100 Days! Done!

100 Day Project Day 100

I feel like I have accomplished something, but pinning down exactly what that is is a little more difficult. In terms of numbers, I have definitely made art every day for 100 Days, and posted a blog every day for 100 Days, but those are just numbers, and the things I have achieved are not to be found in mere numbers.

I have filled a sketchbook. It had five pages filled when I picked it up at the beginning of March. This was around the time I had finished filling a previous sketchbook that had years of bits and pieces in it. Filling a sketchbook in three months, and also having other sketchbooks on the go, is definitely a measure of developing my practise.

Having a vague deadline every day of 5pm ish for when I like to post my blog has given me a motivation that has surprised me. Some days I find getting into the craetivity easier than others, and some days it really is a desperate dash to produce *something* to put in a blog. I’m genuinely surprised those more challenging days didn’t quite manage to derail me.

From that I have really made peace with the fact that you cannot produce masterpieces every day, and I’ve also made peace with the idea of sharing unexciting work. This is very cool because I think there’s a lot of pressure, probably self-inflicted to a certain degree, to post perfection online. I’m over it. This blog is just postcards from my process, and being real about what I am up to.

I’ve tried to develop a kind of routine that gives time to the Let’s Face It course I am doing, without letting that dominate my art process. I want to make my own art too. Thats something I’m still working on, but I’m getting better at it.

I’m amused today because I set up a vague structure for this week to see if that helps me focus, and today was going to focus on filling the last pages of my sketchbook, and doing this week’s class. I was all organised to start with the class this morning, and it hasn’t launched. It’s fine, it will launch when it launches, it’s just amusing to me that I got my shit together, and the one part I had no control over went a bit awry.

So I focused on my sketchbook, and thought about tackling that watercolour portrait I have been turning into a drama for weeks, and when I picked up the palette it still had some leftover shavings of the water-soluable charcoal I used for last week’s class portrait. I had saved them rather than tip them in the bin.

I used them up doing some little portaits in the last few pages of my sketchook. I love what I did, and I’m having a moment observing that these little pages are definitely a moment for noticing how I have improved my skills, and my confidence, through doing this 100 Day Project.

I’m going to carry on with daily blogging because it is part of my process, and it feels like this is just the beginning of where I want to take my art.

Thank you so much if you have been following along!

100 Days… phew!

Til the morn,

Suzanne