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So I'm not doing an official Journal 52 challenge this year; even though I did complete the weeks for 2022, I ended up leaving them in my notebooks instead of scanning. Also. Words. Not necessarily my strong suit sometimes.

So for this year (2023) I'm just going to share random art as I get it done and scanned.

Saw some lovely work at a market and decided to try to recreate some of effects in my own preferred media. This is done with FineTec Pearlescent watercolors and gold foil.

#great blue heron #heron #watercolor #gold #gilding #cgc art tag

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Week 22: Gold 15 May 2022 — 21 May 2022

Playing around with my new set of uni-ball signo pens :) Inspired by watching "Woman in Gold" and looking at Klimt's art.

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 22 #week 22 prompt #week 22 #gold #gel pen #metallic pens #klimt

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Week 21 22 May 2022 — 28 May 2022

Prompt: mixed media piece on the highlights of your week in the form of stratigraphy!

Media includes a business card, paper cut outs, stamps, ribbon, dried plants, tickets, watercolors

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 21 #week 21 prompt #week 21 #mixed media #stratigraphy

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Week 20: Cat 15 May 2022 — 21 May 2022

Playing around with a new set of portable watercolors on cards from Viviva Colors... somehow it ended up being a cat sitting under a flowering tree.

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 20 #week 20 prompt #week 20 #cat #watercolors

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Week 19 8 May 2022 — 14 May 2022

Prompt: Sticker!

Thought I'd try combining a sticker from the lovely Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum with trying out some new Kremer pigments.

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 19 #week 19 prompt #week 19 #bamboo #cotton #sticker #watercolor #Chinese heritage

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Week 18 1 May 2022 — 7 May 2022

Prompt: Art in the style of Takehiko Inoue

The amount of movement in Takehiko Inoue's pieces is utterly phenomenal. I particularly like the very stark ink pieces. I aimed for that sketchy movement and of course picked another dancer.

This piece is based on a photo of Yannick Lebrun from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater taken for the NYC Dance Project.

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 53 week 18 #week 18 prompt #week 18 #takehiko inoue #pencil #dance #NYC dance project #Yannick Lebrun

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Week 17 24 April 2022 — 30 April 2022

Prompt: calligraphy piece of a quote from your favorite book or movie/TV show. It would be interesting if you could style the text or add sketches to the piece so that someone who doesn't know the quote can understand the context it came from.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is still one of my favorite comfort films. And yes, I do use the quote "Everybody, remember where we parked" in everyday life :D

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 17 #week 17 prompt #star trek #star trek tos #tos #star trek iv: the voyage home #calligraphy #watercolors

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Week 16 17 April 2022 — 23 April 2022

"Be a Lamp, a Lifeboat or a Ladder." -Rumi

Metallic watercolors on black mixed media paper using a brush and a pointed pen nib. The silhouette is based on a photo of Ashley Bouder, Principle, New York City Ballet, taken for The Art of Movement by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 16 #week 16 prompt #week 16 #Rumi #ballet #NYC dance project #light #watercolor #calligraphy

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Week 15: Ancestors 10 April 2022 — 16 April 2022

The quote inside the Fibonacci spiral reads: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children" -Haida

I used metallic watercolors, latex resist, and cuts of origami paper.

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 15 #week 15 prompt #week 15 #Fibonacci #spiral #watercolor #Haida #ancestors

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Week 14 3 April 2022 — 9 April 2022

“Crows will be crows, my darling.Even if they have golden tails,they will then just be golden crows.” from “The Grudge” by Yesenqul Jaqypbekis

Style of the crows inspired by First Nations art from the Pacific Northwest.

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 14 #week 14 prompt #week 14 #Yesenqul Jaqypbekis #crows #golden crows #paper craft

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INPRNT is having a 15% off sale this weekend through Sunday! I've added a few new pieces, and as always let me know if there's something you're looking for that I haven't listed yet.

(I'm also going to be working on posting my J52 work that is done but hadn't been digitized!)

#journal 52 #watercolor #journal 52 2022 #cgc art tag

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Week 13 27 March 2022 — 2 April 2022

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." --C.S. Lewis

...yes I did immediately picture a chibi in a teacup reading a book when presented with this quote...

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 13 #week 13 prompt #week 13 #cs lewis #Watercolor #chibi #teacup #book

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Week 12: Robert Frost 20 March 2022 — 26 March 2022

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #journal 52 week 12 #Week 12 #Week 12 prompt #Robert Frost #Woods #Watercolor #calligraphy

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So, I've fallen a bit behind...

But I'm still working on this challenge! Promise!

Between various travel events for work, I have been less able to do art regularly, much less scan and post it. I'm hoping to start catching up over the next few months :)

I'm also still looking for prompts--there are seventeen more slots left to fill! Feel free to message/dm me if you have ideas.

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Week 11: Ocean 13 March 2022 — 19 March 2022

I'm still learning how to do pull tabs and pop ups! Here's one of two humpback whales on a wheel that turns, allowing them to jump in and out of the water.

I think this is my favorite mechanism so far :D

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #journal 52 week 11 #week 11 prompt #week 11 #pull tab #ocean #humpback whale #art #watercolor #gouache

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Week 10: Inspired by the Art of David Mack 6 March 2022 — 12 March 2022

A friend sent me a few pieces of art by David Mack and suggested I try interpreting his style in my own and see what happened. I used an image of of PeiJu Chien-Pott for NYC Dance Project as the basis for this painting and added quotes about dancing.

It has pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, gouache and ink added in layers.

The quotes read:

"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing" — Jacques d’Amboise, American ballet dancer and choreographer

"Dance can reveal everything mysterious hidden in music" — Charles Baudelaire

"Dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.” —from Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

ID: Woman with black hair pulled back in a tight bun with gold decorations throws a red shawl/cape/fabric embroidered in gold into the air, her arms are still upraised.

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #Journal 52 week 10 #week 19 prompt #week 10 #david mack #peiju chien-pott #nyc dance project #dance #art #watercolor #gouache

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Week 9: Rain 27 February 2022 — 5 March 2022

Messed around with layering tissue and metallic gouache this week. It's amazing how dense the silver gouache needs to be to show up on such an absorbent surface!

#Journal 52 #Journal 52 2022 #journal 52 week 8 #week 8 prompt #week 8 #journal 52 week 9 #week 9 prompt #week 9 #rain