More ICAD

Well, I haven't been keeping up with the card-a-day, but I am not in the slightest bit concerned. I have enough on my plate. Still, I have been playing with the 3X5 cards, and the other night I gessoed up a bunch so they are ready to go. Here are some of the ones I did:

 For the above card, I just wanted to play with my colored pencils. Nothing crazy. I was thinking about the woman who has taken care of our son for the last two years. We really appreciate the love and car she gave our little guy. They bonded, so the goodbye has been hard.

 Playing with a new stamp and my new Stayz-On ink pad.

Just doodling.

Overwhelm

I spent almost my entire day thinking about education - developing materials for my class, participating in a school improvement meeting, and meeting with Milton Chen. All of this, the evening meeting with the educational guru Chen especially, got me really excited about educational innovation and about my classroom next year. Although it is all very exciting, it is also overwhelming at the same time. Hence, today's card.

This card is definitely very cheesy, but it's art journaling at its journalingist. (Yes, it is a word now, thank you very much.) To me, art journaling is about the process, not the final product, although I often like my final products.

Hopeful for a Renewed Meditation Practice

Tonight's card is about my desire to get back on track with meditating. There was a time when I dreaded meditating, and now I look forward to it. Despite this, I have been far too inconsistent with my practice. Our meditation at sangha tonight inspired this card:

An Index Card a Day

So I have been playing in my studio quite a bit lately. I have discovered the world of art journaling, which is good for me in that it is helping me break away from my creative rut. I am a very left-brained person, and art journaling is very right-brained, which makes this a nice break from the structured, rule-oriented person I can be.

While exploring some art journaling web sites, I discovered an index-card-a-day challenge and decided to do it for a while. I am not committing to any length of time because that would be another rule for me to follow, but I really liked the idea of something small and playful to work with. So here is my first ICAD:

So go play!