since that happened, so I could BE exaggerating!!] so I did a LOT of both. I was working on a painting inspired by Santorini. NOT that I have ever [yet] been to Greece, but I have it in my head that it would BE idyllic... With a LOT of leftover "paint" from that painting, I started to play with my ICADs, making the blues of the water and sky into a mini oasis...

ICAD #44

I was playing here, too, with my leftovers as well my lines that I have been poeming the past 48 days [no I am NOT kidding, I started with 50 lines and I will BE done on Friday!!!]. I love this little note to myself about failing BEcause goodness knows I DO it enough. Funny thing, since I've started DOing it with ENTHUSIASM my "mis-takes" are BEcoming wondrous sideroads...

ICAD #43

Although I was fairly cross-eyed last Friday, Friday the 13th no less, I had my eyes open for inspiration. It was that day when I finally decided to start my painting which I had had in mind for awhile. Some of the wee houses I had cut up to use for the hillside effect left BEhind some cool bits. Thankfully ICAD2 has given those little bits a home...

This is truly a keeper of a practise. I love Tammy's suggestions for other ways to take it, too. For me, especially, it seems to have given me a focus and a way to "finish" things. I don't know that "finishing" is really the point, but I noticed that I wasn't finishing things BEcause, then what?! Now, with this new habit in place, that is moot. BEsides, sharing with you all is well worth it.

Thank YOU times a trillion, Tammy!! You're making a BIG difference in my Life!!