Odds and Ends form 2023

Hey, 

Still here. Been awhile. No problems, just staying busy, but not feeling very chatty.  But I'll catch you up on some of  other things I did in 2023.

My last post was in July 2023 and I had posted an update for 2022/2023 in  February 2023. But what did I do in the other 9 months of 2023?  Well, that's a bunch of stuff to write about and a lot of it was hobby activities I don't usually mention. Basically 2023 was a random collection of small new craft projects, unfinished older projects and several all digital projects, things like photo archive management, digital fabric designs, and formatting and printing photo books. 

In February I was sorting, organizing and cleaning up stuff in my craft room and got completely side-tracked on a spur-of-the- moment mixed-media project to use up an overabundance of collected security envelopes and some painted canvas.

 

 

And while I was at it I made a few more books.

 In March I finished a collection of Mixed Media collages that I'd neglected for a very long time.

 

In April I finished the Plaidish Quilt I started in 2022.  I love the colors, it makes me happy every time I see it.

 

By May I'm busy with gardening and digital projects, continuing to do acrylic painting in sketchbook every day and doing a few other bookbinding projects.

These are painted canvas paper thin sketchbooks.

 

And my last "big" project for 2023 was another spur-of-the-moment project that took about 6 weeks and also came out of a "cleaning things up" effort with all my art supplies.  I call it my Palette Paint Transfer project. You know all that excess paint that ends up on palette paper, or in my case also on big pieces of freezer paper that I put under artwork and I save all those papers. ... just because I might find a way to use them... well, I used them.

And this is what I made:

Thanks for reading.

Aileen