Scrolling Along

This ole scroll project has continued for almost a month. Some day are proving interesting, like yesterday's collage and colored pencil piece shown here. I'm finding I get a sense of "accomplishment" and "completion" with each day's effort. My days fill with this added thread of creativity… in addition to my other paintings. Delightful!! It's like doing "morning pages" (from the Artists' Way) but with color and glue, rather than unbridled words.

So for the others that are doing, or contemplating a project like this ... I'll be curious to hear your feedback. I think it easily could be done in a book format as well.

"Day 27", collage with colored pencil on scroll. I added prose onto the faces. I like having words represented in these.

Scroll project continued.

Here is one of my recent posts on the scroll project I'm still working on daily. It is based on my grandmother when she was young. With a middle name like Tempest, you can imagine the character she had -- and perhaps a bit of a fiery personality? I never saw a temper, just recall her as a sweet homespun farm woman with a great zest for life and always laughing. She was also an artist. Dad said when he was little, that she would invite in the Hobo's that meandered the countryside, and offer them egg sandwiches. She was always saying "Forever more!" "Fair to Middlin" and "Land Sakes Alive." As an older woman, she was part of a social group of ladies who called themselves the "Fat Club" because they would get together and eat, sharing "covered dishes" like her badada (potato) salad … but were forever trying to lose weight. A character, indeed. We still miss you Gramma!!

Grandmother as a young girl, Lilian Tempest Kelly, drawn with China Marker, ©Laura Gable

The scroll is coming along. My second strip of paper has about 3 days left, so I am scrounging to find another strip for about 10 days of effort. Any ideas??

Scroll Project (9 days effort Jan 1-9)

The scroll project is coming along. I've completed 9 days of work on the scroll, and the first roll is completed. So will start the next one today. I've got a video here where I pause and focus on each day's art expression. It's been fun to express a variety of artistic "voices" that lie dormant and sometimes need to be heard. No rules, just unroll a section for the day and have at it. I am finding also, that it has a tendency to loosen up my oil painting work, and allows me to be more expressive. So a good thing all around.

Day 9, These strips are from a 2014 daily calendar, which features master works
on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Scribbles are my masterwork ;-)

My scroll project unfurled after  9 days. Its a bit unwieldy.
Not sure if it will end up in another project. If so, will cut it apart.

The first post about this scroll is here: http://art-a-day.blogspot.com/2015/01/scroll-project-pending.html

Scroll Project

Sometimes after doing a lot of "serious" paintings, I find that I miss the "other" side of art: the messy, unexpected, creating for the sake of creating side.

I was intrigued after happening across an "art scroll" project created by Australian artist Ian Roberts. A prolific artist immersed in various projects, he was challenged to create these scrolls after meeting with an art therapist. (click his name for a link to his website).

The task is to cut a long section of paper, and scroll off a bit each day. Then just do "something" on that section. No rules, no criteria, and it doesn't have to look like anything, it is merely a creative expression for the day. The only stipulation is not to look at what you've created until the 30 days are up…. so because of that I will only post a few things I've done. In these 3 that I've already created, I find that I'm using a lot of heavy strokes and lots of black. My darkness emerges ;-)

Scroll day 3 …