I have made it to over half way in The 100 Day Project! Yay! I am really enjoying altering my little box of vintage playing cards, little artworks with no pressure. Well apart from the ‘one a day’ pressure of course! The first 30 cards in the project are here and here. If you want to follow my project daily over at Instagram, my hashtag is #100daysofalteredcardsbycatseatdogs. Happy Tuesday x
I am very proud of myself. I have not skipped a day yet or had to play catch-up in this year’s 100 day project. This is mainly due to the fact that I only have a playing card size piece of art to make. Sometimes I will cover the card completely and sometimes I work with the image which is already there. As I work my way through the 100 days I am drawing on more and more of my art journaling experience and treating many of the cards as mini journal pages. I like to see the original cards with the altered version. The only one which I couldn’t tell the original card was number 26 because I layered on so much gesso. I couldn’t see the original card at all, I even tried shining a flashlight through it! Only 70 cards to go! If you want to follow along with my 100 day progress on Instagram my hashtag is #100daysofalteredcardsbycatseatdogs. Happy Thursday!
The 100 day project. One hundred days of constant, consistent artwork. I have 10 days done and now I am into double digit days and still going strong, mainly because I am loving these little pieces I am creating each day. My project is to randomly pick out a playing card from a box of over 400 vintage cards (not all different) each day and alter the picture side. I have been using the picture as part of my final card on some days and some I have completely covered in paint and made my own image. I am posting each card on Instagram using the hashtag #100daysofalteredcardsbycatseatdogs. So far I have doodled and gesso’d in black or white. I have stamped and collaged and tied ribbon. I have even written a little tiny story. What will be on the next card? I am not sure, but I do keep a section in my ideas notebook for ‘100 day project’ specific ideas which I keep adding to, so that is a great back up …
What could you make/create/invent for one hundred days straight? What do you want one hundred of? Pages in a novel (it would be a great start to a book!). Learn a foreign word. Make a pattern every day. Use one colour in a photo or a sketch. Sketch a face. Photograph the same scene – see how and if it changes. Make an altered playing card collection. Design an alphabet. Run a mile (100 miles would be an impressive achievement). Invent a recipe (another book in the making). All kinds of things you could do and by one hundred of them you would be pretty good I think. I did the 100 day project last year and I drew/made or photographed a mandala a day and it was a very good project. Over one hundred days, you really get into it and turn out some wonderful things and some rather terrible things, but the main thing is to keep doing these things until you have achieved that one hundred day point. My mandalas are all …
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 …
Clare Davis Etheridge 