Clare Davis Etheridge

Blimey we are into the final ten days of the 100 day project which seemed so far away back in April when we started.

I don’t think I have repeated any ‘ideas’, but I might have done!  I don’t look back to see if I have made a copy.  Maybe I should!

Here are ideas 71 – 90.

71. Draw a cat with your eyes closed! No peeking.

72. Cut out a picture and stick it down. Draw a frame around it. Make a gallery!

73. Watch a flower grow, draw each stage.  This would be a cool sketchbook once it is full!

74. Look in the mirror. Draw your face without looking at the paper. Keep your eyes on your face and your pen on the paper.

75. Take a page from a book and cross out all the words except a few to make a new sentence.

76. Make a pattern which looks like part of a map. Start with a small shape and use different line thicknesses and closeness to make your own topography.

77. Cut a lemon in half and draw or paint it.

78. Find a picture of something you avoid drawing normally. Trace it in as much detail as you like.

79. Punch some holes into your page and decorate around them.

80. Use the cut out circles from 79 to form negative space by using them as a mask and paint over them.

81. Stick down the painted circles from 80 to make a pattern. Draw in or around the circles.

82. Draw your pet.

83. Paint water onto the page. Splatter ink over the wet shapes and marvel at the effects.

84. Draw lots of basic faces without eyebrows. Add eyebrows at all kinds of angles and see how the expressions change.

85. Invent a key. What does it open? How? What is inside?

86. Eat ice cream!  Invent a new flavor. What colour is it? Does it have extra ‘stuff’ in it?

87. Find a picture from an old yearbook. Give them a new description or use the original yearbook one. Imagine who they are.

88. Open a book, any book. Randomly pick out a sentence or two and draw or write something inspired by these sentences. Repeat as required.

89. Open a book again. This time randomly pick out some individual words (maybe close your eyes). Use these words to write a poem or as inspiration for a sketch or even a colour swatch.

90. Make a coloring page. Photocopy it and give it to your friends!

If you want to follow along with my project and see the individual cards as I make them, go to my Instagram page at Catseatdogsmakes.

Happy Wednesday x

51. Gather some lovely beads and some thread or beading wire. Make yourself a pretty necklace.

52. Let’s design some borders. Put them along the bottom of a page. Make your own stationery or a pretty card.

53. Paint some blocks of colour onto sheets of paper.  Cut out random shapes from the painted paper. Stick the shapes onto a blank page to make a stunning collage.

54. Find patterns. In the course of your day, be on the look out for patterns. As I was sitting on the plane heading to our vacation I found some shapes to make into a pattern.

55. Sketch your day. Make small sketches of things you come across in your day. A flower in bud or a ticket to  flea market. Have fun!

56. Use a funky phone app to alter a photograph.

For this photo, I put it into the Diptic app and turned the colour all the way down.  Play around, see what happens!

57. Stitch in your sketchbook. Find some cotton or embroidery thread and a nice thick needle. Either sketch a shape or go free-form and hand stitch on a page or two.

58. Make a pattern of rocks and draw it. Repeat and repeat!  You will soon have lots of rock arrangements. I picked up flat pebbles from the beach and piled them up in different ways for this exercise.

59. Make bread. I used this basic white loaf recipe from “The River Cottage” .

60. Sketch butterflies from your imagination or from a book. Use a water soluble marker to colour them. I used Tombow markers. Drip some water onto the butterflies and let them dry.  Draw lots of pretty watercolor-y butterflies!

61. Make a magazine collage garden. Cut out some flowers and grass shapes from random magazine pages. Glue them down and make a beautiful garden. Add details with pens and paint if you fancy.

62. Using an old plastic card, spread some acrylic colour onto your page. Mix it or keep the colours separate. Use the page as a background for a collage or a sketch or leave it as it is.

63. Paint a vase of flowers.

64. Write or sketch a quote.

65. Make a sketch and use some stamps for the details. I drew some shelves and filled them with stamped objects.

66. Grab a good pen, one you like, or a pencil and draw a ‘scribble tree’. Leave your pen/pencil on the page at all times and scribble draw a tree. Give it leaves or flowers, maybe a bird nest!

67. Cut out a lovely face from a magazine and cut the hair off. Stick the face down and draw her a lovely flowery hair-do!

68. Get an old book from the thrift store or library sale. Rip out a page ad draw on it. Make doodles, a pattern or a sketch. Book pages make a lovely background.

69. Paint a planet. Start with a wet circle of white watercolor paint and drop black ink and blue ink into the circle. Sprinkle salt over the whole ‘moon’. Let it dry completely and  brush off the salt.

70. Draw a cactus or two, or three.

Follow my process with the 100 day project over at Instagram at catseatdogsmakes.  Are you doing the project?  I hope it is going well, we are almost three quarters of the way through!

Happy Wednesday x