I’m at a point in my 100 day project where I’m questioning my sanity in choosing to do this. This feeling is not being helped much by last night’s misadventures with water-soluble pencils. Once I post this, I’m going to make a bunch more prints. That generally gives me a bunch of new ideas...
Dictionary Birds: The 100 Day Project, days 22-27
With the weather alternating between cold-and-gray and somewhat-warmer-but-rainy-and-muddy, it was time for some warm colors. I did another big round of gel prints and used some of them in a collage of dictionary birds. I’ve been pretty fond of printing onto sewing pattern tissue lately. I’ve been scavenging tissue from a thrift-store pattern for...
Mixed-Media Collage vs Lack of Confidence: The100DayProject, days 16-22
I tend to have a pretty intense lack of confidence in my work. Part of the reason I wanted to focus on monoprinting and mixed-media collage for my 100 Day Project is that I want to get more confidence with both. Previously I had a tendency to hide my monoprints in a background layer...
100DayProject, days 5-15
I have not been as wildly prolific as I imagined I might, which I’m okay with. I’ve been getting my energy back after being sick but have still managed to do some work on this every day. Not many finished pieces yet, but I have a lot of raw material now. One day recently...