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Day 57: Mixing it up a bit! Playing with yarn.<\/strong>
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\nThis yarn winding session turned into a full scale stash reorganization. I loved it! It also made me want to ditch the art stuff and play with yarn exclusively for a while.<\/p>\n

Day 58: Started a set of rainbow inchies. Yes, that’s a technical artist term.<\/strong>
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\nDay 59: Sadly my photo treatment of these little guys is better than the actual work. They’re headed to the trash.<\/strong>
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\nSometimes things just don’t work out. These little guys made me think I need remedial stamping classes because I mangled it so badly. Truly, the best thing about them are the photos I took. Oh well, moving on.<\/p>\n

Day 60: Quick ATC tonight and I am off to take my own advice! <\/strong>
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\nI had no idea how this would turn out. The paper is silver reflective. I stamped it and then painted it. It was short and sweet to make. Exactly what I needed after the long day I had.<\/p>\n

Day 61: Too much likes previous day? Maybe I need new colors?<\/strong>
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\nDay 62: This is why you tape the watercolor paper down. Back of the blue paper.<\/strong>
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\nDay 63: Making a book out of the green\/blue page. I’ll entertain suggestions as to what to put in it.<\/strong>
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\nI like making books out of this watercolor paper. We’ll see what it turns into next week!<\/p>\n

Thoughts from the week:<\/strong>
\nI’ve been thinking a lot about the artist community that has sprung up around me as I work on this year long project. I’ve mentioned Mary<\/a> here before. While she and I don’t practice the same sort of art (she’s a musician) I find my chats with her on creativity and the process of creativity line up nicely regardless of which art we are discussing. I did some design work for her last fall and she introduced me to Starr Weems<\/a>. Starr did the amazing artwork for Mary’s last album. And I have a bit of working artist crush on her at the moment. The three of us met for lunch one day and formed the Vague Coffee Wavers. I’m pretty sure that’s the name of the artist commune we will start if we ever get around to it. I also have Ren\u00c3\u00a9e<\/a>, who is working on a project quite similar to mine in scope but she’s abstaining from the Twitter\/Facebook\/blog attention seeking that I seem to be engaging in at present. It’s a nice group of women that I enjoy checking in with to see what they are working on. It reminds me a bit of college and my studio classes. I loved being able to come together as a group and work on our individual pieces and then take a step back and talk about what everyone was doing and then offer suggestions. The brainstorming was so valuable to me! It helped me learn to creatively visually problem solve.<\/p>\n

Next week I start a letterpress class at our local Printmaking Collective<\/a>. Amy<\/a> and I will be going the next three Thursdays to class, so those days will feature some prints! I’m absurdly excited about it. Here’s to finding more artists for the collective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 57: Mixing it up a bit! Playing with yarn. This yarn winding session turned into a full scale stash reorganization. I loved it! It also made me want to ditch the art stuff and play with yarn exclusively for a while. Day 58: Started a set of rainbow inchies. Yes, that’s a technical artist … Continue reading Week 9 of Making Something Every day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t