Inktober 2025 and Artist Trading Cards

09 Thursday Oct 2025

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Zentangle Inspired Art

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Art, Art Journal, Art Journal Every Day, collage, gelli print, gelli prints, handmade books, Inktober, Inktober tangles, Mandala, mixed-media, paper bag art journal, paper bag book, Zentangle, Zentangle Inktober, Zentangle Inspired Art, ZIA

It is Inktober again! The “rules” are:

Pick up a pen

Draw

Post it somewhere (the refrigerator works if you don’t do social media).

There are other October challenges that have grown up around Inktober and the 2 that I enjoy are PrintInktober and InktoberTangles. Print Inktober isn’t very active this year and it generally includes both gelli prints and block prints and I’m doing both. I’m really focusing on the Zentangle challenge. It is a lively and inspiring community on Instagram and I really enjoy it. I’m always amazed at how quickly my Zentangleing skills improve when I do it every day!

I am also exchanging some artist trading cards (ATCs) with Mel Beach who is the master of ATCs! Quilts are her love language and she is amazing at them. She shares her ATCs all around the world. I mostly only share with her. I have a few from other artists, but I haven’t gotten anything to organize them yet and I just have the energy to make art and post about it on Instagram. And sometimes I can teach or show it or mail a few ATCs to my Instagram friend. And I try to blog about what is going on at least once a month.

I’m so happy with how the Zentangled ATCs turned out! All of the stuff that I’m generating (that I’m not mailing to Mel) is going into a paper bag book that I created. It has lots of pockets and spaces to collage and put Zentangled goodies in.

Now I’m tired. Have a beautiful day!

100 Day Project 2022

24 Tuesday May 2022

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art

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100 Day Project, 100 days of color, Art, Art Journal, Art Journal Every Day, circles, collage, color play, color study, colorful, Coloring Page, flower, flower painting, flowers, gelli prints, handmade books, value study, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art

Day 100 of the 100 Day Project Sunflower to support Ukraine

This year my project was 100 days of color fun. I painted in this coloring page for the last day of my 100 day project. It’s for sale in my Etsy shop and the proceeds of the sales will go to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Emergency Response Fund to support Ukrainian refugees.

Here’s an overview of my 100 day project. Some of the color exploration that I did included mixing different color combinations in different brands of acrylic paint, playing with values of those colors or individual colors, gelli printing a whole rainbow of painted papers, compositions with a focus on value or different ways of making colors harmonize, combing color with Zentangle, much of it took place in the journal I created with Andrea Chebeleu from A Work of Heart Studio and some days just playing with color with whatever media I had at hand. And of course there are circles and flowers. Check me out on Instagram to see my full 100 day project @jeanette.clawson

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.