#AEDM2015 Day 5Homemade mini books

  

#Aedm2015 Day 4. I started this earlier today but didn’t get a chance to finish it. But that’s ok because Art Every Day Month is more relaxed and because it is a holiday month, It’s about squeezing in creating art as best as you can. I will finish this this another day and it will count toward being creative that day, too.What caught my eye? The Tree. I have to finish this before the golden leaves fall off.

  

This is a plein air painting I started but it’s still needs a few details before I can say it is finished.

  

Here’s my AEDM Day 2. I wasn’t happy with the two books I did yesterday so I pulled them part and added two more folios to each signature. They are a little more sturdy now. I made two more books today and that should take care of of what I need for a while.I added more folios to the pink and blue book before I stitched it and the larger 5×7 book has 140lb watercolor paper so that book definitely did not need more paper.

So here are the four of them together.

#aedm2015 

  

 Art Every Day Month (AEDM)….everything creative counts! I stitched these two homemade sketchbooks today….I also sketched but I am showing these to make a point that any act of creativity counts 

Last but not least…. #Inktober Day 31……
  

Here is today’s plein air painting. My friend Joan and I went to a farm/produce stand in Eastport. When I realized that I could be losing my subjects due to sale, I had to quickly get them done before they went bye-bye. The skinny yellow one in the back had this huge stem for such a skinny pumpkin. The owner and staff were baking on the premises and OMIGOD it smelled awesome.
   
 
Also, Inktober Day 30

  

#Inktober Day 29….the only bad thing about this month is my 31 total sketches are scattered through several sketchbooks
   

 And also my plein air painting from today

  
#Inktober Day 28. I forgot that Zentangles count!

This is a plein air study I did today and my Inktober (Day 27) submissions are the three thumbnails done in, you guessed it, ink. I am submitting them because although they aren’t the glamorous ink counterparts, thumbnail studies are the tugboat of the art world….they are small, look insignificant but they pull a heavy load by being a supporting cast to a finished painting. As you can see if he three studies, my first visions of the painting I had in mind changed with the third thumbnail and I liked it so much it became the finished product.