{Misc Update}
Thu, August 4, 2011 at 11:30AM We're on vacation without a way to upload photos from my camera until later in the week {unless I figure out how to do it with my phone, but I am heat- and technologically-impaired this week} so I wanted to give you an update.
I'm using index cards to plan a creative writing /art journaling class that I hope to teach after-school once each week at my kids' school. It will be for 3rd - 7th graders. So any suggestions or advice for how to combine these two concepts in a good format are welcome! I think some kids will veer more to writing and some to art/paint, so I want it to be very flexible.
We won't have a fresh new Mr. Linky update until next week (forgot the password to set it up) so please go ahead and add an a new link to last Friday's Linky Update!!!
Also, I am trying to get a good count of how many people are doing ICAD at this point in time, so if you are doing ICAD on a regular basis (remember you can skip one day per week) could you kindly add a quick comment?
Each night I've been writing in my little stitched travel journal {here's the one I took with me} + drawing mandalas + doodling in the hotel room. I have a few of the stitched journals in the Daisy Yellow Shoppe.
Reader Comments (18)
Hi Daisy,
I am doing the icad challenge and just about keeping up although not so good on getting things up on flickr etc but I will do the Mr. Linky thing this week. Thanks for all your inspiration. This is a great project and I am having a lot of fun doing just a little each day. Hope you are having a great holiday.
I'm ICAD'ing right along too, just not uploading. I have found that I cannot skip one day per week or it leads to more, so I am doing one every day and LOVING it! Such a great change of artistic pace for me (normally a quilter) and the summer. Thanks for hosting! Enjoy the rest of your vacation.
I am faithfully doing my ICADs, though started a bit late in June...was surprised that not everyone seemed to be posting on the Mr. Linky~~ I think there must be more people doing this challenge than the Linky indicates! I am enjoying the challenge immensely!
I've been doing a page a day in my little notebook since June 1, minus one day missed due to migraines. I really enjoy trying to come up with something different every day and getting inspiration from the other participants.
I've done a card every day since I started, which was June 4th, I think. I've only done a few of the Mr Linky things, but I do post to flickr every other day or so.
Only a fraction of the people playing along with ICAD were doing the Mr. Linky updates. If I look at the members of the flickr group, those tweeting #icad, and comments here there are a lot of folks taking part. Every so often, if you could link into Daisy Yellow that would help too, but certainly not required!
We've definitely started something!!!!!
Tammy
Do you know Diana Trout? She teaches teens and children, I believe. She wrote http://www.amazon.com/Journal-Spilling-Mixed-Media-Techniques-Expression/dp/1600613195. She is a friend of mine and I am sure she could give you some ideas for your class. Tell her I sent ya!
I've been going strong with the ICAD challenge since June 1st, and intend to keep going even after it ends, but maybe not every day. I find the index cards are a great size to experiment with technique before I commit an idea to a journal page or canvas.
I hope that you have a wonderful vacation! I love the ICAD challenge, which I have translated into my Sketch A Day. I plan to continue after your challenge ends, working on strengthening those artistic muscles! Thanks so much for all the inspiration and for starting this challenge.
i have been doing icad since june 13 but have never linked or posted to flickr. it is challenge enough just to get the card done! thanks for the prompts and the idea itself. <3
Still going strong! It's really helped me grow as an artist to work on something every single day. thank you!
I am still doing one every day (haven't missed a day yet!!) and so are my two boys - Gman & Waif.
I've been doing ICAD since June 14th but haven't posted any of my work. I'm enjoying the challenge though and it's helped keep my sanity this summer through a very stressful move! Thanks for thinking of this challenge and for all the inspiration you share!
i'm doing the ICAD challenge, but only recently has it become a "regular" thing. but the more i do it, the more i find i really enjoy it. i dread a blank page, but an index card is just perfect. i even have some "half sized" index cards (3 x 2.5) just in case the going gets really tough, lol
I've only done one or two since coming to visit my grandkids, but as soon as I get home (not sure when that is) I know I'll be back to them regularly.
I miss them.
Sharon
I'm still doing ICAD.
As for teaching 3rd to 7th graders... The only big advice I can give you is have samples/examples to show them. Kids are highly visual and usually need to see the finished project before attacking it. Having many different examples shows them that there are different ways to get to the finished product.
Hugs,
Sophie
Happy holidays to you. I am still enjoying the routine of a card a day though it is getting harder. I am going to take a class in September when I hope to try to give a bit more atttention and time to my creativity, learn some techniques and explore art a bit more than I have had chance to in recent years. So thank you for this project.
I was wondering about your classes and whether a story title or a first sentence of a story might be a good way into either writing or art?
Sophie,
I was debating bringing samples - because I thought that perhaps the kids would think that was the goal rather than "a possible" outcome. Each week the work will be very open ended, something to interpret as they wish. I just want to get them thinking in new and different ways.
Jan, I like your idea of a prompt which could be interpreted as the child prefers. I think that some of the kids will naturally feel more comfortable with paint and color and others with words and analysis or diagrams, whatever.
Tammy