The month of June is bringing us to a challenging place. If you are hurting or anxious in this time, I understand. I hope that this challenge is a little bit of healing balm in all of the uncertainty.
A Year of Gratitude Challenge 10
To read more about the power of gratitude, visit my original blog post here.
How To Participate
- Check my blog and Ranger's blog each month for the prompt.
- Create a piece of art inspired by the prompt.
- Post your art anytime during the month on Facebook and/or Instagram, using the hashtag #showusyourMEdia
- Full challenge rules are at the bottom of this post.
The Ninth Prompt
I am grateful for second chances. And third chances. And fourth.... I love being able to try again, to do better in all aspects of life, from art to relationships to hobbies to work responsibilities. Let's extend some grace to ourselves, to allow ourselves to make imperfect art (and imperfect decisions), and to try again and do better. The point, really, is to never stop trying. Never give up.
Brief description of how I created this page: The face on the page is one of the faces that I did during my free live demo, "Overpainting a Photo." I created a background with Sky blue paint and Scribble Sticks. Then I added the face with gel medium. I wrote words on plain Collage tissue with a Sharpie and used Gel Medium to glue them in. I create a painted paper collaged tag and taped it in with white Media tape. Then I journaled with the Fudeball pen on the back of the tag.
- 6x6 White Journal
- White gesso
- Acrylic paint in Sky
- Paint brushes
- Ultra Thick Gel Medium
- Black Fudeball pen
- Plain Collage Paper Tissue
- White Media Tape
Challenge Rules Recap
I want to put the “me” back in mixed media. All art is personal, whether it be a card or an art journal page or a painting. Join me as we begin a series of monthly challenges and prompts that will fuel your creative spirit and help you delve into the ME of MEdia.
- We will announce monthly challenges on the Ranger blog on the first Wednesday of each month.
- Use at least one Dina Wakley Media product in your project. If your product is not obvious (like paint), please list the colors you used.
- You can make anything you like—a card, an art journal page, a tag, a canvas, anything!
- Interpret each challenge any way you like. You can be literal or you can use it as a springboard and see where it takes you. Let the challenge inspire you and stretch you.
- Try to journal on your piece. Write your thoughts about each prompt. You can write a little or you can write a lot, but do your best to incorporate your thoughts and feelings into the piece.
- When you complete a challenge, please share it on your blog and personal social media account(s) (Instagram/Facebook) with the tags #showusyourMEdia and #rangerink. When you share on your personal FB page, be sure to make the post public so that it shows up in our hashtag search. You can share in the art groups, too, but those posts don't show up in the searches if the groups are closed or private.
- We will do two random drawings each month for a prize. We will search the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on Instagram for one winner, and then on Facebook for the second winner. To be clear, you must use the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on either Instagram or Facebook in order to show up in the search and to be eligible to win. You have until the first Tuesday of each month to complete the previous month’s challenge.
- We will announce the previous month’s winner AND the new challenge on the first Wednesday of each month.
Note this challenge does not take the place of the monthly challenges we have in the Dina Wakley Media Tribe Facebook group. If you're not a member of the tribe, please join us! Artists in the group post lots of cool art and inspiration.