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Given how hectic my teaching year has been, I told myself that I should ease up a bit during summer vacation: Nope, no Index-Card-a-Day for me this year.
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#Icad 2016 series#
In the fall of 2015, I began a portrait series in watercolor in which I improvise the colorization once I get the basic shapes drawn. ICAD 2016: Revisiting a Favorite Technique. During ICAD 2013, I used gouache in monochromatic tones to create the portraits. In the summer of 2014, while convalescing from foot surgery, I created "Postal People" with yearbook photos as reference. I've worked with yearbook photos many times and it still tickles my fancy. I brush on some grey acrylic paint and then, using vintage, black & white yearbook photos as reference, I draw characters with permanent black pen and color the portraits with pencil. I'm working on some ancient (and consequently extremely sturdy) index card dividers that I found at my local recycling center. Enter my first set of index cards for this year. My cards this year are completely conjoined with my preparations for my October show (two birds with one stone and all that.) I'm not entirely sure yet where my show is going visually and thematically but I do have one wee wild idea to explore and experiments are needed.
#Icad 2016 how to#
I'm just going to dip my toes into the challenge whenever I feel the water's fine and when it's too chilly or I'm too busy for a swim, I'm going to let it go.Īll that said, I have very specific plans for how to approach ICAD 2016. I'm not the least bit concerned with "catching up." Some days, I might make five cards and then again, I may go five days without making a single card. I may not post about all the cards I make and that's OK too. I did, however, make a few allowances for myself: I probably won't make all 61 cards and that's totally OK. Well, I lasted all of 12 days before I decided to jump into the annual creativity fun fest that is ICAD, the brainchild of the irrepressible Tammy of Daisy Yellow. Emotionally impossible.nope, no way, no how could I even consider joining in. Since I have a ton of painting to do in the next two months, I told myself that I couldn't possibly squeeze in one more project.