#SeasonsDailyArt December 2023 Daily Art Challenge!

 

I hope you can join in the fun! Draw or doodle, write or sing. 

Anything you like! Use the Hashtag when you post so I can check it out.

I am posting on Instagram! Join me there

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#SeasonsDailyArt

Today is Day 3! oh my! I want to make some gingerbread cookies today. :) 

I hope you have fun

I pray that you are safe and healthy my friends.

This month I am vlogging. Please Subscribe to my channel. It means so much to me.

Thank you!

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#SEASONSDAILYART 🎄

🎄 USE THE HASHTAG AND POST YOUR ART CREATIONS ONLINE 🎄 

🤶  Share the Festivities! 🎅 

I decided to create a lovely art challenge for everyone. You can create anything creative from songs, poems, knitting, sewing, doodling, drawing, digital art, baking, crafts, diy, photography, reading, writing, junk journaling and more! You can do anything you like. Post Daily with the Hashtag #SEASONSDAILYART  and interpret the little images any way you like. 

Feel free to download the December Calendar via the link 

LINK FOR CALENDAR

NO RULES! JUST HAVE FUN!

I will be sharing my posts on Instagram and a few on this blog.

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I kindly received an Art Notebook from Leuchtturm1917 and this is where I am going to start my #SeasonsDailyArt in December. I am very grateful for this lovely gift.

Feel free to use my code: MARIA for 20% off your purchase on leuchtturm1917

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I know December is a busy month for a lot of people but take the time to enjoy it and be creative!

Make the time for your self!

I can't wait to check out your posts. I will be clicking the hashtag on IG and checking it out. 

#SEASONSDAILYART

Have fun! Enjoy the journey and gratitude is the key to life!

Blessings your way!

#SEASONSDAILYART December Challenge

July Mood

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Hello and happy July!

I love making monthly mood boards on Canva and I want to share it with you. 

What are your goals for this month?

My goals are to keep working out this month, to take it slow, pray more, create more art and create more vlogs for my youtube channel.  Going to try and keep it simple. I've uploaded new photos on Red Bubble. I have started a new Pinterest board. It's called Periwinkle. I'm loving how the colour makes me feel. It makes me feel so happy! It's absolutely a stunning colour! This month I am looking forward to watching Christmas in July but in PEI it starts on the 8th on the Women's network. In the USA it already started. Also have you tasted the rocky road cookies from Tim Hortons? omg soooo good. I want to make my own. So delicious. 

Here are a few Art pieces I created recently.

New artwork 

Hope you are all doing well my friends. 

Thank you for reading my post. Lots of positivity and love. 

Maria

Dear May...

 

Dear May

We celebrated, cried, got emotional and struggled

Thank you for each emotional journey that I endured this month

It was so many things and even the challenges brought out so much strength and courage within me

thank you May for everything

I have so much gratitude for you

Happy May! Leuchtturm1917 Notebooks

Happy May 1st! I am truly excited and very happy to collaborate with leuchtturm1917. They kindly sent me three stunning notebooks, a pen loop and a pencil.

I’ve been using Leuchtterm1917 notebooks/bullet journals and art books for 4 years now and I’m very impressed by the quality of the product. Strong and sturdy. Never falls apart and I love  the thickness of the 120G edition. The 120G edition has:

• 120 g/sm paper from Germany

• Smooth writing surface

• Very low transparency

• Suitable for a variety of writing instruments

• Available as Hardcover in format Medium (A5)

Here is the 120G edition. LINK

This is not sponsored. These beautiful notebooks were gifted to me and Guess what?

They have given me a gift code for all my followers! The code is:

MARIA20 for 20% off your purchase! May 1 to May 31st, 2023.

Check out the website! https://www.leuchtturm1917.ca/

They have so many wonderful selections on the website and a notebook for everyone! You can even customize your name on the book cover.

So amazing  Danke to @leuchtturm1917canada for collaborating with me.

It’s truly an honour and I’m very grateful.

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Week One #the100daychallenge

Happy March! I've been working on the #100DayChallenge and I have completed 7 days so far. Today I am going to make art for the 8th day. It has been fun and challenging at the same time. The fun part is making the art and the challenging part is making time to sit down and do the artwork. 

I can celebrate that I have completed the 7 days and I used various art mediums.

This next week of the challenge I would like to paint various other objects and try something other than landscapes and vases and flowers. 

Here are this weeks art pieces:

I hope you are all well, thank you for reading my post and I hope you leave a comment. 

 Thank you all!

Maria 

I am participating in #the100dayproject 🎨

 

Happy Wednesday! Hope you are all well. I wanted to share with you that I am participating in #the100dayproject! I am really excited and look forward to sharing my art exploration and work with you. I didn't get to finish the project last year due to my health but I am going to try this year and see how it goes. Hope you follow along. I will be posting on all my social media platforms. @bestdayblogger 

I will also post on this blog daily. 

Here is a Gouache piece of PEI and I tried to capture the red beautiful soil and the movement in the sky and water. Gouache is fun to work with and I really love how I can layer paints with it. I wonder if I add gloss on top of gouache will it give it a glossy finish? I must try that tomorrow. 

So much fun to explore and create! Thank you for being here and reading my blog. I appreciate it so much!

In this piece I was testing out colours, shapes and textures. 

Thank you all so much and I will see you tomorrow!

Much Love,

Maria 

more information about he project here: https://www.the100dayproject.org/

Vlogmas Week One 🎄 Advent Calendars and Baking

Hello Winter! Happy December everyone!

What do you enjoy doing in the winter? 

Here in PEI they say the worst months are January, February and March. 

I’m not worried…okay maybe I am. They sell snowshoes at the local Kent stores! That doesn’t worry me at all! Tomorrow we are expecting a snowstorm. About 20cm of snow and 80 kilometre winds. The wind on this island scares me like crazy. Anyhow, I hope you have a look at my first week vlogmas. I am currently filming part 2. I hope you like it and subscribe to my channel. It brings me so much joy and happiness. 

Thank you so much!

Do you have a bucket list?

Here is my Bucket list:

Winter Bucket List

Walk on trails or ski on the trails  

Make hot chocolate (top it with marshmallows, whip cream, candy canes and more)

Watch a cozy film

Read a Book

Build a Snowman

Try Something New

Make more art and keep up with my bullet journal

Make a delicious soup 

Bake (bread, muffins, cake, cookies…)

Clean my Closet

Organize linen closet

Organize my makeup

Take photos of winter

Have a cup of tea

Light a cozy candle

Create a Winter Inspiration Board

Create a Vision Board 2023

Thank you for joining me today! I am truly grateful!

Maria 

The Last Party! Paint Party Friday

The week started slow but It headed toward the right direction. I made watercolour art, created junk journaling, abstract art and I even made rubber stamps. I've created a Notion account so I can research topics that I'm interested in. Is it weird that I enjoy research? lol  So far I'm learning about Zines, Rubber Stamps and Art History. 

Here is the Zine I made.

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I wanted to say thank you to Paint Party Friday, I will miss sharing art with other amazing artists. 

A huge thank you again to Eva and Kristin for being amazing Hosts.

   

I am still participating with #The100dayProject,  I post on IG

Daily.  If you like to follow it would be so wonderful to see you over there.

@bestdayblogger

Have a lovely weekend my friends!

Thank you so much!

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Paint Party Friday! PPF CELEBRATES 11 YEARS!

 PAINT PARTY FRIDAY CELEBRATES 11 YEARS!

Thank you Eva and Kristin for running Paint Party Friday for 11 years! This is truly remarkable, inspirational and amazing. I am grateful for PPF because I have learned so much from other artist and the community is so supportive and wonderful. Truly inspirational place to share art and receive love. Thank you so much for everything. I will miss you all so much!


It snowed this week in Toronto.

This week I've been creating art everyday for the #100DayChallenge and I am very proud of my self. I am enjoying the process and learning to let go and have fun. It feels good to create and find inspiration. I'm truly grateful. 
I wanted to say thank you for all your love and support in my previous post. I appreciate all your comments and love. 
Mixed Media Layering and adding various pieces of paper on the page is so much fun. This piece is GRATITUDE for LifeI used paints, markers, crayons and paper.

Journaling in my favourite bullet journal Leuchtturm 1917I created a self portrait and a collage. 

Sometimes when I don't know what to paint or draw I just make shapes and colour them in. This makes me happy. 

Watercolour Landscape

Mixed Media 

Junk Journaling

It's so much fun to recycle paper bits and put them together on a page. 

I love junk journaling. 

Abstract 

I used acrylics and markers

Sometimes if a piece doesn't work out I put it down for a while and go back to it. 

This was my least favourite and now its one of my absolutely favourite pieces. 

Still life vase with chalk pastels, pencil crayons, pencil and markers.

Still life vase with pastels and pencil crayons

Abstract art with recycled pieces of paper

I hope you all had a lovely week being creative and I truly hope I inspired you in some way.

Thank you from my heart,

 I am so grateful to each and every one of you.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Much love, positivity and many blessings.

Love always,

Maria