Three Ways

100 Day Project Day 75

I am three-quarters of the way through this blogging challenge and I am enjoying the fact I have stuck in this far. I am not sure if I want to stick to daily blogging after the hundred days is up, but I’m also seeing the way this has worked to ensure I do at least a little bit of art every day, so we’ll see.

I’m also thinking about ways I still want to develop my daily practise, and how I could use the next three weeks or so to do that. I definitely think blogging away quietly without all the crap of social media algorithms is a good foundation for whatever it is I am doing with my art online longterm.

For now, it’s just developing and maintaining my practise, and being kind to myself on the days that doesn’t come together in ways I think it should.

Should is a word I despise for the most part, in case you were wondering. It’s too closely linked to people-pleasing.

I spent today playing with a reference photo that I am going to use for a mixed media piece. I was using my cheapie A4 sketchbook and some watered down acrylic and a round brush, and sketching in the face. I’m not trying for a likeness, but I want to get the feel for the face before I start with the more expensive paper I purchased for this project.

I’ve noticed that when I’m working in this sketchbook, I’m not so comfortable working on the left page of a spread. I don’t know why. It defintely seems to reflect that in the sketches I’m doing there. I’ll have to observe this more.

The sketch in the middle is the left page one, and it’s the version I like least. I like the third sketch best, and I think that might work for the painting, which gives me a nice jumping off point for tomorrow.

ScotPol is a bit less fraught today as it seems we won’t be having another deranged leadership contest, but I am skeptical about whatever has gone on behind the scenes to reach this conclusion, and what kind of deals have been made. Time will tell, but the very worst scenario has been avoided, so I’ll take it.

Til the morn,

Suzanne