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Max Devereaux Collab

In early August, artist and musician Max Devereaux reached out about doing a digital collaboration. We swapped some images, then played around to create new compositions. Here are the results!

I haven’t done a lot of digital work before, but was grateful for this opportunity to try something that pushed me into a space of learning and experimentation. It is, after all, only by exploring new materials, techniques, and pursuing new ideas that we grow.

You can see more of Max’s work — and other collaborations he’s done — here.

First Art Journal

This is the first spread in my first-ever-completed art journal. I dated the page: September 20, 2009.

This journal was a book I bound, made with sturdy colored paper, and was large — 9.5 by 12.5 inches. I decorated the cover with green, yellow, and blue collage with red splatter, and covered that with packaging tape to protect it.

I still have the journal, and I still love many of the pages within it.

My first art journal opened fully to view a green, blue, and yellow cover. There is red splattered accents, a hand-drawn hand pointing, and in ballpoint pen: "Art Journal, 2009-2010, by Ingrid Murray."

The colorful edges of art journal pages.

My style has evolved so much over the past near-thirteen years. In that time, I’ve experimented with acrylic paint, tissue paper, candle wax, stitching and weaving, pockets, flaps, paper towel, image transfers, stamps, staples, found notes, modeling paste, India ink, stickers and the extra white space around stickers, washi tape, white out tape, sewing patterns, and magazine images.

These days, my favorite materials are vintage book pages, graph paper, security envelopes, acrylic ink, oil pastel, and paint pens.

You can see most of my old art journal pages here.

ICAD 2022

Here they are: all 61 index cards created over the past two months as part of the Index Card a Day (ICAD) project. I used the same materials as last year: 4×6″ index cards, collaged papers, acrylic paint and ink, tempura paint sticks, oil pastels, and various mark-making utensils. Visit my Instagram to see each card in more detail.

This project continues to challenge me, pushing me to focus on creating rather than judging or overthinking. And when you create consistently, with an emphasis on process over outcome and quantity over quality, magical things happen.

Read more about the ICAD daily challenge on Tammy Garcia’s website, and see some of my favorite 2021 cards here.

ICAD 2021

Every year, Tammy Garcia hosts the Index Card a Day (ICAD) challenge. Here are a few of my favorite cards I created this year; see my Instagram for the whole set.

Looking Back: ICAD 2019

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I’m a little over two weeks into this year’s ICAD challenge, Tammy Garcia’s annual index card creativity extravaganza (learn more about this two-month project here).

Today, I’m throwing it back to a few years ago, my second time around with ICAD, when I threw all the rules out the window and stumbled on a loose, intuitive, energetic mixed media process that I loved.

I always wanted to know what my “style” was, but it took letting go and playing for me to discover it.