Category: 100 Day Project

  • Learning Curves

    Learning Curves

    I’ve been trying out a couple of different art supplies this week, and today’s experiment is trying out the primary set of Golden Open acrylics I acquired. I did have two tubes of Open in my stash, I think they came with a sample pack I got in a sale, so I have just about…

  • Mini Complex Pose

    Mini Complex Pose

    100 Day Project ~ Day 35 There are 37 canvases, I think, and momentum is still going. I’m remembering last year when I was doing the daily oil painting and I got bored, that’s not happening this time. Maybe I find bodies more interesting than faces, or maybe the parameters I set were too limiting.…

  • Framing Fun

    Framing Fun

    I’m thinking about framing a few of my paintings, and that’s a whole new ballgame, so I’m playing with the free bits of this app, and I came up with this. Obviously this is not to scale as these paintings are all 6×6″, but I haven’t figured out all the settings for the app yet.…

  • Curled In On Self

    Curled In On Self

    Day 32 100 Day Project Current total: 33 6×6″ canvas panels painted to various levels of completion. This is one of the canvases that had a background painted previously, and the figure has been painted today. I pulled out my timer, which I hadn’t been using for a while, and did the figure in just…

  • More batching

    More batching

    Day I can’t remember but I think it’s 31. The funky perspective pose is one I have done before on a larger scale landscape ratio, so it’s a good challenge trying it again in a 6″ square. Composition is one of the things I am playing with in this project, as well as challenging my…

  • Batching Thoughts

    Batching Thoughts

    Day 30 The 100 Day Project I worked on five boards today, and this one is the most complete, although that hand on the knee and I are having some disagreements. Hopefully in the morning it will come together, or at some point. I was recalling a while ago I was muttering things about batching…

  • All Together

    All Together

    Day 29 of 100 Day Project There are 28 mini canvases here, and the other one that I don’t include with the figures, because it doesn’t fit, so I’m still keeping up with the one canvas for every day. That isn’t how they’ve come together, sometimes I sketch on a couple, then work them on…

  • Ugh

    Ugh

    Day 28 This was another one that only had the sketch on the board, and I’ve given it a first layer today. Funny how the pose reflects how I’m feeling today. I got called some awful things today for liking a post calling for better provision of mental health care, this in the context of…

  • Big Gel Joy

    Big Gel Joy

    It’s Day 27 of the 100 Day Project, and I have 29 mini canvases with paint on. Today I pulled this one from the pile to bring it on a bit from the very scratchy sketch that was there. I started building the values and it’s looking a lot better than it was. I’ve also…

  • Keep Going

    Keep Going

    I’ve lost count of the days with the 100 Day Project, but wherever I am with it, it’s continuing as a daily practice. This one is a basic Zorn palette that needs more work, but the studio got annoyingly hot today, and it’s only March. I unpacked my new gel plate and it turns out…

  • Testing Ideas

    Testing Ideas

    An experiment in progress, that may look like a failure, but I haven’t finished, yet, so we’ll see. I’m enamoured with the image transfer process of charcoal and pastel drawings using a gel plate, so I have tried it out with pan pastels. These adhere to the paper in a different way to soft pastels…

  • Stacked

    Stacked

    This was a real puzzle to figure out, and I could probably come back for a few tweaks here and there, but everything is just about where it should be. Playing with quinacridone red and viridian today. Viridian is such an interesting colour. By itself I am not a big fan, but its fun to…