Wow, this is our 12th challenge! How has your experience been as you created your gratitude journal?
A Year of Gratitude Challenge 12
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 Twelfth Prompt
The quarantine and its accompanying masks/face coverings have really made me miss interaction with others. I miss community, I miss friends. One thing I noticed I really miss is smiles from strangers. I realized that when a stranger smiles at me, and I smile back, that it has a long-lasting effect. I am grateful for smiles from strangers, and can't wait until I can see everyone's faces again.
I made a simple and colorful collage for this prompt.
Brief description of how I created this page: I have tons of random collage fodder all over the studio right now. My desk is covered in little bits of cut up papers and pages. I grabbed some of the pieces and assembled a little collage. I used a black permanent pen to draw the face on a piece of plain collage paper, and used my original gel medium to glue it onto the collage. The green spikey element is from a Dyan Reaveley collage sheet.
- 6x6 White Journal
- White gesso
- Paint brushes
- Ultra Thick Gel Medium
- White tags
- Acrylic paint
- Gloss Sprays
- Original Gel Medium
- Black Fudeball pen
- Collage Tissue
- Dyan Reaveley Collage Sheets
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.
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