Not-Art 50-59

 

Day 50. Acrylic paint.

 

Day 51. Crayon, eyeliner and lipliner. I had just gotten a sampler pack of ATC-sized art papers, and couldn't wait till I got home to try them, so I made some quick not-art on the go.

 

Day 52. Acrylic paint, colored foil I'd received for New Year's. I textured the orange and yellow foils, then painted over the texture and removed some of the paint. I also only used pieces of the foils to cover the ATC-sized board, and put blue and orange paints in the spaces between.

 

Day 53. Marker, ballpoint pen, pencil.

 

Day 54. Foil candy wrappers, marker.

 

Day 55. 'Illogical'. Marker on ATC-sized card. I'm using a lot more ATC-sized cards since I'm almost out of the business-card sized boards I've been using since the beginning, and because I was given a plentiful supply of ATC sized ones for New Years. My family knows how much I love my Not-Art project.

 

Day 56. Block printing ink, acrylic paint.

 

Day 57. Tackling yet again the Skyy vodka color scheme.

 

Day 58. 'Window'. Oil pastel.

 

Day 59. 'Sodden'. Acrylic paint on ATc-sized paper. I had glopped rather too much paint onto the board, and didn't like how it looked, so I laid the paper face down onto a piece of scrap paper, then peeled it off, effectively removing about half the paint and introducing a neat effect. I repeated this step several times, thus distributing the paint colors, then put a few swipes of bluish-lavender and white paint around the corners. It felt finished then.

Not-Art 46-49

 

Day 46. Marker. Some kind of Pac-Man crazy is going on, plus Xs for stitches.

 

Day 47. Paper, marker. Not my finest hour, I was in a hurry.

 

Day 48. Rollerball pen. These doodles are always fun to do, and I got into the spirit after a bit--you can see the music motion in the lower left corner, and a feathery, pine-branchy thing.

 

Day 49. Paper, rollerball ink.

Not-Art 37-45

 

Day 37. Paper, rollerball ink, old stamp from envelope.

 

Day 38. 'Constellation'. Marker, rollerball ink. I just drew a random pattern of dots, not thinking at all, then randomly connected them and it ended up looking like a constellation. I always liked making up my own better than trying (and failing) to find them.

 

Day 39. 'Test'. Paper, rollerball ink, marker.
Because I am more than what fits in the box, more than numbers and letters could ever say.

 

Day 40. Paper, marker.

 

Day 41. Block printing ink. This stuff isn't meant to be used as paint, but I did anyway. Took several days to dry.

 Day 42. Paper, rollerball ink, glitter, white glue, block printing ink.
I think I used some paper from the inside of a bill envelope.

 

Day 43. Paper, block printing ink, marker.

 

Day 44. 'You Don't Need TWO Ears!' Marker, acrylic paint.
My near-obssession with Labyrinth continues. I am quite fond of the pyromaniac Chilly Down stoner monkeys with their various removable limbs and innocent yet nightmarish games. My favourite part is when one disembodied head follows Sarah as she climbs up a wall, insisting 'What about your ears? You don't need TWO ears!'. So I painted a chaos of orange, red and pink tones like the monkeys, dotted with pairs of eyes and a stray tail.

 

Day 45. Paper, oil pastel. I think the curtain is coming up on the sun, with a blue handkerchief in the foreground. Or something. There's a reason I call this stuff not-art.

Not-Art Daily 34-36

 

Day 34. Rocket paint, acrylic paint.

 

Day 35. Paper, rollerball pen, rocket paint, nail polish, India ink. 

 

Day 36. Leather, marker, India ink.

Catching up on Not-Art

 

Day 25. Collage, paper, rollerball pen, marker. This is one of my favourites, and somewhat closer to my definition of art. The paper scraps are cut up bits of old lists and things I wrote.

 

Day 26. Marker. I'd been watching Labyrinth that day (no, nobody give me any funny looks, there's more to the movie than David Bowie as the goblin king) so you can sort of see the spirals and angles as 'walls' complete with openings.

 

Day 27. Colored pencil and oil pastel.

 

Day 28. Oil pastel. Vaguely inspired by African mud cloth.

 

Day 29. Acrylic paint. I meant for this to be mostly blue but other colors insisted on getting involved.

 

Day 30. I started out angry, thus the base of varied reds. Got happier as I painted, thus the orange, pink and burgundy. Added bits of green for color theory.

 

Day 31. Marker and rollerball. Made this during Monty Python.

 

Day 32. Liquid shimmer, eyeshadow, eyeliner and lipstick.

 

Day 33. Silk, marker. I call it 'Jerusalem' because I made this during yet more Monty Python, and man do those guys have some kind of obsession with the song.

 

Day 34. Bronze rocket paint, acrylic paint.

Not-Art Daily 20--24

 

Day 20. 'Makeup Box'. Acrylics, inspired by a page in a fashion magazine.

 

Day 21. 'Wormhole'. Acrylics. Inspired by the visuals of going through the Stargate, which sends travelers through a wormhole to other planets.

 

Day 22. Marker. 

 

Day 23. Marker and ballpoint pen. I wasn't trying much that day.

 

Day 24. 'Let It Burn'. Marker and rollerball pen.

Not-Art 15-19 and an announcement!

Announcement first, as I'm too excited to wait--I've opened a second store! Now you can get shimmerstone jewelry from my Etsy shop AND my new shop on Artfire! http://www.artfire.com/users/BrightCircle

In celebration, the first customer at my Artfire will receive a free pair of earrings with their purchase!

Number 15. Conte crayon.Trying my hand at sketching a postcard of a beautiful woman with flowing hair, done by local artist Gabriel Pons. Well, his postcard was of a beautiful Asian woman. This one ended up a lopsided Asian girl (sorry Gabriel! I promise I'm not trying to sell this!). I'm far more comfortable with abstracts than I am with sketching, which is why I occasionally sketch--to get out of my comfort zone. I just tried to sketch what I saw, not what I thought I knew, and as a result, the mouth is fairly good for someone at my level.

Number 16. Acrylic paint. Inspired by a magazine clipping of a city block glowing neon at night, with a golden building as the focal point.

Number 17. Acrylic paint. Inspired by the show Fringe, with its dichotomy and twin realities, one represented by blue, the other by red, each with elements of the other mixed in, and a blurry dividing line. Everybody, tune your TVs/DVRs to Friday nights, and let's keep Fringe on the air!

Number 18. Acrylic paint. Inspired by an ad for, believe it or not, Skyy vodka. The ad was a startling image of glossy red boots, and a cobalt blue bottle against a bright yellow background

Number 19, today's painting. As you may have guessed by now, acrylic paint yet again. I really like the paints, the saturated colors, and how well they cover the drab beige of the original chipboard. Perhaps I will grow to love the other media as much when I have a white canvas to work on. Or, white chipboard. This was inspired by the cover of the album 'Wake Up And Smell The Coffee' by Irish band the Cranberries, most known for 'Dreams', 'Zombie', 'Linger', and 'Ridiculous Thoughts'.

Non-art Daily 12-14

 

Acrylic paint, consciously experimenting with color complements--multiple shades of blue paired with a smidge of orange, on a pale yellow background and an edging of lime green.

 

Acrylic paint. I started with a white background, added a wide stripe of maroon and decided that pink would go nicely, as would golden yellow.

 

Marker and, experimenting with different materials, a bit of blue eyeshadow.  Somebody made fun of some lyrics to a song they knew was special to me, just because they didn't like the band. I think that's very uncool. Hating on a band is one thing, dissing lyrics you KNOW means a lot to someone else--that's different. I don't go around dissing song lyrics special to them, no matter how respected or scorned THEIR favourite band is. The band in question is Hanson, and that's their symbol on the left. I was, for lack of a better word, inspired to write 'NO ONE' on the right. I'm not sure what it means. But it has to do with my feelings of how it's not cool to make fun of people's special songs.