31 Days in May

Last week I showed you my April pages in my Word of the Year journal.  This week it's May's turn.

I had enrolled on an Everything Art workshop called Self-love 365 and used it as the impetus to colour one square a day for each day in May.  My word of the year is walk which I wrote in the first square and put the number of miles I walked in May in the last square.

I used the usual calendar I had drawn out for May as a record of what I had done - mostly walking or zooming!

Here are the pages for May

And here's my calendar ready for June.   Lockdown is easing byt still no events!

Have you done anything creative lately?

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Challenge reminder

Are you going to join in?

Remember I suggested a 30 day challenge for June!

Here are my paints, papers and inks ready to start on Monday.

I am going to make a collage everyday through June.  I'm not going to have a theme, but there will be a colour scheme.  Plus I'm limiting the size to the size of the sketchbook.  The aim is to fill a page each day and maybe at the end I'll have ideas to develop as pieces of work.  But for now, it's just about playing.

Here are a couple of collages I made in January at Committed to Cloth.

I'd love it if you decided to join in. You don't have to do a collage. You can choose any creative pastime you enjoy. I suggest you do something you already know how to do. Stay in your comfort zone for a month. Innovation might come from it, but comfort zones lessen anxiety. However I would definitely limit the size of what you do.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Word of the Year Journal

I have continued to use my Word of the Year Journal but really more as a lockdown diary.  I've put in it what I have done each day to make me feel as though I've achieved something.  I have recorded the distances we have walked each day.

I started the month with a calendar page even though everything was cancelled!

Each double page spread is a week.  If I haven't written much I fill in with stickers or washi tape.

During the month I wrote on the calendar the rest of what I had done.  Basically full of zoom meetings!

Have you been recording your lockdown activities?

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice