ICAD 2015

I have been having a lot of fun playing along with my ICAD friends at Daisy Yellow again this year.  For those who are unaware of ICAD, it stands for Index Card a Day and it runs from June 1 to July 31.  The idea is that a cheap and unimportant substrate should not impede your creativity and hush the inner critic that says your work is not good enough for better supplies.

Tammy Garcia is the Fairy Godartist behind ICAD and she comes up with lashings of juicy prompts tp be followed or not as the muse strikes you.  She also posts a list of weekly themes with the same direction. So the rules are:  No Rules.  Have fun and play along.  The group is kind, generous and encouraging and in all it is heaps of fun.

To begin we have a list of warm-ups to get the juices flowing.  This year there are 10 prompts.  Here are my warmups.

 Week 1  Theme:  Drawing, Doodling, Pens, Markers, Ink.

1 Chevron

2 Carnival

3 Draw a Map

4 Mailbox

5 Owl

6 Taxi

7 Draw a Periodic Table

Week 2  Theme:  Painting, Gouache, Watercolour, Acrylics, Watercolour Pencil.

8   Grapefruit and Cherry

9   Carrot and Lemon

10  Eggplant and Ginger 

11  Lime and Mango

12  Parsnip and Kiwi

13  Blueberry and Plum

14  Salt and Pepper

 Week 3  Theme:  Collage, Paper, Found Text, Magazine Clippings, Old Books, Lists.

15  Route 66

16  Greeting Card

17  Wabi Sabi

18  Tree House

19  Snow Globe

20  Colour Wheel

21  1970s

Week 4  Theme:  Wallpaper, Thread, Quilts, Abstract and Geometric patterns.  Neocolor, markers and ink.  

22 Psychedelic

23 Romantic

24  Geometric

25  Botanic or Organic

26  Exotic

27  Academic

28  Dramatic

Week 5  Theme:  Mark making tools, Stamps, stickers and Tape.

29  Iced Cream

30  Telephone

31  Trivia

32  The Weather

33  Mad Man or I Love Lucy

34  Flag Independence Day

35 Portrait

Week 6  Theme:  Use different colour pallette each day, any medium.

36  Backgammon

37  Chess or Checkers

38  Mah Jong

39  Bingo/ Monopoly

40  Yahtzee

41  Bridge or Rummy

42  Scrabble

Week 7  Theme:  Words, Typography, Found Text, Definitions, Poetry, Calligraphy.

43  Definition

44  Focus or Blur

45 Saturday Night Live

Album Cover

47 Fashion

48 Disco

49 Black and White

There are now only 12 days left of this years ICAD.  It has been heaps of fun and I will share the remaining cards when they are done.