Creative Color Challenge and Day 28 AEDM

AEDM Day 28

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

Today I'm also participating in Louise Gale's Creative Color Challenge for November.  Each month Louise gives us a color palette to play with during the month. I just love the warm colors she gave us this time.

On Day 6 of AEDM I shared this piece of leaf art. Created with watercolors, inspired by the maple leaves of Central Park.

I decided to make a mobile out of them. Originally I was going to take them to my office, I still might, but for now they hang on my closet doors near my bed.

By the way, at the suggestion of a dear friend, I did not cut up my original watercolor. I photocopied it, cut the leaves out, and simply strung them with thread.

Thanks, Louise for the color inspiration and this month's challenge. Also, thanks to Deborah Velásquez for the mobile inspiration.

Hop over to AEDM and Louise Gale's site to visit a few other creative souls today.

As always, thanks for stopping by.

Doodle in color...

AEDM Day 24

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

Just a little doodle with watercolors...

Now to work on my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project. 

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

Leaf Doodles

AEDM Day 18

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

Doodling with a black sharpie is a great way to relax.
While we watched a movie last night I doodled.

I'm still stuck on leaves...don't worry, it may change to snowflakes soon.

I also created a simple repeat line pattern. I've decided that I want to create the line pattern with watercolors. 

I hope your Sunday is relaxing.

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

Leaves, Leaves, and More Leaves

AEDM Day 17

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

Recent walks in Central Park have produced some really great photos of leaves, color, and texture. I can get lost for hours playing in the park with my camera.

And, it reminds me that sometimes the little things that bring hours of joy. My camera, time, the beauty of nature. I must have touched hundreds of leaves that day. I took over 500 photos - most of which aren't very good, but I still am in awe of the beauty that I was able to capture.

I hope that you can pause today and enjoy the world around you.

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

Artful Packaging and Inspired While Voting

AEDM Day 7

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

Last night, after waiting in a very long line to vote and working at my crazy day job, I came home wondering what I was going to do for AEDM. Well, remember that journal I created last week? If you missed it you can find it here.

I decided to wrap the journal and box it up for shipping. I had to add some beauty to the wrapping paper. I took brown paper and drew some white leaves. I also addressed a card and embellished the envelope.  The other envelope is being sent to another admirer who has been waiting patiently.

Here is another view of the back of the envelopes.

I love to send snailmail to people, especially when the person who is on the receiving end has no idea that it is being sent (i.e. the journal recipient).

My other creative adventure yesterday was inspired while voting.

If you follow me on Instagram you saw the photo below yesterday. (You also saw the photo of the line I stood in.) I voted yesterday and waited in line for over 2 hours. When I received my ballot they also gave me a legal sized file folder to help keep the ballot from being damaged. As I approached the last of the 3 lines, which was also the longest, I got upset. I was shocked that in a day in age when I can order food on my food, post pictures in seconds, and check in for flight using my phone that I still had to fill out a paper ballot and stand in line to scan it. Seriously, America, we need to make this easier! So, I chose to take the opportunity to draw while I waited.

Growing up in a small town in Wisconsin meant that voting was done in the community center, you usually could walk in and out in less than 5 minutes, and as a child you went with your parents. My drawing below is honestly of people who were standing in front of my yesterday but placed in the kind of voting booth that I remember from my childhood. Yes, it had a curtain.

By the way, I kept the file folder. I'd like to think that I liberated it and saved from the landfill. It currently hangs on my day job wall.

By the way you can find me on Instagram as lorimoonstudio - hope to see you there.

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

Leaves...AEDM

AEDM Day 6

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

I've decided that my day job office needs a little art. 

I've created an entire 9 x 12 page of leaves. I painted a background using watercolors and then with my favorite tiny brush I sketched maple leaves all over it. 

I remembered that fellow artist and friend, Deborah Velásquez had created a mobile during my May Flower Challenge and I've decided that this is what I am going to do with my leaves.

I will paint the back side of the paper then cut out the leaves and string then together. I'll share the mobile once I hang it up. Also, a few will end up in my Sketchbook Project sketchbook. 

By the way, I'd love to hear your suggestions about how and what you create when you travel with very little time. Hmmm, maybe I can doodle during the conference. I am on the road all next week for the day job (sleeping in my own bed 1 of 4 work nights). Oh, and it is a combo of planes, trains, and automobiles. 

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

Sketching with Watercolors - AEDM Day 2

AEDM Day 2

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc. Moving forward I'll post each morning what I created the previous day (I know that my crazy day job can't stay closed forever). 

In the meantime, I love to sketch using watercolors and a tiny brush. I love how holding the brush and moving the paint is different than using a marker or a micron pen. Smoother.

Leaves: Watercolor Sketch                                                        (c) 2012 Lori Moon

These are tiny leaves that I picked up during a walk in Central Park last weekend, pre-hurricane.

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

October Color Challenge

Blogtoberfest Day 28...I fell off the wagon for a few days.

I'm linking up with Louise Gale's monthly Color Challenge.
This month color challenge was woodgrain. I love browns so I enjoyed this and found that I wanted to use brown often.

If you've been following along this month you may have noticed that I'm a little obsessed with leaves lately. I am having so much fun drawing, doodling, painting, stamping, etc.

I was inspired to use a large oak leaf and my watercolors to stamp.

I painted the back of each leaf with  watercolors and pressed the leaf to the paper. Depending on the look you want you may want to dry each one as you go.

I then created an abstract painting using the same technique. 

                     

I love how the abstract turned out. The lines, the pattern - it reminds me of aspen trees in the snow.

During a walk in Central park yesterday I collected very small leaves and will be creating more leaf art today. Be sure and visit and see what else I create.

Visit Louise's website to see all the wonderful art that was created with this color combination.

My Latest Obsession...White on Black

I hope you aren't tired of seeing leaves.

This time of year I get a little obsessed with them.

I'm also in love with white on black or white on chocolate brown.

Yesterday while out during my lunch break I picked up leaves. All afternoon I thought about getting home to my black paper and white gel pen.  I love it when something sparks like that and I know that I just have to get it out.

I hope your day is filled with things that spark creativity.

WOYWW - Leaves

Blogtoberfest: Day 17
(blogging every day during the month of October)


I'm linking up with Julia at Stamping-Ground today for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW).

Well, my desk kind of looks the same, but I live in 320 square feet, and I haven't found a home for everything I bought with I visited my parents. So, to use my desk I just move piles off and put them back. I'm sure that my desk will look like this for a few weeks.

At the top of the picture above is a collage that I made for a page in the Sketchbook Project journal that  I am doing. Simply made out of origami paper.

Over the weekend I created art from leaves. 

Sketching...

and stamping by painting the back of the leaf with watercolors and pressing it to paper. 

Here I stamped and sketched...

Autumn Leaf Stamping           http://lorimoonstudio.blogspot.com  (c) 2012 Lori Moon

And, here is a glimpse at one of the pieces that I worked on for Louise Gale's Creative Color Challenge for October. You'll have to stop back on the 28th or 29th of this month to see more of this. 

Hop over to Stamping Ground and check out a few other desks.

As always, thanks for stopping by, leave a little love in the comments section.

Tidbit Tuesday

Blogtoberfest: Day 16

A few little tidbits about me...

I prefer to walk in the park than go to Times Square.

I wish I had walls and doors to divide my living space. (I live in a 320 sq. ft. studio apartment.)

I enjoy museums and prefer not to rush through them.

I can sit for hours (with a good cup of coffee) and people watch. I secretly make up stories about the people that walk past me.

I long to travel the world with my camera and Superman.

There is something that I love about the smell of Autumn.

Tell me a little bit about yourself in the comments.

Leaves and a Plan to Make Art

Blogtoberfest: Day 13

Today I plan to create some art. I collected leaves while visiting my parents with the idea that I would stamp with them using watercolors the day before I left. However, I spent the day fixing jewelry for friends and family. 

I brought the leaves back with me between the pages of a book.

So, today I plan to stamp using them with watercolors.

This reminds me that I also want to use a Ginkgo tree leaf...I'll have to bundle up to get one this morning. It is cold outside today in the Northeast. Brrrr, winter is around the corner.

Check back later this week for a peek at what I created.