Index card art

Index Card a Day Project - mixed media, sketchbook drawings, art journal project - patterns and drawings created on index cards, one a day for 61 days! Challenge hosted by Daisy Yellow Art

A list of ideas for creating on index cards or blank cards. Start a themed series, experiment with art materials, toy with ideas, and learn new techniques. Energize your creative practice by working on this simple and imperfect surface.

This post describes how the Daisy Yellow Index-Card-a-Day Challenge works. What is the idea behind the challenge? Why do we use index cards to make art? How do index cards help launch a daily art practice? What materials are needed to do the ICAD challenge? What fun things can you do index cards or

Like I mentioned a in the beginning of last month in June and July there is an art challenge going on that is called ICAD - Index-Card-a-Day. It's low key and fun, and I'm making collages with stickers, cute images, washi tape, words, labels and this and that found in a little box of treassures

Are you doing the Index Card a Day challenge? This is a challenge to create a small piece of art on an index card, every day, for the months of June and July. This challenge is the brainchild of Tammy, over at Daisy Yellow Art. You can go to her website for challenge details. I tend to arrive late to most parties, so I did not even get started until mid June. Since I was already behind, before I started, I decided to create all my backgrounds at once, to sort of kick start my project. I…

"Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem." Rollo May

Index Card a Day Project - mixed media, sketchbook drawings, art journal project - patterns and drawings created on index cards, one a day for 61 days! Challenge hosted by Daisy Yellow Art

Years ago I noticed that participating in challenges, setting mini-goals (and mini-constraints) helps me generate more ideas! Something about the camaraderie, the creative energy, the shift into a bit of structure, all feel good. The beginning of a creative challenge is usually full of optimism and