Accidental Art Asks Questions + Another Completion Defeats the Crankies: More Adventures in Art Every Day Month Land

I had a cranky day. I got better by the evening, after some serious writing and watching of silly and extremely sappy holiday movies on the Hallmark Channel, but I don’t have too much completion to report because of my energy spent fussing and feeling sorry for myself.

I did, however, make some cool headway into works-in-progress. My favorite one was a complete accident. I was working on a background for a grouping of “wonky style” houses and decided I would make a glaze wash to cover one of the wood boards from the falling-apart desk.

When I went to check on it, to see if it had dried, this is what I found:

I asked this question on instagram. I thought I would ask it here, too - what do YOU see in this image?

 

 Naturally, no more “wonky style” house background. I’ll be experimenting with it a bit by photographing it and playing with printed out images. I am almost afraid to work on it directly because… well, I see what I see in the image and I don’t want to “mess it up.”

I did a couple more layers of paint on the seat of the intention stool. I painted the underside of the seat with hidden glitter paint. I want to put a secret message down there, too. Not sure what exactly, but I will know when I come to it.

I was sitting at my desk when I pulled out an envelope of letters and envelopes from my vintage mail stash. I randomly selected three envelopes. I had thought one of them would be in today’s art. Well, this is how far I got with them:

 

 

 

 

AND I took a letter out of a different-but-in-the-same-place stash and found a letter from Madeleine C. to her Aunt Bettie, practically begging Bettie to please respond, among other little tidbits of weather and school activities and the upcoming holidays. There was such a pure, wistful energy in this ninety-nine year old letter I decided it would be the focus of today.

I “married” it to an unfinished mixed media piece. It includes an acrylic on canvas background in lovely shades of green and pink. I based the colors on the handkerchief in the right corner I bought several months ago at an estate sale. There was also a costume jewelry broach on the piece. I took the ninety-nine year old letter – please don’t cringe too badly – and made a wonky house with part of it and with another part of it, I added it to this piece.

Tomorrow I will share a bit about the reasoning behind doing things like tearing up very old letters and using vintage book pages in art. There is a story behind nearly everything I do and I think I’ve written – and you’ve read – enough from me today.

I love Madeleine's words here. "Mercy, isn't the winter flying?" Another reason to love, and create with, vintage & antique mail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is happening along your adventures in Art Every Day land?

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This is me, writing in a Baltimore Park. I am sitting across the street from an apartment building where Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald once lived.

Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at First Friday each month in Downtown Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.

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