Day 27:

"Back to school.  Use traditional school materials like number 2 pencils or lined paper notebooks to make something non-traditional."

First let me say that this is actually Day 28's instructions.  For reason's beyond my control (a flood in my basement and house guest to boot) I needed something a little easier that what I had in mind for Day 27's actual instructions.  I will come back to it, hopefully tomorrow.

My materials were things I found in my son's room.

It is suppose to snow where I live tomorrow, maybe the first real snowfall for the area this fall, so in that theme I wrote 'LET IT SNOW' in the blocks of the graph paper and 'Let it snow" in cursive on the lined paper.  Then I folded them and cut some snowflakes.  These are the results.

Day 26:

"Make something portable (or that seems portable) that normally isn't."

Well I did a little sketch late last night but didn't have time to post it.  I decided to draw a little pencil cartoon of a guy carrying a tree.  Sort of portable shade and clean, cool air.  Of course we really can't carry around a tree but wouldn't it be nice if we could.

Day 25:

"Work with nature.  Go to your yard or a nearby park and collect materials to work with."

It is late autumn so finding materials that aren't brown is a bit of a challenge.  I decided to raid my brother-in-laws garden as he has a more established and natural garden. Then I just arranged my finds on a white background.  I like the way it turned out.

Day 24:

"It's not easy being green.  Work only with green-coloured materials today.  Try working on a green surface for a real challenge"

Green in a nature theme should be really easy but I just couldn't seem to come up with anything creative today.  So I found a bright green piece of paper and a green Sharpie.  No real inspiration seemed to come so I doodled some Kerropi inspired frogs. 

Day 23:

"Waste not.  Dig in a recycling bin for all of today's materials."

The inspiration for today's project came from the art being done in my daughter's grade 1/2 class.  They were drawing owls and ripping paper to glue on them.  These were the drawing instructions given to me by the teacher.

I chose to rip up newspaper and glue it on my owl drawn on the back of a cereal box.  I think the kids pictures may have turned out sweeter with their coloured construction paper and creative owls but here is mine.