The prompt for week 15 was to be monochromatic. Using shades, tints and hues of one color.

I decided to use shades of blue and use very little white and black. The background is an acrylic wash.  The big water drops I created using label paper, sharpie, white gel pen and distress inks. The checklist is on a post it.  The girl was created with a torn dictionary page, watercolor paper, sharpies and watercolors. The small drops were created with pearlescent acrylic paint marker, white gel pen and sharpie.

The week 14 prompt was to write your name and embellish it.

I had several ideas for this but then decided to keep it simple however I wanted to use a whimsical font that I had practiced for my name but forgot about it as I finished the page.

My family and best friend call me Meli, the rest of my friends call me Mel and some coworkers called me Mo. One good friend calls me Sir Michael. Its a joke among 3 of us. The others also have male names. I forgot to write it on the page though. I really, really hate being called Missy. Always have and always will. I hate it even more now then I used to because I have had people constantly call me Missy after being told that I don’t like it. I guess they think they are being funny but they are just being jerks, very rude and annoying.

I created the page with watered down acrylic paints, chipboard pieces that I colored, cardstock shapes, acrylic paint markers, Metallic-Colored Sharpies, white gel pen, Sakura Micron Pen and Sakura Stardust Pens.

The prompt for week 13 was to have someone draw on the page and finish it.

My husband and I have recently been playing Ingress which is an augmented reality game that you play on your phone as you walk around the real world.  There are two factions; the Enlightened which want to have us evolve and the Resistance which wants us to stay as we are.  The factions try to control portals which are public art, memorials, post offices, landmarks, etc.  You can then link portals together to create control fields for your faction which determines the number of people, i.e. mind units the faction controls.  You can also attack the opposing factions portals thus destroying any links or control fields connected to the portal if successful.  We have been having fun with it.  So he drew a resonator from the game on top of a chess table with two chess pieces laying down.  I think he did a really good job drawing it. I drew the squares in the background to go with his chess table.

The entire drawing with the exception of the black lines and the chess table were colored in with liquid pigmented ink fluorescent highlighters. After coloring each square I waited a few seconds and then used a damp paper towel to remove some of the color to give it a weathered look. The colors on the square represent the colors of the two factions in the game and the resonator has the color of the highest one you can get in the game.  I just noticed that I forgot to add some white on the resonator so I will add it in tomorrow.

The week 12 prompt was to cut up a magazine and add it in.

I had set some magazine pages aside for this prompt for an idea I had but I misplaced the pages so I had to come up with something else.   Everything is made from magazine pages except the Ingress screenshot.  Writing on here was a bit difficult because the pens and markers had a hard time writing on the glossy magazine paper and the paper was also a bit wrinkly after gluing it down.

The week 11 prompt was to draw, collage or photograph a bird on to the page.

I always have trouble drawing birds. They always come out looking weird.  So instead of trying to do a nice looking bird I decided to embrace the weird.