Day 600 of the 100 Day Project I started in February 2024 and didn’t expect to get further than the first couple of weeks, a month tops. I still count the days because maintaining this streak works for me as a motivator.
Today’s postcards from the studio are multiple, and I love that over six hundred days I have gone through so many days of resistance and fighting with myself to just do a piece of art, to developing a practise where I’m working on multiple things. There are still some days where I have to fight with myself, of course, but there are fewer as time goes on.
One of the ways I have gotten over the resistance is building my sketchbook practise, and up there is today’s spread of brown hare studies. The one on the left is done using compressed charcoal and clear gesso with some acrylic paint. The one on the right is my Artgraf tailor’s chalk water-soluble graphite.
This is my newly started A4 sketchbook, and since it’s new I’m testing out how much of a beating the paper will take. It’s a Seawhite 140gsm, so it’s holding up pretty well.
Going larger again, I had some fun on another sheet of the A1 paper pinned to my new board. It’s so much fun painting this big, and I got the basics of this pose from my A3 sketchbook down.
I started this challenge with a small A5 graphite portrait, and now I’m painting A1 figures. I’m enjoying the journey.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
600/600
Thrummie Bizzum 
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