Happy to announce a new monthly challenge, Show Us Your MEdia

Are you ready to go on a personal art journey with me?

I started keeping a journal in 1979. My first entry was the day of my grandmother’s funeral. I wrote it in pencil, and later my dad told me I should write in pen, so my thoughts would have more permanence. That day was the start of my life-long belief in journaling, in writing yourself down, in making your mark on the world. 

When I discovered mixed-media and art journaling in 2004, it was a natural fit. I love art. I love journaling. The marriage of those things is pure joy.

I want to put the “me” back in mixed media. All art is personal, whether it be a card or an art journal page or a painting. Join me as we begin a series of monthly challenges and prompts that will fuel your creative spirit and help you delve into the ME of MEdia.

Challenge Rules:
We will announce monthly challenges on the Ranger blog on the third Thursday of each month.
Use at least one Dina Wakley Media product in your project. If your product is not obvious (like paint), please list the colors you used.

• You can make anything you like—a card, an art journal page, a tag, a canvas, anything!
• Interpret each challenge any way you like. You can be literal or you can use it as a springboard and see where it takes you. Let the challenge inspire you and stretch you.
• Try to journal on your piece. Write your thoughts about each prompt. You can write a little or you can write a lot, but do your best to incorporate your thoughts and feelings into the piece.
• When you complete a challenge, please share it on your blog and social media (Instagram/Facebook) with the tags #showusyourMEdia and #rangerink.
• We will do two random drawings each month for a prize. We will search the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on Instagram for one winner, and then on Facebook for the second winner. To be clear, you must use the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on either Instagram or Facebook in order to show up in the search and to be eligible to win. You have until the third Wednesday of each month to complete the previous month’s challenge.
• We will announce the previous month’s winner AND the new challenge on the third Thursday of each month.

Note this challenge does not take the place of the monthly challenges we have in the Dina Wakley Media Tribe Facebook group. Those will resume on July 1st. If you're not a member of the tribe, please join us! Artists in the group post lots of cool art and inspiration.

Our FIRST challenge starts today!

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle
Create a piece of art that shares with us your “why.” Why do you create? What compels you?

To launch our new challenge series, we invited a group of artists to do our first challenge and to inspire you to join us! Click on over to the Ranger Blog for links to their social media. To see their art, go to Instagram and/or Facebook and search on the hashtag #showusyourMEdia

Sue Kemnitz

Kay Pierce

Milagros Rivera

Lisa Oxley

May Flaum

Claudia de Nooijer

Jenn Shurkus
Michele Kosciolek

Catherine Carter

Kirsten Varga

Jennifer Engle

Jennifer Gallagher

Rae Missigman

Sandi Keene

 

Here is how I interpreted the challenge.

 

What is my why? Why do I create? I create because I am compelled to write myself on paper. I create to make sense of my self and my world. I create to make my mark. I create so I have a place to put my sadnesses and my joys. I create because it is fulfilling, and fun. I create because it heals. I create because I want to matter.

 

This is a journal page on the burlap in the Dina Wakley Media Journal. The canvas circles are drawings I did with Scribble Sticks and the Fudeball Pen on a canvas page in the journal, then I cut them out to use as layered elements. I wrote on white Media Tape with Scribble Sticks. Paint colors include: Cheddar, Fuchsia, Turquoise, White, Night.

 

 

Are you ready? I can't wait to see what you create.

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