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 welcome to my creativity round up for the last week of October 2022.

no not raking, 

The little index card with a message for me on it is about all I've painted except for fabric this week. I started with a word written with stabillo crayon, and wet brush dragged the paint into a shadow. Then leaves drawn with pigma marker, painted with watercolors, it was done! 

A workshop lesson this week was to try block printing on fabric

square stamp with spirals, lumiere paint

The quilt above was pieced from scraps sent to me after the colorful fabriholic finished her kaleidoscope quilt. I have made good use of them, and their colors are perfect for this time of year. Now I let these scraps sit waiting for this time of year, because I like to work in colors of a season.

workshop by Kaaren Poole

It was taught by Kaaren Poole who reminded me I want to increase my illustration skills... on two pieces of paper, painted with watercolor over pencil sketch. 

I love the whole thing, and the dandelions floating off.

It will get words when finished

and most of all the little ear...precious

Also love this little guy taught by Willowing's Tam LaPorte....

lots of sewing this week....continuing on my scrap challenge in Fall colors (sent by Jan)

so ...

In honor of Fall, the cute small (about 20" X 24") quilt above was made with fall scraps, from a pattern I got from canadianneedlenana (maybe from this source. ) I love the little bird and would make that again

note little fussy cut fall images in stars

fussy cut words in the pumpkin stars too. I love this orange fabric with crows!

I admit, it was hard to allow myself to cut into the hoarded rust colored moda fabric to bind it ...

The finished top of X blocks above is pressed and ready to pin baste then quilt. Still not sure what to quilt. I've been seeing stars this week in studio. The color of the month at RSC is light blue and here is my  twinkle block for the month.

pattern source superscrappy

I use scraps and find some botanicals to use when I can. The center was a scrap I tried out a stamp on. 

uses the tri rec tools

I found the pattern on canadianneedlenana I Like post a few weeks ago and had to make it. The blocks are small and full of sewing tiny pieces and it was challenging but it's all together now and needed some visual ...

prompt was "sprinkle"

For this week's creativity round up I am starting with vase of flowers. This is from a two week list of prompts to make something 2" square each day. Sometimes I make two...

I am using index cards again, and sometimes painting then cutting down. DH came out of the office, saw a painting I just finished and asked how the neocolor crayons worked. I did a quick leaf study...

I watched this video lesson on how to draw and paint this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4QQqg0fi80&list=TLPQMjgwNDIwMjJec36i-sddtg&index=7

Take a big rest... think about it... I used my pointiest smallest brush, and my kuretake gansai tambi watercolors which have a sort of shiny cast to ...

on offer this week at the creativity round up is drawing on index cards (no prompts), sewing on several projects, and video tutorials.

I started by watching a video on Botticelli and his work Venus. While watching I was struck by the beauty of venus and took out a stabilo crayon and index card to capture the feeling.

a quick line sketch with a water soluble stabilo crayon, then judicious use of a water brush to drag the black crayon into shadows. 

a little white gel pen for highlights, and I just love her. 

next up was a zentangle ...

Index card art... One Line Leads to Another

I find that to be the case...  

I enjoy many art/craft forms... and find I go back and forth between them. This week was spent back in my sewing studio, working with orange scraps because ...

now, how am I gonna close that box again!?

This week I took a free online paper crafts class at Rebecca Page, as well as sewing a good bit. I'll show you the things I spent time on, so let's start the show! Starting with fabric...

this fussy little star, pattern by Gyleen Fitzgerald ...

Welcome to this week's round up of creative works!

This was one of my index card a day paintings... prompt was "forest" and I painted quick aspens

Mainly this week I either did index card paintings or art quilting. 

(As usual click on a picture to make it larger for detail)

 Recently I found out about two painting link parties on Friday that I am happy to join, so starting next week I will break up the creativity post into two, paints on paper Fridays, Fabric art on Saturdays.

 I finished a project, started months ago as a workshop ...

Index card a day prompt "together

I usually write a poem or small paragraph on the topic, on the reverse side each day... but I just practiced fonts ...

paint over a written list... turns into art

art is a collection of so many decisions.... mixed with a desire to see a thought/feeling expressed  ---LAPaylor

I spent a lot of time finishing up a design that jumped in my mind so much that I needed to stop the presses and make it... Unfortunately it will be my ...

Here are two more paintings done from her recent workshop of teachers

I read this somewhere this week...as a painter we have one job, cover things in paint. I heard this when watching a video about the impressionists... and love it. No pressure, enjoy color and watching it dry...

I learn from each painting, about color, shading, line and shape. When I start from an image, I try ...

ICAD prompt  "pineapple"

My round up will include some finished quilts as well but might as well finish by sharing a few ICAD's and remember I'm keeping a daily diary on the back of each one.

Prompts were mix and match, jukebox, mango, solstice, ouija board, selvedge, and bitmap

I finished binding the Leaf Study piece this week

"Leaf Study"

a ...

Mostly this week I was immersed in an embroidery workshop, (Embroidery Summit) 7 instructors a day X 5 days! I'll share some work in progress... it was my goal ...

the block is from this pattern, and I'm doing one a month in the rainbow scrap challenge colors... this month is bright blues (I just love elephants)

speaking of rainbows... it is the prompt for today's index card a day prompt challenge. 

the challenge this week is to interpret the prompts in collage or acrylic paint. I ...

see the bit of blue batik pieced in above?

putting something like this together is very like making a mosaic, or a puzzle, careful ...

Basically you stitch a square, then when you come back around to the start, put your finger at the bottom of that line and aim to stitch straight to your finger's width away from the bottom right corner. Turn, do that again, over and over til you meet in the middle. It's interesting but felt tedious. 

I am calling this my table ...