This piece has been the most fun headache I have ever created.
First I applied all the pen & ink work as I would my normal works I create.
Now I am applying all the simple watercolor washes throughout the piece in preparation of the Scratch Art portion of this piece.

As for Republic Arts Council “Mining the Arts” Festival the members continue to set up vendors, musicians and other entertainment.
The Township has been so helpful. We will have Main street closed along with connected side streets so everyone can walk freely without fear of vehicles. The few local businesses are readying themselves.
My biggest fear is the Artists and Craftpersons showing up.
These past 30 days of The 100 Day Project have been the busiest of my life and I know will get more and more hectic.
God help us 🙂

It’s finally snowing in Illinois! This makes me think wistfully of the northern woods and bogs. One of the mammals on my list to illustrate for the game Evolve! happened to be the gray wolf, Canis lupis. I doubt I’ll see any wolf prints in the snow this far south, but one can always hope.

I am exploring the shape of houses and other architectural motifs though collage and mixed media.

Well– fits and starts or ebb and flows– this is was what came out of that experience.

I am really enjoying The 100 Day Project. I am at my bench, even if its only for a few minutes, every day. It helps to set out the materials for the next day before I leave the bench. Ideas are flowing and the textures are showing up in my jewelry. I anneal my copper pieces ahead of time, in batches of twelve, so they are ready to use.

I was curious about using some embossing and etching dies I had. The first nine dies are meant for metal. I liked the embossing but not the etching dies. I ran them through a Cuttlebug machine (meant to be used for embossing paper for greeting cards) and they worked. I didn’t want to run the plastic dies that are meant for the Cuttlebug through my rolling mill – thought they might smush. So on day 20 I tried a plastic die, with metal, in the Cuttlebug and it worked without smushing it, which means I can use it over and over!