Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Why Online Challenges are Great Creativity Boosters - The 100 Day Challenge - Part 2


Hello!  Today I am sharing the art from days 21 - 40 of my participation in the second 20 days of the #100dayproject on Instagram.  A few weeks ago, I posted days 1 - 20 here.  If you follow my friend Marjie's blogyou know that she is also participating in this creativity party that began on Instagram on April 19th. Each square represents 4 days of posts on Instagram. 



The only requirement to be part of the challenge was to commit to some kind of daily creativity (writing, art, photo, cooking - whatever!).  I came up with the idea of #100daysofquirkycritters, and Marjie decided on #100daysofsmallsquares. You can find both our Instagram feeds here: Jessica's Instagram and Marjie's Instagram.




It's amazing how my designs have blossomed from simple quirky critters to an alphabet and now to numbers.  I wonder where I'll go next!




I don't think I would have ever completed this alphabet but for this challenge.  And now I've started on numbers!!



I hope you'll stay tuned to see how the rest of my alphabet shapes up.  You can jump into the challenge any time.   If you're participating in the challenge, please leave your handle and hashtag in the comments.  I'd love to see what you're doing!

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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Mucking Around in My Art Journal III


Here's the third installment of "Mucking Around" in my art journal.  No plan, no destination - just playing in my art journal with no particular goal in mind.

This art journal page started as a gelli print to which I adhered one of my "tough tissue paper" motifs from my lesson for 21Secrets (you can still purchase this "forever yours" class by the way - it's pretty amazing -- 21 artists share videos, techniques, tutorials, etc. for $98).  



The page sat idle for months, until I returned to it to experiment with using pink, a color I'm not very comfortable with.  It's wonderful what "mucking around" can lead to! 

Here's a just-over-4 minute video showing my process.  I hope you enjoy it.  



You can also watch "Mucking Around in My Art Journal III" on YouTube!


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Friday, June 17, 2016

Love for Orlando

In response to this weekend's tragic events in at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda's has established an officially-licensed merchandise site, Tee-Rico.

The proceeds from the company's "Love Is Love," t-shirt,  designed by me - Jessica Sporn (!!) -  will benefit Equality Cares in Florida to support their efforts to secure equality and justice for Florida's LGBT community. Shirts are printed by Nightsweats & T-Cells, a company 100% staffed with HIV employees for over 20 years.



The shirt comes in women's and men's sizes, and we hope to have the designs on more products soon.  

Please visit Teerico to buy the shirts and share the love.  






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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

How To Create a Stash of Background Papers

Welcome to another in my "How To" series - the second Tuesday of every month.  To see past posts click here. 


I like to set aside time to just create background papers - without any thought of when and how I'm going to use them.  It's great to have a stash of them available, so that when you're in the "zone," and you need collage elements, you don't have to stop your flow to make them.


Here's a quick and easy technique for creating background papers that will be very usable because of their subtle tone-on-tone design.  All you need is paper (I like to use good quality card stock or color copy paper), white gesso, some cosmetic sponges, a paintbrush, baby wipes, some stamps and black archival ink.  (Check out all my favorite products here.)

Here's an under-5-minute video showing the process!



This way, you'll have all the supplies you need when your muse is visiting and you're creating!   Here are two art journal pages I created with my papers and punches.

 

I hope this tutorial is helpful to you, and that you'll check back again for more in the "how to" series!

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Stencil Test Drive Redux #8 - Jump for Joy

Welcome to the 8th Stencil Test Drive Redux!  (See all the test drives here.)

GIVEAWAY ALERT!  Each month, I will give away one of the featured stencils to one randomly chosen person.  All you need to do is post a comment below. Comments for the giveaway will close on Monday at 9PM EST, and the winner will be posted in this post by Tuesday morning 10AM EST, so make sure to check back!    

This week - a look back at the Jump for Joy Stencil Test Drive. Here's a peek at one of my projects from that Test Drive and the Jump for Joy Stencil itself!

 


Here are the amazing projects from the artists on that original test drive. Click the names below the images to go to the original blog posts.  The tutorials are fantastic.






I hope you'll check out all of these posts and the great tutorials they have!  Thank you again to all the artists who participated!
And although not part of the original test drive, I wanted to share these awesome tags by artist Lisa Dobry!

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