So, it’s Art Every Day Month and I have doing a decent job getting art done.  My goal was to finish something everyday since I have the pesky habit of leaving things half finished because my muse “leaves” me at about that point. Turns out my muse doesn’t go out to lunch and leave me – I kick her out with perfectionism.  My muse was frustrated with me to the point she wouldn’t even show up.  I gave up. I resigned myself to not doing any art today.  I really gave up.  Then my muse returned hoping I had learned the lesson I needed to learn.  I don’t know if it is truly finished yet – but my time is up for today’s art adventure…looking forward to spending some time tonight checking out the art adventures of all the artists over at AEDM!

Rubber stamped on a canvas.  No idea what it will be – so just random.  Liked the imperfect impressions – added to my “who cares” attitude and rejection of perfectionism.  Used a waterproof ink pad.

Grabbed a handful of prismacolor pens.  I believe any alcohol based pens would be able to do this.  Randomly colored – still no idea where it will go…

Used rubbing alcohol to smear the colors.  Added more pen in places until I was happy with the colors.  Did I know where it is going?  Nope.

A bit of white painted dry brushed over it to tone it down a bit and cover up some of the stamping.

Added a few words with paint – of course imperfection – it didn’t go as planned but I liked it.

I decided I wanted shadows but instead of using paint to create it, I went for real shadows.  A complimentary color of fun foam was die cut and the layers glued together so it was like custom made pop dots.  I’m too cheap to use that many pop dots on one project!

As I worked on this, I knew I wanted a word in it but what word?  I began to think of all the gifts I have in my life right now from a supportive family, a home, all the good health in our extended family, great art communities in Art Every Day Month and Paint Party Friday, so much to be grateful for in my life.  I realized I have an abundance of good – so there was my word.  When my husband saw it (he is truly supportive but has an odd sense of humor) he remarked on how that one word is 3 silly words – A Bun Dance.  Perhaps my next painting will be about little buns dancing…

I started by gluing down the paper flowers and text. Found out some of the colors on the flowers reacted to my glue.

The greens and yellows did not have the vibrancy I was looking for so I covered it with yellow Radiant Rain spray.

I wanted the flowers to be thick with layers of colors so I started with red.  Then some more white gesso over it so the next color could pop- but the yellow spray ink became a problem because it added a yellow tone to the gesso.

Now some metallic blue.

Pink and the word.

More white to make the next color pop.  Added white to the word also.

The green of the background need something so a bit of light turquoise.

Turquoise on the flowers.

Green ink dripped from the top.  Then sprayed with water to get it really runny. Added purple ink and realized that was a mistake – green and purple make mud.  Ooppsssss! Paper towel and water to the rescue!

More green ink and water.  I am really liking the build of color. This is what I wanted to do all along – glad I didn’t give up.  I also transferred little bits of text.  Whenever I rubbed too hard some of the paint layers pulled up too – really liked being able to reveal the layers beneath.

Since I was using book text it transferred the reverse but I just did a “sloppy” job and nobody could read it anyway – so it didn’t matter it was reversed.

A bit of dimensional paint to make the word pop out.