I had an interesting offer right after the holidays this year to join a group of local artist's . They are committing for 30 days to do one piece of creative art work a day. Hence the name ART A DAY. My first reaction was no way could I even imagine myself pulling this off. Then as I thought about it I eventually decided what the heck this may be the motivational factor I really need. So here we go =) My main goal is to try a bunch of different techniques and just let it rip. I will hopeful gain some skills over the month and some good habits of creative disciple...haha that doesn't even sound like it goes together. Creativity for me is usually a spur of the moment inspiration not a planned activity.
I did actually have an idea on how to do this and set myself up with 30 squares of masonite boards I had cut at my local Lowes. (bless that young man's heart who so patiently made all my cuts for me on a very slow day) Then I came home and sanded and gessoed and rabbit skinned glues some of my boards for oil paints and some for watercolors.
These are 5x9 little panels so I am limited right off the top... simplifying is also a challenge =)
Day 1 oil
Day 2 watercolor
Reference photo's by my good friend Nancy Richter at
Traveling Light
My goal is to do at least something 5 days a week. So I will be playing catch up this weekend to get two more pieces done for this week. I am not thrilled with what I am turning out, but as I keep telling my students it is the process of creativity we really need to value not just the outcome.