Inks dripped in water, bubble wrap, Posca paint pens, Sakura gellyroll pens. Good times. This is the next in the series from my 100 day project time lapse comps.
My 100 day project time lapse compilations are growing (you can check out the others over here)
The pages in this book got layered over again and again – some began many months earlier – and then were then re-imagined many times in the 100 days.
This page began where I’d written the manifesto for the previous year’s 100 day project. An Actual Manifesto! Lawks!!
Never before had I felt called to write myself such a formal plan, but one morning last year I woke up from a vivid dream with an irresistible compulsion. Then a little over a year later I painted over it.
Watch how morphed over the 100 days here –
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I’ve spent so many hours in the world between the pages of this book.
From the layers of drawings and doodles, to reliving the experience via editing the videos I made for the 100 days project, each page has developed a narrative.
I work fast because one thought spawns a dozen new ideas and I have to run to catch as many as I can.
In this spread it was the stitches along the page edge that generated the triangular patterns, then the edges of the paint streaks which wanted more attention, emerging into solid shapes that demanded stripes, squiggles & spots.
Before I knew it, there were faces emerging.
I’ll be honest – right from the moment they began to appear – I wasn’t quite comfortable with this crowd.
As small and flat as their grinning faces were, I felt outnumbered, and until I redressed this balance I had an uneasy sense here.
Having looked thoroughly disgruntled throughout, the character who remained at the end took on a certain poise and dignity when the others left. Now she clearly owns this spread.
The rest of the characters in this art journal also have a destiny that’s yet to be fulfilled. Catch my August Studio Musings Newsletter to find out more. If you haven’t already done so – hop in here!
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Since I finished my 100 days project I’ve been editing together some of the time lapse process videos to look back at the evolution of these pages. Here is part 5.
Ink over gesso never fails to make me happy.
water splashes on ink on gesso make magical patterns
In this spread I began by gessoing over a page of scribbled color. Then came pebeo colorex inks running through the gesso texture, then ecoline brush pens for their juicy transparent colors that layer like nothing else.
If I’d left this page there, I would have been happy, but this challenge involved pushing through a few ‘finished already’ stages into new territory, in this case it was with water-soluble graphite and watercolor pencils, then lastly a white chalk marker.
It’s curious to relive the visual journey. There’s nothing like filming the process to relive the ‘why did I do that?’ moments.
Time Lapse Compilation: part 3
If you’ve been here before, you’ll know that lately I’ve been documenting my art journaling process through a series of time lapse videos.
It’s curious to relive a visual journey. There’s nothing like filming the process to relive the ‘why did I do that?’ moments. These came up a lot early on but I’m noticing a desensitising effect with practice, and letting go of expectations. Process is process.
Nonetheless, the push and pull of loving/hating the direction it’s taking remains real. It took a really long time for me to catch on where this one wanted me to lead it.
The irony of the words that fell onto this page is not lost on me, from an interview with Sabrina Ward Harrison: “Splendidly Imperfect and Alive”.
This video is a compilation of little time lapse videos taken over a few weeks of back-and-forth-ing on this spread.
The more time I spend in art making, the more I find parallels between a creative practice and all the other everyday-everythings. Seems to me, how we make tends to mirror how we live – bravely – messily – stubbornly – inconsistently… all of these are here!
Releasing the butterfly
This particular spread got so sticky because I reeeally didn’t want to lose that butterfly. I painted and drew around him until I had such a mess there was no other option, ultimately burying him under a new layer of paint to ease the intensity of so much going on. I was resisting letting go.
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Here is the second in my series of time lapse compilations. Wanna see previews of the next of this series + what’s coming next after this enormous project?
Here is the second in my series of time lapse compilations from the 100 day project (the first one is here)
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Over the weeks and months these pages changed beyond recognition. This is a snapshot into the evolution.
This week we reached the end of the #100dayproject. Every day for over 3 months I posted my daily doodles to Instagram. Yikes!
Sometimes just photos, but for the most part, I shared little 30 second or so time lapse videos.
This is an art journal I’ve been doodling back and forth through for a long time. Every day I’d find a page that wanted something new, different colors or just had a space to fill. I’d scribble down words that caught my attention in a podcast or song lyrics, I’d sketch and play and add bits of scraps of stuff from my desk.
There are no rules in a book like this, nothing can go *wrong*. It’s all subject to change, it’s all ephemeral.
Over the weeks and months these pages changed beyond recognition. This is a snapshot into the evolution.
Evolving ideas
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