daily janes

8.5×5.5″ acrylic on paper

Another combination of scraping, knifing, and block-printing with acrylic paint. I cut a new block of the larger circles that I used to print on this piece.

8.5×5.5″ acrylic, collage

I used a combination of scraping and knifing acrylic paint on this watercolor paper. For the collaged part, I used the outline of a heart cut out from a long-ago Valentines’ craft project with a niece (melting crayon shavings between wax paper with an iron). The collaging was a late addition. It just felt like it needed something more. After adding it, I kept putting down additional paint lines.

After I titled this, all I could think of was the Rolling Stones song of the same name. It doesn’t really fit what I was thinking/feeling for this work, but the title word came before the music memory arrived, so I’m not surprised.

4×4″ marker, watercolor pencils on paper

For this doodle, I began with watercolor pencils, then added some marker lines both over and under more watercolor pencil work.

4×4″ marker, watercolor pencil on paper

Here is today’s doodle—the daily doodle. I could have called this blog the daily doodle. Too late now. For this, I started out using a glass as a template to make the circle, and the edge of a calendar to make the straight lines in from the corners to the edge of the circle. The rest of the drawing is freehand doodling. Try it—you might have fun!

8×6″ acrylic, collage

Someone told me recently that they liked seeing my daily janes—that they didn’t always understand them, but they still liked some of them. Well, I don’t always understand them, either. (And I don’t always like them, but that’s another story.) Today’s daily is a case in point. I don’t know why I picked these things to collage onto this painting, and why I made the marks I did. But, it just seemed right for some reason, so I followed the idea. Strange little piece.

5.5×8.5″ acrylic on paper

Sometimes I keep adding paint or finishes and it goes too far and it’s lost. Sometimes the last thing adds flair or makes it redeemable. The blockprinting in red is what made this for me. Then I started seeing animals and other images in what used to be a sea of nothingness. You may still see a sea of nothingness, and that’s okay, too!

9×7.25″ acrylic on matboard

This scraped painting is on a matboard that has another scraped painting on the other side. I’m not sure this one is any more successful, but it’s going up!

8.5×5.5″ acrylic on paper

This went very wrong at one point, and I have tried to bring it back from the edge with some over-painting and printing.

Another month is at an end, and my one-year daily-jane commitment has one more month to go. It is difficult to believe in some ways, and it seems I have been doing this forever in other ways. Thirty-one more daily artworks. Stay tuned.

6×6″ acrylic

This piece is all acrylic paint, but applied in different ways. It was scraped, brushed, palette-knifed, dried and adhered, and block-printed. The dried paint swirl that is collaged on is leftover from the circle “print” tool I used on the November 20 daily jane.