Index card art ideas

A list of ideas for creating on index cards or blank cards. Start a themed series, experiment with art materials, toy with ideas, and learn new techniques. Energize your creative practice by working on this simple and imperfect surface.

Are you doing the Index Card a Day challenge? This is a challenge to create a small piece of art on an index card, every day, for the months of June and July. This challenge is the brainchild of Tammy, over at Daisy Yellow Art. You can go to her website for challenge details. I tend to arrive late to most parties, so I did not even get started until mid June. Since I was already behind, before I started, I decided to create all my backgrounds at once, to sort of kick start my project. I…

"Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem." Rollo May

Table of Contents 🌻 2022 ICAD Challenge Hint: This page will automatically update when new prompts are posted. Daisy Yellow Index-Card-a-Day Challenge How does ICAD work? June 1-July 31, 2022 The idea is simple; create something on index card every day for 61 days.

This post describes how the Daisy Yellow Index-Card-a-Day Challenge works. What is the idea behind the challenge? Why do we use index cards to make art? How do index cards help launch a daily art practice? What materials are needed to do the ICAD challenge? What fun things can you do index cards or

All the daily creativity came to a screeching halt nearly a week ago with the last day of July and the 61st card. With the combined 100 day project and this one, I had created every day for 118 days straight. I felt neither overly happy nor sad for the…

What are ATCs - Artist Trading Cards? All about this fun, economical form art craze. Illustrated article on the Tin Teddy Blog.

Instill a daily creative habit by doing a small project on an index card each day for 61 days. The Daisy Yellow ICAD challenge runs annually June 1 - July 31. Paint, sketch, collage, doodle, draw, whatever! Founded in 2011.

The daily challenge of painting an abstract piece of art on an index card during June and July is over - and it's time to celebrate this achievement! I'm late with my personal celebration, but there have been a lot of it going on around the internet these last few days. Nobody knows how many

Table of Contents 🌻 2024 ICAD Challenge This page ⤵️⤵️⤵️ automatically updates when new prompts are posted. The idea is simple; create something on index card every day for 61 days. June 1-July 31, 2024