2026 - arting - quick art share

Anyone can join in.

Goals
1. Spend 5 or more minutes a day arting (drawing, painting, sculpture, garden, cooking, diorama, photography, or whatever art gives you joy and you want to improve).
2. Share here when you can for extra love from the community to help motivate you.

No pressure scheduled, share when you can.

First pastel

Yuzu pastel experiment

Life keepa getting in the way.  It was supposed to take one hour.

I hate the composition.
Painting is a failure, but I want to finish to see what I can learn

My sons art

I lost heart in the painting early.  But I experimented with removing unwanted elements.

Composition practice
Or what shall I do with too many yuzu?

Our cat has done a chunk of damage to this chair. It has antique silk upholstery so I want to save what I can of it.
(As usual, an auction score,  so we're only in a couple of dollars on it but it is pretty and comfortable so its worth the work)

I've picked out a selection of coordinating fabrics from the stash and just made templates of the arm and back pieces. (I'd have a bolt of this fabric so it makes a great base)
I'm planning on doing overlapping patches from the mixed fabrics with stichwork and possible embroidery on to the templates to make the repair patches.
Then I only have to sew down 3 pieces total to the actual chair.

And I thought the orange would brighten against the duller background

Blue helps

I have been trying hard to spend a few minutes each day working from a children's drawing manual. My goal is to train my hand first, so I can then work on training my eye to tell my hand what it wants it to do. Will it work - who knows - but it won't hurt!

I am using a very nice 2B pencil and that seems to be helping a lot.

For inspiration, I am also reading through Nick Neddo's The Organic Artist.  Amazing how some simple instructions can help give me confidence. I would never have guessed that heating the shafts of feathers in sand would be an important step in making a quill pen? I have a small collection of large feathers from some of my birds, but I'm hoping the fellow talks about making organic ink before I put time into feathers!

I've gone through the scrap/small pieces stash and taken stuff that I think will go together and with the chair.

Still have to iron it all since that will make the patching nice and smooth.

(Several years ago, the Stratford Festival donated a ton of fabric scraps and remnants to our local store.  We got a bunch of those bags on clearance so have some really nice scrap bits)