Three Six Five

Today is day 365 of daily art plus a blog post. A whole year of showing up for myself, making art, and posting a blog about it as a way of being accountable, and easily countable, to myself.

It started out as a 100 Day Project, and became a habit, and it is the best thing I have ever done for myself.

Some days the procrastination and inner critic dance is a mountain to climb, some days I barely notice it. Some days I create for hours, some days it’s a bare minimum of minutes, but each day I find a way in.

In the beginning I didn’t expect I’d make it to thirty days, and here I am.

The 100 Day Project starts up again on 23rd February, and I am pondering over ideas for a more specific project, because I’ve mastered the creating every day challenge.

Today in the studio I got busy with several different projects:

• layering a background in the A4 spiral sketchbook I am nearly finished. I used a gel plate as part of the process.
• playing around with the concertina book project
• pulled out a project that has been hogging a watercolour block since 2022 and decided it gets resolved this week, or cut off and designated unfinished and filed. I did some painting on it, and brought it on a bit
• pulled out a half-painted drookit hare and worked on that (above). I had made no note of the original colours, so I played around with a couple of different yellows. They were both not quite right, but I carried on with it. After I had finished, I found the exact tube in my drawer, so I got there in the end.

Three Six Five!

Til the morn,

Suzanne

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