January 20, 2020

I considered the 100 day project a little more.

• Use the blog to reflect on the work daily, posting content weekly.
• Work at a 5 x 7 size on paper
• Multi-media works
• Use inspiration from travels, literature, and anywhere else I can. I am an omnivore and a scavenger.
• Explore elements I work with already. See where it goes. Reflect on what those elements mean.

100 Day Project: Day 1, January 22, 2020

Where to start? With procrastinating of course! So I opened my new book titled: A big important Art Book; Now With Women, and the first thing it did was prompt an exercise doing self portraits. So why not start there? But first I have to lay the ground work.

• Made a template instead of measuring each piece of paper.
• Playing with texture by laying the paint down differently on each paper.
• I didn’t paint each paper yet, just enough to get started. Don’t want to lock myself in.
• I started working this way on the sketchbook project. (I am in the digital sketchbook library). I really enjoyed the results of those mixed-media pieces. I have four sketchbooks in the Brooklyn Art Library, three mixed media. I enjoyed doing them and knowing they are there in Brooklyn, New York being seen. I get emails notifying me.

100 Day Project: Day 2, January 23, 2020

I picked up again last night, excited by the self portrait. I’ve been doing polaroid emulsion lifts to document my travels and new film was delivered last night. I printed from my polaroid lab and chose one of the papers layered with acrylic. (was wondering about that texture and the Polaroid Transfer for some time).

At first I tried to pencil in words around the image.

Scrapped that idea real fast.

I decided to combine the polaroid portrait with an original love: ink doodling. The gatekeeper that launched my head and heart back into art making. I am pleased with the balance.

• Strathmore 400 mixed-media paper 186 lb
• Titanium white acrylic paint
• Self Portrait taken with iPhone
• Printed with Polaroid lab on I-type 600 film
• emulsion lift process
• Faber-Castell ink pen

I tend to hate images of myself, I was drawn to one that was just a partial of my face. I edited it to black and white to see how the color of the film would interpret it in print. This time it came out nearly sepia. In the drawing portion I added spiral symbols. Something I’m drawn to subconsciously and consciously.

100 Day Project: Day 3, January 24, 2020

All the ideas I had swirling around my head fell out somewhere. I turned to doodling on the paper I prepared. Four ink doodles. Two with a white acrylic ground, two without. They’ll be the start for something, I just don’t know what yet. Doing ink line work is meditative and intuitive. I can disappear into the flow until my brain is inspired. Nothing this early morning. It’ll come.

100 Day Project: Day 4, January 25, 2020

I’m still feeling stuck. I painted thalo blue grounds, experimenting with the acrylic application. I have been impatient to try oil pastels over acrylic. It is not my favorite piece. Doesn’t feel like me. Maybe I’ll feel better about it in the future.

• Strathmore 400 mixed-media paper 186 lb
• Thalo Blue acrylic on paper
• White posca pen
• Oil pastel

I believe my second experiment of the day was more successful at combining old and new ideas with different media.

• Strathmore 400 mixed-media paper 186 lb
• Thalo blue acrylic ground
• Faber-Castell black ink pen
• White Posca pen
• Oil pastel

100 Day Project: Day 5, January 26, 2020

Today I am keeping the theme of connections going. All day I kept it in my head to get back to the camper and pick up one of the pieces I ink doodled on dry paper (I ran a small test to see if it would stand up to submerging in water). I wanted to use one of the photographs I took of the spiral petroglyphs and combine it with the spiral doodle. Letting it dry overnight now.

Today I also picked up an art print by Raina Gentry that I admired both for its differences from my work and its similarities. I am reminded that I need to give myself permission to make the art that I want to make and to quit second guessing myself.

100 Day Project: Day 6, January 27, 2020

I bounced last nights experiment off of my husband. He did not like it, so I decided this morning to push it further and then asked him again. “I don’t get it.” I don’t know if that means it’s genius or crap, but I find the results interesting enough to keep. Maybe even continue to push further.

• Strathmore 400 mixed-media paper 186 lb
• Faber-Castell black ink pen
• Black and white polaroid
• Nikon D7200 image using iPhone to Polaroid Lab print

100 Day Project: Day 7, January 28, 2020

One week feels like an accomplishment. Ninety-three days to go. I did a little more with line work on one of the thalo blue painted papers with a white Posca pen. I believe I intuitively did this in response to doing so much line work in black ink. Then I spread out my weeks work for a look. (After spraying the pieces using oil pastel with a fixative)▪️

Next: Days 8 – 14