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2/100
The 100 Day Project (1/100)
I decided to sign up for the 100 day project, because why not. I’m doing 100 days of bugs found in Canada – drawing them in pencil crayon. Maybe I’ll actually get better at my art over time. We’ll see.
6/52
The prompt for this week was ‘birds’ and I love how this one turned out!
5/52
The prompt for this week was ‘landscapes’ and for some reason I decided to do my first ever gouache picture – which I absolutely HATE. But it is what it is.
3/52
This is week 3 and 4 out of 52 – the prompt on the left hand side is ‘flowers’ and the prompt on the right side is ‘something floating’
2/52
It’s 52 weeks of art, the prompt for this week was “treasure”
1/52 Weeks of Art
I wanted 2025 to be the year that I actually USED my sketchbooks, instead of just collected them – so I started a few challenges. One of the ones I started is 52 weeks of art, at least one watercolour painting a week. I wrote out prompts for this challenge, and the first one is pictured above: salad.
I’m hoping that by creating intentional art time, I actually get better at my craft and since I’m not very familiar with watercolour paint, I want to get better at that, too. Whether I get better or not, I’m having a lot of fun and it feels very nice to be creating.
Happy New Year!
I hope everyone survived the holidays and are looking forward to the promises that a new year brings! The main goal for this year is to online the shop, which requires me finishing up the product pictures to five more products (hopefully) minimum. I’m hoping to have the shop open February 1st. The selection of items for sale will be limited to prints (for now) and then as I get more comfortable with things I’ll expand to other products. Maybe. I’m hoping this serves as motivation and inspiration to keep creating, even if I don’t sell anything.
In other news, I’m looking for some waterproof ink. The two that I own (pictured above, Waterman and Noodler’s Ink) are NOT waterproof. I’m not sure why everyone keeps telling me Noodler’s Ink is, this one most certainly is not, I wet a little bit of my writing and it smudged all over the place. I own 2 (soon to be 3) fountain pens, and I’d really like to be able to sketch with my pen, but I also want to be able to apply watercolour paint over top. The search continues.
Air Dry Clay Ornaments
Each year I enjoy making a handful of decorations for the Christmas tree with the kids – and this year we decided to try air dry clay. We used whatever we had at hand, including some play-doh molds which is why you see a festive broccoli and corn in our collection above. I attached some metal hooks, and some merino yarn that I spun to add them to the tree. Everyone had a fantastic time making them, and I covered them with UV resin, so they should hopefully last a few years. The memories from these little crafts are what I treasure most, and each year we take out the decorations I remember how much fun we all had together making them. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, as long as you’re enjoying yourself.