My What for 100 days is writing. The Why is that although I love to write, I lack the discipline. So this will be the structure I need. At least 15 minutes a day. I know if I write for 15, it will go longer. But the 15 will make me start. I am 74 and full of stories and memoirs I want to tell. I do journal, but that’s for me. This will be for others to read, a legacy of sorts.
Hi, first time doing this project. I've focused on art and crafting while recovering from a ruptured brain aneurysm. I have 2 projects to start with: Pencil Prayers as explained in Strawberry Moon magazine, the other project are " poetry Spools " from Kelli Nina Perkins. Looking forward to seeing your projects, and to see how mine goes.
I'm already doing so much writing this year, focused on getting a memoir published, so while that's an easy candidate, it's something I'm really already doing, so I wanted to find another thing, a little thing, to give this project to.
And do I will be doing #100DaysFlexy, whereby I'm hoping to spend at least 5 minutes stretching everyday so that by the end, I'll be able to do the splits - side and middle. Yay!!
This is my first year doing - years lurking once I heard from someone that it started. I am a fiber artist - loosely. I knit, crochet, spin, weave, and dye. I was thinking of spending 20-25 days on each phase. Dye first, then spin, then weave what I spun for a jacket body, then knit on sleeves, and finally crochet the buttons, closures, bands. Always wanted to do this. And if I can get the fiber prepped, I can enter the final garment in the State Fair!
I’ve been really enjoying junk journaling/art journaling lately but I sometimes get a bit in my head and think it always needs to have a point which then means I don’t art journal as much as I’d perhaps like. So if I can do a little bit a day I’ll be able to make it into a habit more!
My first time with the project. I have become a mixed media artist and a birder in my post retirement life. My project is a series of small one page folded booklets of about 10 pages each. I intend to sketch a bird of some type every day. I already made a foam stamp with 100 DAY PROJECT to decorate the front of each booklet. Excited to begin.
I'm recently retired and need art focus. Been following the 100 Days project for years. Finally doing the prep work to participate. I want to do 100 small oil paintings. They don't have to be good, but they have to capture light. I'm studying color theory and hoping to use that to add vibrance, but the main goal is to work on how to capture light in my paintings. I'm going for 10 subjects, 10 paintings in each. Right now I've narrowed down the subjects, prepped the ground for the paintings, found the first 50 reference photos and am sorting them by subject, cropping and sketching onto the paper. I'll be out of town the first couple of days, so may start early. Hoping I can make it work with the slow-dry of oils. Thinking I could do rough shapes on all 10, then start over adding detail, so that the first 10 days things will be rough, but will start to produce finished work after that. We'll see - it's a start. I know me and my attention span, so if I make it past 20 days I'll be thrilled, lol.
This will be my 4th year doing the 100 day project. My plan is to find abstract compositions using a small view finder and magazine images. (I learned this from an art professor when I was in college.) I will sketch these into 4x6” rectangles, then color them in with watercolor and/or colored pencils. My hope is that this collection will give me ideas for larger paintings.
I just decided to go with the project. In October I traveled to Japan and came back filled with amazing experiences and a lot of ephemera. Everyday life took over of course, and my wish to document everything was pushed aside. I think this is a great opportunity to come back to it and make a big project out of it, because, after all, that was the best travel I had in my life.
This is going to be an umbrella project including YouTube videos, Sketchbook, Travel journal and Photo albums.
I believe I will need more than 100 days to do all of it actually 😆
Hi - this will be my first time doing a project like this. I am retired, earlier due to health issues, and began "arting" as a stress therapy. I found YouTube and have been teaching myself to watercolor. When you said pick something to do where the time flies by I knew exactly what you meant! When I go into my art room, I enter a time warp - hours go by like minutes! So I will chose to do watercolor and maybe a bit of mixed media, too. Looking forward to this! Thank you for sharing and being the sponsor.
I still haven't quite chosen which of two ideas to go for. I love colour, I have a lot of papers I've marbled or painted or printed over many years. I'd love to make a large Colour Wheel using them, punched out in various sizes and shades.
Or! I also love lettering and alphabets, but I'm not good at doing them. I could take a letter a day and experiment. 26 letters x 4 = 104.
My What for 100 days is writing. The Why is that although I love to write, I lack the discipline. So this will be the structure I need. At least 15 minutes a day. I know if I write for 15, it will go longer. But the 15 will make me start. I am 74 and full of stories and memoirs I want to tell. I do journal, but that’s for me. This will be for others to read, a legacy of sorts.
Hi, first time doing this project. I've focused on art and crafting while recovering from a ruptured brain aneurysm. I have 2 projects to start with: Pencil Prayers as explained in Strawberry Moon magazine, the other project are " poetry Spools " from Kelli Nina Perkins. Looking forward to seeing your projects, and to see how mine goes.
The Poetry Spools are sooo cool! Definitely making one of these soon.
I'm already doing so much writing this year, focused on getting a memoir published, so while that's an easy candidate, it's something I'm really already doing, so I wanted to find another thing, a little thing, to give this project to.
And do I will be doing #100DaysFlexy, whereby I'm hoping to spend at least 5 minutes stretching everyday so that by the end, I'll be able to do the splits - side and middle. Yay!!
This is my first year doing - years lurking once I heard from someone that it started. I am a fiber artist - loosely. I knit, crochet, spin, weave, and dye. I was thinking of spending 20-25 days on each phase. Dye first, then spin, then weave what I spun for a jacket body, then knit on sleeves, and finally crochet the buttons, closures, bands. Always wanted to do this. And if I can get the fiber prepped, I can enter the final garment in the State Fair!
I’ve been really enjoying junk journaling/art journaling lately but I sometimes get a bit in my head and think it always needs to have a point which then means I don’t art journal as much as I’d perhaps like. So if I can do a little bit a day I’ll be able to make it into a habit more!
My first time with the project. I have become a mixed media artist and a birder in my post retirement life. My project is a series of small one page folded booklets of about 10 pages each. I intend to sketch a bird of some type every day. I already made a foam stamp with 100 DAY PROJECT to decorate the front of each booklet. Excited to begin.
I'm recently retired and need art focus. Been following the 100 Days project for years. Finally doing the prep work to participate. I want to do 100 small oil paintings. They don't have to be good, but they have to capture light. I'm studying color theory and hoping to use that to add vibrance, but the main goal is to work on how to capture light in my paintings. I'm going for 10 subjects, 10 paintings in each. Right now I've narrowed down the subjects, prepped the ground for the paintings, found the first 50 reference photos and am sorting them by subject, cropping and sketching onto the paper. I'll be out of town the first couple of days, so may start early. Hoping I can make it work with the slow-dry of oils. Thinking I could do rough shapes on all 10, then start over adding detail, so that the first 10 days things will be rough, but will start to produce finished work after that. We'll see - it's a start. I know me and my attention span, so if I make it past 20 days I'll be thrilled, lol.
However many days you do is perfect!
This will be my 4th year doing the 100 day project. My plan is to find abstract compositions using a small view finder and magazine images. (I learned this from an art professor when I was in college.) I will sketch these into 4x6” rectangles, then color them in with watercolor and/or colored pencils. My hope is that this collection will give me ideas for larger paintings.
I just decided to go with the project. In October I traveled to Japan and came back filled with amazing experiences and a lot of ephemera. Everyday life took over of course, and my wish to document everything was pushed aside. I think this is a great opportunity to come back to it and make a big project out of it, because, after all, that was the best travel I had in my life.
This is going to be an umbrella project including YouTube videos, Sketchbook, Travel journal and Photo albums.
I believe I will need more than 100 days to do all of it actually 😆
Hi - this will be my first time doing a project like this. I am retired, earlier due to health issues, and began "arting" as a stress therapy. I found YouTube and have been teaching myself to watercolor. When you said pick something to do where the time flies by I knew exactly what you meant! When I go into my art room, I enter a time warp - hours go by like minutes! So I will chose to do watercolor and maybe a bit of mixed media, too. Looking forward to this! Thank you for sharing and being the sponsor.
Thanks for being part of it! Welcome!
I still haven't quite chosen which of two ideas to go for. I love colour, I have a lot of papers I've marbled or painted or printed over many years. I'd love to make a large Colour Wheel using them, punched out in various sizes and shades.
Or! I also love lettering and alphabets, but I'm not good at doing them. I could take a letter a day and experiment. 26 letters x 4 = 104.