This week’s prompt for Through the Lens Thursday is ‘Seasoned’. Should I photo a seasoned dish (I am no food photographer, so no!)? How about some seasoning? Maybe some herbs from the garden? Or how about a photo about being a seasoned person?
Seasoned the noun rather than the verb, I want to be a seasoned artist, I don’t want to be seasoned with salt and spices! A seasoned parent is the route Greta at Gfunkified and one of the inventors of TTLT took. Her lovely picture of her children is testament to her skills as a seasoned mother.
This led me to thinking about the 80 days I have been involved in The 100 Day Project and whether I am becoming a seasoned mandala artist or a seasoned follower of challenges thrown out there in media land? Probably neither, but I have been really enjoying the project and the amazing work being produced by the many many 100 day project participants. I have stuck to it and made a new mandala every day, some take ages and ages and some are a photo of a natural or found mandala. I have posted them all on Instagram under the hashtag #100daysofmakingmandalas and I am very proud of my nearly filled sketchbook. So many ideas have come to me through my daily mandalas and I have learnt so many techniques while drawing and painting them.
I still have ideas running out of my head to make more mandalas and different techniques to learn for all kinds of projects. I want to paint more and learn about watercolour painting and I want to learn to draw properly too, so I have a couple of future projects in my pocket already. My kids are off school until August, so I am hoping that they will join in with some art project as we work together on a messy dining table!
Yay for projects! What are you up to? Do tell.
Clare Davis Etheridge 
I’ve been loving your mandalas Clare and your very creative ‘found’ versions too. I too have been having lots of ideas about things and I think it is due in part to the daily creative habit (and accountability) of the 100 day project. I also like the idea of ‘seasoned’ and being a ‘seasoned follower of challenges’. I took on a bit too much this month with TinkerSketch on top of my other things so had to drop that in favour of my haiku habit. I think my last one was of salt and pepper, so that also segues nicely into being seasoned!! Yay to creative habits, projects and challenges xx
The 100 day project is great isn’t it! I can’t believe we are almost done. I love reading your haikus.
I love that you’ve been doing them every day! That’s such an amazing feat.
I am a little amazed myself that I have managed to draw a mandala every day! I like looking back over them and getting lots more ideas.
I love love love these images.
Thanks so much, I love to take them!
What a great thing, to do a creative project every day for 100 days. I must join in next time, though what I’d do I’m not sure. Maybe write every day for 100 days?
This has been a great thing, I never thought I could do the ‘same’ thing for 100 days, but I have learnt so much about my own abilities and idea generation skills!