100 days=14 weeks plus some

I have started a new 100 day project.
I have been thinking about how many weeks 100 days make up. It is a little over 3 months, a quarter of a year, a summer. It is almost the length of a semester of school: 14 weeks add a couple of days. Know wonder it feels natural to me. I always liked the semester calendar. It never felt too cumbersome.
So this time around for my 100 day project I have divided up my project into days and weeks. Each week during the 100 day project I will use the same shape/object but a different medium.
This week, week one, I will be using pencil. I will try to post the results after every week.
I have narrowed it down to the following mediums...not in any particular order:
Pencil, colored pencil, pastel, charcoal, watercolors, water colored pencil, encaustic, oil paints, acrylics, collage, paper, mixed media, markers, and artist choice.

100 days of art, a different medium each week. Beginning Monday Nov 1st.
Week one--day one.
This should be interesting

The by product of habit and ritual

The thing about the 100 day project is that while creating habit and ritual you discover a wealth of interesting ideas. It is creative excavating. Who knew we were all artistic archeologists.

It is time for me to get back into some serious excavating. I began the 100 day project today. I will write more on my project tomorrow.
There are others who are currently engaged in this habit, it is a powerful exercise.

May the force be with you.

"Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves." -Horace Bushnell

100 day project.....new edition

anytime is a good time to start
I received this email from an artist friend

Decided to start the 100 day project. After a life changing event this
week for my husband and me, I thought it would be a good time to start. I
have had collected rocks, stones, pebbles througout my life. All this last
summer I have been putting them in a box on the porch. I could always feel
the pull of rocks, so on thurs. I gathered them together and brought them
to my bead table. I also grabbed colored cord and beads. It just started
to happen. I think I could have done all 100 that day. So far I have 3
done and am excited to see where this takes me. The other component to
the project is the number 27. My husband worked for 27 years and that was
a major part of our life that is now over.

Recent Work

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. (Eugene Delacroix)

Never underestimate the power of giving things away

"Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked." Robert A F Thurman

MAIL

This is second phase of the 100 day project; here the first 100 people that send me a self addressed stamped envelope will receive one of my 100 day paper cut outs. This has been really fun and interesting. So far I have had mail from 4 states Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan ( both the upper and lower peninsula) Getting the mail is fun, sending out the cutout piece is like releasing a butterfly out into the world.
I wonder what it is like for the recipent? I had 100 now I have 86 left. I wonder if these simple cutouts are as interesting as a piece or more interesting to view as a series of 100. I kept it simple and only used color paint swatches, a old philosophy of art book, glue and scissors.

If you are participating in this phase 2 with me please feel free to send me your thoughts.