ICAD: Day 16

Way back on Day 16 of the ICAD challenge I did another steampunk drawing, which I'm just now sharing here. The prompt for that day was greeting card, so here's how I went with that:

Mail call!

I'm trying to decide what names to give my steampunk animal crew, and I have yet to come up with any that I like. If you have any suggestions, feel free to shout them out!

ICAD: Day 13

The prompt for Day 13 of the 2015 ICAD challenge was blueberry and plum. I used this primarily as inspiration for my color scheme, in a drawing yet again set in my little steampunk world of animals...

I hope you like it!

And remember, if you want to see my mixed media index cards, visit my Trash to Treasures Art blog by clicking on the tab at the top of this page!

ICAD meets Steampunk, again.

For Day #9 of the ICAD challenge, I created another steampunk, animal-lover's drawing. The prompts this week have been primarily based on color and/or food. For Day #9 the prompt was carrot and lemon. By good fortune, the cat and dog starring in my steampunk drawings are orange and yellow. Regardless, I also vaguely incorporated actual carrots and lemons into my Day #9 drawing, as you'll see here:

Can you hit the bullseye?

This piece ended up a little busier than I intended. I guess I was just having so much fun that I went a little crazy!

Happy Friday, bloggers!

ICAD: Day 6

I had some more drawing fun back on the sixth day of the ICAD challenge. The prompt was taxi, and I took a small bit of liberty with this one, as you'll see here:

All aboard!

Ever since the second day of the ICAD challenge I seem to have fallen into an animal-loving steampunk frenzy with my drawings. I created this world of steampunk animals on a whim on Day 2 of ICAD, with the prompt carnival. Remember this one?

The carnival where it all began...

Now I keep going back to that concept. In fact, I will be using today's prompt of carrot and lemon to create another drawing in this new steampunk world of mine. So, stay tuned!

ICAD #2

If you read my other blog, Trash to Treasures Art, you know that I am partaking in the 2015 ICAD (Index Card a Day) challenge for the first time this year. It started on Monday, June 1st, and I've so far managed to get a card done all of the first three days. The first day was more of a mixed media piece, so I posted it to my other blog (if you want to visit my mixed media art blog to see and read about my first index card, just click on that handy tab at the top of this blog). For the second day, I used the prompt given on the Daisy Yellow ICAD Challenge blog, and that was carnival.

After a relatively lengthy staring contest with a blank index card, an idea finally began to form in my mind. This was the result:

Welcome to the Critters' Carnival of Steampunk Fun!

It was nice to just sit down and draw for that one. I had a ton of fun with it.

I also used the prompt for the third day, yesterday, and that was to draw a map. This one was also more or less based on my drawing, but also a bit of other media. So, I'll post it here as well as on my other blog as soon as I get a decent picture of it.

If you aren't already, I recommend you give the ICAD challenge a try! It's fun fun fun!

Mixed Media Art Tags

A couple of posts ago I showed you the first ever mixed media art tag that I completed. Since then I've been experimenting with a few new products and techniques, and with these I've created some more art tags. I had a lot of fun in the process, and here are the results of that fun:

I think I've truly found a new love in creating these mixed media art tags. They allow me to create fun little drawings and experiment with fun collage techniques. What's more, I'm happy to be practicing a lot of recycling/upcycling with these, using scrap cardboard that I cut into the size and shape of tags. And the paper onto which I drew the images is simply from the pages of old books I've had sitting around for ages. Even the little decorative dots you see on the tags are recycled/upcycled, as I acquired these using nothing but my trusty hole puncher and some empty yet pretty Kleenex boxes.

I hope you like my art tags so far! I've got plenty more of them in the works, so stay tuned!

I hope all you bloggers out there are having a wonderful weekend!

Steampunk Fun

I've become very intrigued by steampunk style art lately. That being said, I recently decided to pull out my trusty pens and try my hand at this steampunk style. The verdict is that I had a lot of fun!

A steampunk starry night.

I like this steampunk style so much that I now of course have even more steampunk art in the works and in the planning stages. I'll have plenty of steampunk art -- and plenty of other art as well, for that matter -- to share with you soon!

Good night, bloggers!