Today’s prompt is “Always” by Switchfoot.

I had a hard time coming up with something for this prompt.  I stared at the blank page for a good while before deciding to just try to do something later.  I eventually came back to it right before bed but still didn’t really have anything.  I looked at the lyrics one last time and just decided to do a heart with the sun’s rays behind it.  I hadn’t planned on dripping ink on the heart but it happened.  I think it looks ok though.

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Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

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Today’s prompt is “Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby” by Counting Crows.

For this prompt I decided to take lines from the song and create a page from it.  I did two pages.  When I heard the song these two images immediately came to me.  I really like how the first one with the film strip came out.

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Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

I decided to do a little doodling today. I kept it simple. I couldn’t get this to scan properly.

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Today’s prompt is “Me” by Paula Cole.

Finally a song I have heard of before and actually really like.  Its one of my favorite Paula Cole songs. I used to listen to the cd “This Fire” all the time while in high school and college.  I had a lot of ideas come to mind when I saw the prompt this morning.  One of the ideas was to only focus on the title “Me” and do a page on words that describe me. However I remembered doing something similar in photographic form; as you can see below.

I then decided to work on the background and just go from there. Unfortunately it took 7 backgrounds before I made one I liked for this prompt. It of course was a simple one.  The page didn’t turn out quite like I wanted.  The india ink ran more than I would have liked and due to that I decided to not add too much more to the background. My monster also didn’t come out the way I had sketched it.  But it all still works. Behind the blue watercolor layer are words and sayings I wrote with different colored Sharpies.

I may come back tomorrow or sometime this week and create another page on this prompt as I have some other ideas I’d like to do.

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Here are the first three of the other six backgrounds I created.  I decided not to post them all as it would have been too many images. Of these I like the last one best.  The other two I am not so sure about yet.  If I can’t come up with anything to do on them I may gesso over them and start again.

Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

I had planned to try to be more artsy today but I was tired and went with simple instead.

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Today’s prompt is “Come Home” by One Republic.

When I searched for the lyrics to the song I saw that many people said the song had to do with military officers.  So I decided to go with that.  I tried doing a camo background.  Then I used one of the lines from the song and then wrote some of my own words.  I tried to make it look like it was a letter to a solider. I thought about adding dog tags but couldn’t find the blank ones I have.

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Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

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Today’s prompt is “Nobody Told Me” by Vintage Trouble.

I feel like the page is missing something but I couldn’t figure out what.  So I decided to just let it be.  I can always come back to it later.

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Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

To participate in Art Every Day Month or to view other participants entries visit Leah’s blog, Creative Every Day.