#dailysketchplan2018

Michael and I’s daily sketchbook plan is going along wonderfully.... the two of us and a few others who have joined in, are sketching regularly. You can see all the posts using our hashtag here! It has been fun to see the wide variety of subject matter going into everyone’s books!!! Monsters, portraits, plants (mine) and cool characters!

Here’s is what I have put in my book this week.....

My process for my found poems is just this:

My son, Jace, ripped apart an old book... Zane Grey. So I decided to use it for the poems. I randomly rip out one page and limit myself to only the words on that page, just one side. No flipping. Cut them out, glue them down using a glue stick and tweezers. A quick and fun way to fill a page in my sketchbook.  It is almost like fortune telling.... you don’t know what you have to say about your life or your day until you are limited to 100 words on a page. Plus I think the vintage book factor makes it more fun. 

On top of sketching daily I have also been taking a photo a day.....

Scribble picnic and a new self imposed challenge

Michael Macvean (see his website here) posted a question in his Instagram stories this weekend asking for ideas to use in his sketchbook for a daily project, and in answering him and in our further conversation we came up with a plan. We both have a new unused sketchbook and we both want to create a daily habit of drawing. So to keep each other accountable or just to know we are not creating alone, we are starting this project together on the 20th. We probably will fill our respective journals very differently, I am leaning more toward an account of what I am seeing and doing each day, whereas he is leaning toward creating characters and other things from his imagination, but we are both leaving it open so we have lots of options if we get bored with our chosen topics. 

It would be great if anyone else out there wants to join in too. No rules. No sign ups. But we will sketch daily and possibly post daily (for the most part,  but no pressure or obligations) to Instagram, (we plan to use the hashtag #dailysketchplan2018 on Instagram), and possibly even do weekly blog posts as well. 

So if you already sketch daily, consider joining us. If you don’t yet, but would like to, please consider joining us! You have till the 20th if you want to start when we start, but since there are no rules and no set timeline you can join in anytime, just use that hashtag and we will see you and follow along in your progress too! And if you are not on Instagram just leave a comment once in awhile so I know you are creating too.

I plan to post here: @fallingladies

And Michael’s is here: @a_dotty_hill

When considering how I wanted to fill my sketchbook I came up with a list. (Of course, since I am addicted to lists) I would love to just pick one theme and fill my whole book with that, but I would get too bored too quickly. So maybe I will pick 3 or 4 topics to use, but most likely is I will do a little of everything and just throw it all in my book! 

 So here’s my list and here’s my sketchbook (cool huh!) I have been holding this book for a year, not knowing how to start it or what to use it for....

Daily Sketchbook ideas:

Maps

Fruits

Recipes 

Lettering practice

Found poetry cut from old books

Mandalas 

Botanicals 

Bugs

Rock cairns

Seed pods/ nuts/ nature sketches

Life drawing

Perpetual sketchbook (I’ll explain later)

Abstract designs

Zentangles

Houses

Doors

Furniture

Cars

Bicycles

Antiques

Toys

Things you used to own 

All birds 

All fish

Under the sea 

Beach scenes

Boats

Imaginary boats

Tea cups

Packaging that inspires you

Flowers 

Things that fit in the palm of your hand 

Succulents 

Quilts

Use a Limited color palette 

Or just Pen and ink

Or just pencil and one bright color 

Do a Sketch but use one piece of paper or fabric as well

Glue down a magazine cut out and sketch off it

Collage 

Mushrooms 

Cute Animals 

Realistic animals

Anthropomorphic animals

Kid characters

Character expressions & moods

Character movement

Fabric design icons 

Tea bag landscapes (I’ll explain later)

What you ate today

“What’s in front of you: breakfast, art supplies, your feet, your backyard, spouses face etc

Portraits 

Things in your purse

Collections: postage stamps, keys, favorite things: clothes you love, pens

An event from your day: scene at lunch hour, a chore you did 

Your pets 

Imaginary pets

Monsters 

Fairies

Paperdolls

Tarot cards

Illuminated quotes

Fictional characters

Things in jars 

Origami 

Pattern design 

Your shoes

Your jewelry

Children’s book rough draft 

Artifacts from a world you create!!!!! 

And actually I didn’t follow my own plan... I started sketching in it already instead of waiting till the 20th, just to see how this new paper takes pen and watercolor..... so here’s my entry to this week’s scribblepicnic!!! The theme this week was hot chocolate.

What are you waiting for, grab a sketchbook and get ready to join us! ...... pretty please.....

It all started in October

It all started in October...
I fell in love with the way ink blooms into water color...
Now I have all these completed pieces.
If you want to see extremely short videos of creating parts of them you can go to my Instagram accounthere
Or if you want to purchase one just message me and I will set up a listing for you....
They are 5x7 and the first person to claim each one can have it for $20.00....






















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2018 goals

I have been taking this week to figure out my 2018 goals, to reorganize with my new purse (that always feels good to do in the new year) and come up with a new bullet journal system that will work for me. 

I am using Jane Davenport’s butterfly journal from Michael’s because I can customize it however I want. Here’s the cover and a few calendar pages I did myself. Still not sure if I want to see my calendar weekly or monthly. I am going to try both over the year. And I added a page for goals, books read, a gratitude list, a bullet style goal tracker page, and blank watercolor pages, and blank paper for notes and ideas.

 I always go overboard joining challenges as they come up on social media. I am going to try to limit what I join and just set my own art challenges.... like sketching or journaling a little every day, and taking a photo a day. And continuing my practice of keeping a daily gratitude list..... things I am thankful for, things that make me happy.... little things (besides family, which of course I am thankful for) like mushroom soup, orange flavored dark chocolate bars, cats in car repair shops, a white fuzzy blanket..... 

I am participating in one or two challenges though. As usual I will join in with Scribblepicnic over at @a_dotty_hill on instagram, and paintpartyfriday blog. 

Here is one which I think will be fun because it’s only 2 illustrations a month, and it will force me to read these classic kids books. I am reading black beauty now. It should be great for building a portfolio to submit ,which has been my goal for awhile now. 

And if I don’t stick to any of it , then so what. I am not going to make these things into chores or work. The purpose is to learn and grow and enjoy it. If it isn’t fun anymore I can quit without feeling like a didn’t succeed because it is not about the end result. 

And I came up with my word of the year which I have done for about 6 years now....

            ACCEPT

Simple as that..... just accept what is .....that is my plan,

Happy 2018 to you!