Here is the my 100 day project - Days 59-70. I’ve included 12 in this post for a couple of reasons. One reason is the first 4 entries look transitional in style to me and it feels like I’m leveling up in skill. Interesting…
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Here is the my 100 day project, half-way done featuring days 41-50, with a video flip-through of my journal so far, days 1-50.
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Here is the my 100 day project - Days 33-40. Each of the 4-page spreads are unique. The first, all done with only black pen (after lightly with pencil) inspired by my Keys to Drawing Celtic Knots course, and the second spread because I’m really excited about my new garden, ordered seeds etc… Those entries done in pen and watercolors.
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Here is the my 100 day project - Days 25-32. These 8 days all started with a stencil and watercolor paint. Some are finished with a permanent black drawing pen.
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Here is the my 100 day project - Days 17-24. The first four days are inspired by Celtic art in my Keys to Drawing Celtic Knots & Illumination course. This time done using pen and watercolors. I love how this daily art process reflects life!
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Here is the my 100 day project - Days 9-16. I keep learning new things… and going new places definitely effects my daily visual entries.
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The video in this post shows how I make an easy accordion or concertina journal along with inspirational ways you can use it.
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Here is my 100 day project so far - Days 1-8. It has gone as expected with a pleasant surprise.
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Wonder - word of the year poetry journal finished and flip-through. In this journal made out of watercolor paper, I featured and wrote various types of poetry inspired by my word of the year. Beginning with poetry printed on paper, stenciling with watercolor, finishing with pen and a bit of collage.
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I’m getting ready for the 100 day project: #100daysofmyvisualdiary. Even this early in the process, I’ve already learned something.
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It’s a good time to jumpstart my creative life and connection with other creatives through a project like The 100 Day Project. Will you join me?
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Getting back into making art, having a word for the year and adding a new twist to a Word of the Year Journal, Vintage style.
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I’m just going to be transparent here. It’s been a hard journey the past few years. After rallying in 2020-2021 I began to lose my hope and vision. This post tells a bit of my journey from desolation back to consolation.
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This is the seventh post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in Real Life.’ A house-shaped shadowbox with an arts & crafts flare filled with memories, mini journals, nature and hope.
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This is the sixth post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’ Not knowing when our family would be together again, I painted a peg doll for each person in our family. I painted two of each person and kept one for myself, and am sending each family their own family peg dolls.
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This is the fifth post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’ I’ve started the rewarding experience of making a forest meadow journal to chronicle my walks, thoughts, wildlife and nature discoveries. I’m learning to hold the opposites of the season, beauty and decay, light and darkness.
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This is the fourth post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’ Earlier this year I was struggling with sadness more than usual and needed to fill up my joy bucket, and for me one of the best ways to fill that bucket is to create something. I got the idea of buying some unfinished wood toys and painting them for the grandkids.
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This is the third post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’ I’ve started the rewarding experience of making a forest meadow journal to chronicle my walks, thoughts, wildlife and nature discoveries. ‘Art is to make special.’ If that is true, then it is possible to live an artful life by making the little, simple things special.
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‘Art is to make special.’ If that is true, then it is possible to live an artful life by making the little, simple things special. This is the second post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.
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The definition of Art that has resonated with me the most over the years is ‘Art is to make special.’ If that is true, then it is possible to live an artful life by making the little, simple things special. I've decided to write some posts dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’
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