Art Calendar Challenge 2011 - February

The Art Calendar Challenge is hosted by Kate at the Kathryn Wheel. You make a calendar page each month and every day you write something on it to reflect that day.

I have the base of my February page ready! My theme is Imbolc, the sabbat that is celebrated on February 2nd in some of the pagan beliefs. The page still looks barren now. I wanted to do a lamb theme since that is one of the aspects of Imbolc and lambs are cute! However it seems that I didn't have much lambs laying around. I couldn't print some as well since the printer is acting weird and my BF haven't found the time to fix it yet. So I will present this page to you barren, and it will come alive as the month passes by. This too fits the theme of Imbolc.

This time I did the background with gouage. I didn't use a brush but a sponge. I mixed this shade of green using basic green, with yellow and white. The letters are stamped. It are Sophie Caps stamps by the Paper Studio and the numbers are from the same Sophie font but the lower case set.

Here is my finished January page :) It looks much more colorful then the new page. This is also because I used colored ink there, but my book didn't like that so much and I also need the book for my school assignments. I do not mind that the book is being used, but this did quite some damage to the underlying pages. Besides, it is fun to see the effect from different kind of paints. It helps me with expanding my knowledge on how different paints react :)

If you want to see more calendar pages, please visit the flickr group :)

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10 creative goals in 2011

I stumbled across a Dutch blog about setting 10 creative goals for 2011 and post about them. I joined up, but next to blogging about it there, I will of course blog about it here as well :)

This is my list:

1.  My art calendar 2011(Make a page a month)
2.  A banner for my blog(s)
3.  Learn how to make collages with acrylic paint combined with fabric & paper.
4.  Making more labels
5. Paint & stamp on wooden boxes
6.  Finish my Goomba mosaic
7. Complete my school year successfully (since I am following a creative education
8. Follow creative but cheap(!) workshops (and maybe give them too but this could easily be 2012)
9. Make a spiritual painting for every sabbat
10. Find out where and how I can print my own cards.

So that's it :) It was hard to choose only 10, since I want to do so much more ;) 

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