Tea and art

Happy Tuesday everyone Today I have so many art pictures to share with you.

First, let me tell you that I'm having my usual cup of green tea today.Linking my cup of tea and art with Elizabeth at  T stands for Tuesday     .

The above page is from my daily journal which is also my 2016 DLP. This year the original DLP is created in a binder. But I chose to do it in my usual style, in a journal. On the left I added a cardstock and wrote my daily to do's and the normal day to day stuff. The middle page has the January calendar. On the right I did a collage page.

The DLP had prompts on doing an art card, a tag and the theme was to 'try something new in our page'

I did a water color and collage art card and a tag from recycled brown paper bag. I adhered both on my calendar page.

I have never used my water color images on my mixed media pages. I did a background using glimmer mist and Dylusion spray. Added modeling paste for texture and adhered the bike and windows watercolor images to the page. I completed it with a butterfly mask and outlined it with the black and white twine. Love how it has come out. 

The exciting part of doing a mixed media piece is you never know what the outcome can be. I'm totally in  love with this result-:)

Another project I'm totally in love with is the 31 Day Drawing Challenge by Lisa Congdon. Pen or Pencil sketches are not my thing but this projeCT has now become a favorite of mine. 

Day-5 Roses

Day-6 Sneakers 

Day -7 Pitchers

Day -8Cats

Day -9 Birds

Day-10 Mushrooms 

Day -11 Brooms

The  third challenge I'm in for this month is Lisa Sonora's 31 Day art journal. This one is also a great project. But, sadly I could not keep up with it as I'm also busy with a bigger project this month. I will share more on it in the next month-:)

I finished only till Day -6. But I'm not leaving this project. Hopefully, I'll try to finish it atleast by February.

Day-5

This is my take on what happens when problems overwhelm me...

Day-6 was all about self conciousness and how it can ruin our art

If you have come till here, Thank you so much for going through my art and always encouraging me with your kind words. Thank you Elizabeth for hosting this wonderful community of Tea lovers-:) We are all able to share and see so many new things here, all thanks to you.

Wishing you all a happy week 

Hugs

Susan 

Happy 2016

Day-2 Teacups 

Happy New Year to all my 'Tea' friends at Elizabeth's  T stands for Tuesday 

Today, I m sharing my sketches of different types of tea cups here.

I have signed up for various challenges in January. One of them is Lisa Congdon's 30 Day Drawing Challenge.  She has given 30 different themes and everyday we can create various sketches on the given topic.

Day-1 Trees

I basically took up this challenge for the fun of it. There is no stress for perfection here. Also, I don't have to commit so much time for this each day.

 Day-3 Chairs This was a difficult task for me. I'm not at all comfortable with perspective drawing.

Day-4 Leaves I colored them with my new set of QoR watercolors.

Another challenge for this month is Lisa Sonora's 30 Day Journal Project. Every year she does this free project and this is my third time. I'm a 'quote' girl and in this project Lisa, shares meaningful quotes from other artists and inspires us to write with h er own prompts.

Day-1 

Day-2

Day-3

 Day-4

I've chosen collage medium for this project. I've so many left over pattern papers and painted sheets. This is a great way to use them.

Apart from these two projects, I've also joined for Jennifer  Frith's year long , The Gratitude  52 Sketchbook Project http://www.jennys-sketchbook.com and The Documented Life Project 2016: the unplanner.

Too many right:-) Well, the first two will get over by the end of this month, still I'm a big fan of challenges and will try to take part in them in anyway I can.

Do you have any  new challenges that you know of?

Have a wonderful week 

Susan