Daisy Yellow № 116

slow down and create something

Hi everyone, it’s Tammy. Daisy Yellow is a project started 17 years ago when I was getting into art. My goal is to send a numbered issue (i.e. № 116) every two weeks. To unsubscribe, link below.

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A page from my 100 Day Project, ink & gouache in 5x8” watercolor journal, 2024.

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Creative Assignment № 03:

Open a paper atlas or map — explore the legend, colors, typography, patterns, symbols, scale, etc. and invent a doodle or pattern that emulates some aspect of the design

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Here’s ICAD № 04/61, the number was a lucky find. I love the combination of lavender and green and am always pleasantly surprised when I limit the palette.

Yup, it’s the ✨ 15th year ✨ of the Daisy Yellow Index-Card-a-Day Challenge. 🩶📇 Fifteen iterations of this crazy thing? We make art on index cards? Hint: You can still join us. It’s low key. You’ll make a bunch of stuff you wouldn’t otherwise make.

You don’t have to catch up, just start.

Links: prompts week 1 + prompts week 2 + how ICAD works +index page auto-updates every Wednesday

Encouraging you to slow down this week & do something different to shake up your creativity (16 ideas that do not involve screens 📲):

1. Take your 35mm camera out for a spin

2. Write a list of 10 things that made you smile today

   1. Draw a tiny 🌻🐰🪸❄️🌿🐦‍⬛ cute icon next to each item on the list

3. Make a one-staple collage because any day can be a one-staple collage sort of day

4. Draw in a different way, like with a plastic flowchart, french curve, circle template, protractor, or spirograph

   

5. Create something in your art journal (I used a circle cutter to cut out circles from abstract paintings & painted papers)

   1. Award yourself 💫🔭 bonus points for a) ridiculousness, or b) found poetry

6. Attend an author talk at an independent book store or library

7. Make a recipe from a cookbook and add notes in the margins (delightful to discover later)

8. Type on a manual typewriter

9. In your journal, brainstorm the reasons you make art (or whatever creative work is your thing)

10. Make a gelatin printing plate because if you can make jell-o you can make a gelatin printing plate (oldie but goodie)

    

11. Gather petals & twigs and construct a mandala on the breakfast table or ground

12. Listen to a cassette tape or 33rpm album

13. Go swimming

14. Build a castle with a deck of playing cards

15. Sketch at a café, park, zoo, or museum (or the back porch)

16. Paint at an easel, draw an upside down portrait, carve an eraser stamp, make a collage, make expressive marks with ink and a twig, draw the alphabet with a brush marker

Daisy Yellow Zine № 20 🎉

This one is all about index card art! “My art journey is reflected in thousands of index cards — a myriad of mediums, phases, techniques, experiments, realizations, successes, failures, observations, obsessions, side quests, and shifting curiosities.”

Make yourself a mango+lime smoothie ❄️🍧🥭🍋‍🟩 put on your slippers and relax with Daisy Yellow Zine № 20: Index Card Art Love.

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Daisy Yellow is a reader-supported publication. 💕 As a thank you for paid subscribers I’ll share extra writings starting with a new series called the Creative Gazette. It will center on different aspects of our creative practice. If you like my zines, this will 100% be your jam. 🔄 Upgrade for access.

Well folks, please do what you need to do to hold on to your art practice. Life is better with art than without. This has been a hard year. I know my art helps keep me grounded (maybe not today, but most days).

Tammy