Looseness

Odilon Redon
















I have been trying water color pencil this week. I have to stay loose with it, it gets overworked so easily. I changed the paper. I went from cold press water color paper to regular heavy weight drawing paper. So far I like the results better.
Perhaps though I just need to get looser and go with the flow. Not a bad lesson. I will post the results of both papers this week.

Stay loose and flexible, and keep your expectations very low. (Chris Baty)

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. (Odilon Redon)

a 100 day sampler

A participating artist 100 day project.

end of week two

Week two: the colored pencil week

I am almost done with week two, doing just about two acorn studies a day. I haven't decided on what I will use starting week three.

Week one: #2 pencil and paper

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