Pastel

Week five:
I am including a sample of a past 100 day project that I did in pastel. The thing that I loved about the past project was that I hung up the work each day. I am missing that now. I think that viewing progress is part of the habit. It gets you hungry for more. You view it even when you are not actively engage in producing it, and new ideas come about.

End of week 4: Paper cutouts

This is by far my most favorite medium during this project.

Habits and 100 day project

If you want to change your art, change your habits. (Clement Greenberg)


Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994) was an influential American art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he promoted the abstract expressionist movement and was among the first critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock.
( from wikpedia

End of week three

This week is the end of water color pencils. Not sure I like this medium by itself. It has always worked better for me as a mixed media. See below pictures; one is water color pencil on different papers and below that is a painting I did ages ago with colored pencil, water colors and water color pencils.

Influence

On my last 100 day project I worked with paper and circles and lots of colored paint samples, this painting of Lake Superior is a direct result of all that work. I call it: Oct-April

Control

Someone once told me that control is only an illusion.
Below is a sample of water color pencil on cold press paper.

The difference between hot press and cold press paper

I am having issues controlling the water color pencil meduim on the paper.
Mainly because I start to treat the colors like pencil first then add water. I am going to try the water first on the paper then add the pencil...we'll see.
The paper has made a big difference. See what Dick Blick has to say about paper.

What is the difference between a hot press and a cold press surface?

Hot press board is smoother, and is generally slightly more expensive for a given size and weight. Artists who work with airbrush, markers, or pen-and-ink often favor a hot press surface. Hot press boards produce sharper and finer lines. Graphic design applications also tend to favor a hot-press surface, especially when adhesive wax, adhesive film, rubber cement, or transfer lettering is used. Hot press board scans better. Sharper detail can be reproduced from its smooth surface.

Cold press board is slightly textured, and is usually favored when a brush is used, as for watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and tempera. Artists who work in a drawing medium that requires some "tooth" to the surface, such as charcoal, crayon, or pastel, also tend to prefer cold press. Calligraphers and graphite and colored pencil artists choose either surface, depending on personal preference.

More on habit

When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery. (Twyla Tharp)

Lake Superior
benda

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