Monday, December 27, 2010

January Challenge

I've discovered that my friend Joyce loves ATCs and mixed media as much as I do. She's also a book-buyer, and has a great collection of art books, a lot of which we have the same. Do you ever feel like you buy art technique books but you never seem to make anything from them? I read them, and pore over them, but don't always try the techniques. Well one of them that I've been reading over and over is The Artistic Mother by Shona Cole.


(obviously I grabbed this photo from Amazon. I don't know how to get the "look inside" logo off of it)

I'm taking the plunge -- Joyce and I will be doing the project on page 87 -- The Butterfly Reminder. We won't talk about it, we'll just do the projects separately and see how we each modify or interpret it.

Would you like to join in on our challenge? We're giving ourselves a February 1st deadline, and we'll post our photos here. If you make a page 87 project, send me your photos. I'd love to see them.

3 comments:

Jess said...

Good luck!!! I know it will be beautiful!!!

Joyce's Journey said...

I love this idea of yours for us, Suzanne! I can't wait to get started. We will have a wonderful, artistic 2011!!

Jodene Shaw said...

Oh, you will love doing it! I did it in October and posted it here: http://jodeneshaw.blogspot.com/2010/10/artistic-mother-project-week-5.html

I have been working thru the projects and that was the last one that I did...but I have learned new techniques and inspiration.

Have fun, Suzanne! I can't wait to see how they turn out!