Let’s go back a month to December, to the entry I posted way back on Dec. 22. I wrote about  Care December   @ Everything-Art with Kasia Avery, a 15-day adventure of daily prompts focused on the endless shades and tones of the color blue. The background of this piece is a discharge paper from my color mixing of blue shades. I love the poem. #caredecember  

Are you listening? This is my house everyday. Why is careful listening so difficult? Grrrr…. so frustrating! It’s, once again, kind of fascinating how this piece unexpectedly pairs with the facing page in this spread. Are we humans listening to the signals our environment and planet are sending us? I think not. And this piece wraps up 15 consecutive days of art guided by thought-provoking prompts. Stick a fork in me; I’m done. I had loads of fun,   and it is very satisfying to look back through my journal entries.  Thanks, Ugly Art Club. Until the next challenge . . .    #tuac5minchallenge

  Biohazard Gotta admit: this prompt stumped me. All I could focus on was the graphic design of the warning symbol associated with biohazard materials, so I just drew that and added a couple of quotes. Not my favorite, but I didn’t give up. #tuac5minchallenge

Odd Number Day 12 of this challenge . . . maybe my brain has decided to rebel against the complicated and thought-provoking stuff. Ya think? I almost didn’t post this, but a little crazy humor is good for the soul.  🤪 (Just a smidge over 5 minutes.)   #tuac5minchallenge

Mismatch Welcome 2024. May it bring opportunities to come together, be kind, practice gratitude, seek peace, and find joy. Today’s prompt circled in my head, but the art just happened spontaneously. I was mixing colors in order to make decisions on a limited palette for TWO classes that begin today. (Yikes!)  Opportunities for artistic expression will abound in the next few weeks, so it’s time to prep materials. The leftover blobs of paint from swatching became this piece. Easy and quick. Done in 5minutes!! #tuac5minchallenge

Dip-Dye Ok, I had goggle this prompt. Fun. It’s time to work in neutrals today. Dip fabric scrap in coffee and then India ink. Stitch the prompt. Illustrate with Stabilo-All pencil and Bleed-Proof white. Find some text to fill in the blank space. Enter a moment of magical serendipity.  Serendipity x 2 1. I opened my favorite book* to a random page, and glanced at the paragraph at the bottom of the page. How magical is it that THIS is the paragraph for this prompt? Embroidered texture? Torn cloth? Wow, unbelievable. 2. Opening my journal to glue this in, I was stunned to realize that this is the facing page to the Landscape prompt, the page where I used fiber paste that looks like fabric. OMG. Chills.  * The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama & Desmond TuTu Art is such a blessing!  #tuac5minchallenge  

 Landscape This may be the coolest art thing I have ever tried . . . FIBER PASTE! With all the dizzying array of mediums on art store shelves, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. What does each of them do? Of the texture pastes available, I have only tried crackle paste until I discovered fiber paste. OMG! When dry and peeled off plastic, it looks much like fabric if smoothed down with a palette knife. If roughly applied, it has these lovely peaks and valleys like snowdrifts or . . . WAVES. I went with the wave idea and used watercolors to create a seascape. The surface accepts watercolor like good cotton paper. I’m gonna be buying a vat of this stuff!!!! Endless possibilities and such fun to mold and paint. Yahoo!!! #tuac5minchallenge