Quest 17

Who would like to do a quest?

Find (and photograph or draw or sing about) 3 things that are blue.

Colors are fun. 🙂

Emma Walks

Quest #16 was: “Celebrate human powered transportation in whatever form you wish!”

My favorite type of human-powered transport is…walking!

(I want to get into biking someday, but right now I don’t have a bike.)

Walking is a wonderful, natural way to move around. I really enjoy a walk through a park, an interesting town, or a forest.

Walking is also good for you, of course. And something else I’ve pondered is that you are more free when you walk than when you drive. Why?

Well, in short, many fewer laws apply to you when you walk. You can walk (or run) really, really fast or really, really slow. You can choose not to wear your prescription glasses. In some places, at least, you could drink a beer while walking. You do not need to be registered, licensed, or insured to walk. It’s free to walk – you don’t need to buy a car, gas, or pay any of the multitude of other costs of a car.

I drew this picture to celebrate walking.

Now, let’s go take a walk!

quest 16 is to…

Celebrate human powered transportation in whatever form you wish

my favorite form of transportation human powered or not is riding a bike i will be celebrating bicycling soon and will post my quest results for now please enjoy this fabulous poem

Emma’s Seed Discovery

After quite a long pause, I’m returning with my seed quest results!

There are some bushes I pass by often. I’m not sure what they are. But I noticed earlier in the winter that they have big, strange seed pods dangling from them!

I wasn’t sure if I liked the look of these pods and I left them alone.

Luckily, I saw one in the parking lot later. It has been broken open and the most wonderful seeds had rolled out!

These seeds are so adorable. They don’t even look quite real to me. The amount of seeds you see here are how many come out a single pod.  If these could be strung, they’d make lovely beads. Quite wonderful, isn’t it?

Seed Quest

We had a beautiful response to our Seed Quest.

Check out the artistic results here!

Bug’s Seed Adventure

it has taken me so long to post that my seeds sprouted. I built planter boxes filled them with dirt sprinkled chamomile seeds and now have seedlings!

Quest 15

Getting back to our roots with Quest 15.

Find and share seeds of any kind!

You might find them outside or in your kitchen or…who  knows!

Bug prints

taken me forever to post this made it so long ago. don’t know what to say about it. it is a tiger collograph.

Emma’s (Tiny) Collagraph

Yay, it’s fun to get back to questing!

I made a tiny collagraph. Well, I hope it counts as one!

I love the idea of using scraps, bits, and odd things to make a print. I made mine with q-tips and a heart I cut out of cardboard. I glued them to an empty incense box, inked them, and pressed onto the paper!

Here’s my small (about 1×2 inches) print!

It shows trees and a heart, because I love trees! Or maybe these trees love each other. =)

I just think it’s really cute. This is a fun technique that I’d like to try in different ways in the future.

quest 14 is another one about printmaking!

I hope all my printmaking stuff has not gotten old yet. quest 14 is…

Make a Collograph! A collograph is a very simple form of printmaking that costs next to nothing and can be done with items easily found around ones home. Basically you are making a relief print by gluing various items onto a piece of cardboard then rolling paint on and pressing it. if you want to use your printing plate many times you need to seal it you could use shellac but i plan to use acrylic gel medium because that’s what i have handy. i thin you could just paint it with some acrylic paint on the front and back and that would work as well. There are more advanced ways of printing collographs that involve an actual printing press but this quest is about doing something simple and fun that one does not need a press for. here is a video i found with really simple basic instructions for making a Collograph and in the video they use a brayer or roller but i suspect if you are careful you could even use a paintbrush.

don’t limit yourself to only using cardboard. you can use string, fabric, aluminum foil, really anything can be used as long as the raised part of the plate is all about the same height. get creative and have fun.

bonus points for doing several plates and making a print with various colors.

eta* i just found this great web page with really easy to follow simple instructions for making a collograph