Index Card a Day and 2025 Solo Exhibition Preparations

04 Sunday Aug 2024

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, art class, Art on Exhibit

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100 Mandalas, Art, botanical art, botanical collage, collage, Daily Art Practice, floral art, floral mandala, floral still life, flower art, flower collage, flower mandala, ICAD, Index Card Art, Mandala, Small works, still life, Zentangle Inspired Art, ZIA

Index Card a Day is an Instagram challenge intended to encourage a daily art practice. I have a pretty robust daily art practice and this year I created some small works on index cards for this challenge. Some are Zentangled, some are collaged, one is stitched and many include practice components for pieces that I am working on. I frequently use these index cards either on a plain book page or as part of a collage to create a note card for friends and family, as seen in the first photo.

Can you see components from these 2 mandalas in the index cards? I have a new solo exhibition scheduled for 2025 at the Art Hub in Cambridge. It is going to include 100 mandalas, some old and some new. These 2 are going to be part of that show if they don’t sell before then. I currently have 5 pieces in the $100 and Under show at the Art Hub this August and 3 of them are mandalas. I also have a prototype from a still life class I will be offering in October and a block print in that show.

So if you are in the market for some affordable art, head on over!

100 Day Project Wrap Up

03 Monday Jun 2024

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in 100 Day Project, Art

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100 Day Project, 100 Mandalas, Art, block print, block printing, block prints, blue block prints, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, botanical prints, collage, colorful, Colorful art, floral art, floral still life, flower art, handcarved blocks, handcarved stamps, handmade cards, Mandala, seed of life, seed of life mandala

I finished the 100 day project again this year and felt it was my most successful one ever. This amazing set of torus mandala and seed of life mandala blocks and some coordinating center blocks will entertain me for years to come. Would you be interested in playing with one of the different sized sets? What size? Which combinations do you like best?

Here are the prints I made using these blocks and a page of sampler prints of my medium sized torus mandala. To see the development and samplers for the small and large torus mandalas and the seed of life mandalas see my previous post.

Still life pieces made by mixing and matching gelli printed papers and book pages snuck into all the mandala printing. I carved leaf and flower blocks and a block print template to make the different components. I plan to teach this as a class that can be easily modified for differing ability levels. I’m also thinking about putting these samples up for sale in a local gallery for $25 each. (details to follow)

I love to make cards with my blocks and here are some quick thank you cards I made. One of my goals was to print on fabric by the end of the 100 day project and I was successful in that I did make an attempt. It was a good learning experience and shows that I have plenty more to explore with block printing!

Let me know if you have a favorite piece or want prints of something from my Fine Art America product on demand shop. I don’t have everything uploaded so just let me know what you’re interested in and I will get it there for you.

Thanks for stopping by!

My First Solo Exhibit

31 Sunday Mar 2024

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Art on Exhibit

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100 Mandalas, abstract art, abstract flowers, Art, botanical art, botanical collage, floral art, floral mandala, floral still life, flower, flower art, flower collage, flower mandala, Madison art, Madison wi, Mandala, mixed media, mixed media collage, WI Art, Wisconsin art, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, ZIA

My first solo art exhibit is currently open at Oakwood Village 5565 Tancho Drive in Madison, WI. It will remain open until April 30,2024. I had a reception and gave a talk on March 29. It was well attended and there were a lot of great questions.

Making Art

05 Friday Nov 2021

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in 100 Days of Flowers, Art, Art on Exhibit

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100 Days of Flowers, art heals, Art therapy, collage, floral still life, flower, Flower of the Day, flower painting, flowers, gelli print, gelli prints, handcarved stamps, mixed-media, stencilgirl products, still life

I haven’t posted in a long time because I had some health problems and I have been busy making art. I have sold more this year than ever before. One of the pieces that sold has also been selected to be part of a calendar. It is for Mental Health America (MHA) of Sheboygan County. It was the culmination of the 100 days of flowers. It is called Organic Geometry: Garden Mandala. This has been a motif I have been exploring since I participated in the 100 days of flowers and I am including some other examples of this series. I have also done a deep dive into carving stamps. I have carved a lot of flower and leaf stamps and I love to stamp/paint them and cut them out to make collages. I did a few still life pieces like this and plan to do more. The backgrounds and some of the leaves come from some of the beautiful stencils from Stencilgirl Products using a Gelli plate. That combination has provided me with hours of entertainment. It is one of the best antidepressants I have found.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by. I would love to hear from you. You can find me on Instagram @jeanette.clawson.