100 days project :: a new twist
for my 100 days, you know i have to twist things up right? one cannot be like everyone else after all. i tell ya......i gotta be me, the only me there is.
so here goes. i've talked before about the "art every day month" { #aedm2015 } challenge i joined in november last year. that was a total blast! no pressure to create. no committing to pushing out one type of artwork. nothing but having fun sitting in my creativity pool, dabbling, getting serious, taking 5 mins art breaks or sometimes getting lost in my art. whatever me and my muse wanted to get up to, we did.
ahhhhh...it felt so damn good.
after the month finished i knew i wanted to recreate that feeling about art, that air of laissaez-faire* that i had somehow lost whenever i approached my art before.
*lais·sez-faire { ˌlesā ˈfer/ } noun- a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
the #aedm2015 instagram challenge brought it all home to me. it let me know that it was okay to take a break for art just for the sake of art. i mean really? is it that hard to get to my studio { a mere 2 ft away i might add, ha! } and create? no, not at all. but apparently i must have rescinded permission to play. doing any art was either for classes or for work.
so what's a girl to do after feeling that good? step into it more often of course! over the last 2 months i thought and thought about how i could incorporate that feeling into my everyday without feeling the pressure to commit. and that's how the "counting backwards 100 days of art" began to take shape in my mind.
my twist on the 100 days project
i knew i couldn't do 100 straight days in a row. i'd drive myself bonkers after day 3, knowing i had 93 more to go. ha! but 100 sounds like such a good and solid number to strive for. the other thing for me was i didn't want to arrive at #57 and find i was totally bored, fed up and quit right then and there, forever left that i didn't attain my goal { that's cappy brain thinking for sure }.
that's how i came up with 100 days in 366 / 2016 and counting backwards was the twist i put on it. i get the high numbers out of the way and end with the biggie....Number 1. if i get 15 finished in one month and only 3 in the next that's all right by me...it'll all leads to 100 completed works.
sweet right?
no medium or type of artwork is off limits. i might go thru a period of time working with just one medium...but then again, i might not. no limits. no parameters. no deadlines each month.
with that said, here's #100of100
i have a class coming up { one BADASS art journal - starting Feb 1st } using alcohol inks { AI } and wanted to explore it some more went ape sh*t crazy playing with them. i made a few others but now, from these #artplay session with AI, i came up with a series that i'll turn into a class later in the year. oh.em.gee. how i love serendipitous moments, don't you?
ok. now that i've let you in, it's back to work for me.
toodles,
G
WHAT NEW THINGS WILL YOU BE WORKING ON THIS YEAR?
How will you bring forth your creative spirit and let it shine? Tell me in the comments section below.
#ARTPLAYeveryday #creativeflow #100DaysofArt
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