Texas Fight

 12/09/20

8x6 art journal with paint marker

Patriot Art. 20 for 2020. Red White and Blue.

07/04/20
Various sizes mixed media

Summer in Texas

7/12/14
36x36 collage and acrylic on canvas

Summer in Texas

Today's collage shows all quadrants together that were featured in earlier posts.  

Summer Heat Quadrant

7/12/14
18x24 collage on paper

Summer Heat Quadrant

Today's collage is the upper right quadrant of a larger piece (more to come later).   I thought the baked yellows and golds suited my mood today... hot July in Texas. 

Day 260 Hearts of Texas

Day 260 Hearts of Texas

260:365

06/17/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “Everyone 
I meet today has my best interests at heart.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   How now brown cow. Work only with brown materials today.

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Magazine photos, Glue stick, Sharpie

Time:  1H

Comments:  Today's collage is a study in brown and iconic Texas images.   
I liked the Anniversary flour sack celebrating 175 years of Texas.  Reminds me that I just marked the 7 year Anniversary in my current job.  

Since I live and work in Texas, there's a pretty good chance that everyone I meet today is here.  Everyone I meet having my best interests at heart, however, may be more an exercise in belief on my part.  At my job, they call it "assuming positive intent".  Makes a interesting game to observe and wonder in day to day interactions.    

Day 92 Good news for the new year

092:365

Day 92 Good news for the new year

12/31/12

Louise Hay affirmation:   “In my life, all is perfect, whole, and complete, and yet life is ever changing.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Write a letter to yourself at another time in your life (past or future).

Media:  1963 Fort Worth Star Telegram, Scrapbook paper, Trace paper, Parchment, Metallic Sharpie, Wax seal, Mod Podge

Time:  1H:30M

Comments:  Rounded out the year, and my first three full months of this collage-a-day project, with a letter to myself using today's affirmation.  

Used the back page of a Nov. 23, 1963 newspaper for the background.  Funny how many things in the paper reflected aspects of me today.  

• Furniture ads and Building Made Easy articles (much of my career focus), 
• Eyeglass ads (I just grudgingly bought a new pair of reading glasses and had to work hard for a good price on the no-frills models), 
• Christmas craft project articles (just coming out of two weeks off work during the holidays where I got to focus on art projects that I normally don't have time for), 
• Great deals and discounts (one of my joys in life), 
• Mattress ads (restful sleep eludes me more than I care to admit), 
• An article about how Rep. Jim Wright was revealing corruption and abuse in the Interstate Highway building project in Texas.  (I met him once in the 80's, and remember that he put me off by denegrating 'tree huggers' in our brief conversation.  Came across as a closed minded, arrogant, and elitist politician.  Nice to see that he was out there fighting corruption and injustice in the public trust in his earlier years.  Maybe I just caught him on a bad day.) 

If all those aspects of my life today can be stated as perfect, whole, and complete, then I guess the new year will hold some interesting insights for me too.  

Links for more info:   
http://www.star-telegram.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Wright

Day 91 Map my route

091:365

12/30/12

Day 91 Map my route

Louise Hay affirmation:   “All is well in my world.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Use dry coffee beans, dry or wet coffee grounds or even liquid coffee to create something today.

Media:  Texas map, Magazine photo, Mod Podge, Coffee

Time:   1H:55M + coffee drying time

Comments:  Played with scale a bit with the horizontal strips of map wallpaper in the photo and the horizontal strips of background map that I added.  Love the simplicity of the airplane toy on the classic orange, wood chair in the image.   Learned that coffee doesn’t soak well through Mod Podge.  Need to add it before sealing the surface.

 

Day 78 Jumping for joy

078:365

12/17/12

Day 78 Jumping for joy

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I move forward with confidence and joy, knowing that all is well in my future.” (lower leg)

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Make up a name and write a back story for a stranger you see today. 

Media:  Magazine photos, Map, Stamps, Parking ticket, Ruler, Mod Podge

Time:   50M

Comments:  This bounding pup is living confidence and joy in all his travels.  His excitement makes me happy.  No back story, he's too busy moving forward. 

Day 21 Texas treehugger

Day 21 Texas treehugger  

021:365

10/21/12

Louise Hay affirmation:   “Love and peace and joy are what I know.” (liver)

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:  Write a ten-word love story.  Bonus: Illustrate it!

Media:  Map of Texas, magazine photos, matte medium

Time:   1H:40M

Comments:  This collage is as much a reminder as an acknowledgement of place.  The neighborhood where we live has many oak trees and is a huge part of why we chose the house we're in.  The beauty and peacefulness of nature in the neighborhood is an oasis within the larger metropolitan area.  The challenge is to stay aware of it.  

The liver is said to be the seat of anger and resentment.  

I wonder if, every time I experienced anger and resentment (not uncommon for me) I hugged a tree and reminded myself to feel love and peace and joy, what would be the outcome physically, mentally, and emotionally?   

I used some leaves that are starting to fall in my back yard as templates for the leaves here.