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2017

Summer 2017: The 100 day project

Daily drawings inspired by the photos on my phone

The TWELVTY Art Journal:

Featuring single colored pages of mixed media, collage, painting and doodles. Made throughout the TWELVTY year full of color 2017

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2016

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Mixy

artist, adventurer, wonderer, wanderer, gatherer, ponderer, thing maker, writer, buddhist, humanist, yogini, not a real gecko. Making it all up, one bit at a time.

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day 18 of #the100dayproject #100layersbyMixy —————————————— I’m painting without a plan here and just enjoying the process, watching (literally with these time lapse videos) to see what emerges. ——————————————— Today I’m returning to one of the first in the series that feels ready for a bit of color now. It’s unusual for me not to dive right in with ALL OF THE COLORS ALL ONCE but I’m letting the paintings decide this time, and they want me to slow tf down w the colors, that’s what’s happening here. ——————————————— Today we just want a bit of cyan blue, and that’s enough. ——————————————— #100dayproject2018 #100daysproject #100daycollective #itsallametaphor #exactlylikelifeis #slowcoloring #cyanblue #justonecolor #onecoloratatime #followthemuse #paintingwithink #timelapsepainting #makingitupasigoalong #creativeprocess #learningallthetime #creativepractice #intuitivepainting #abstractart #watchmepaint #swirlyshapes #lightanddarkcontrast

day 17 of #the100dayproject #100layersbyMixy —————————————— Persevering with canvas #4 today. This one has become too grey and middle-y, and was asking for more contrast. The black and white helped bring some definition back. But.... ——————————————— But what’s troubled me most with this one is that horizon that comes and goes. I wasn’t sure it was level for a while, then I decided the easel wasn’t level, and finally I settled on it being a combination of the camera angle and my eyes being a bit wonky. And possibly it’s not level either. ——————————————— But for whatever reason this painting wants something horizontal in it despite and it keeps coming back. ——————————————— Then right in that final second in the video, the last swooshes of the brush when the horizon turns into a branch and I quit forcing it into an “is it or isn’t it?” kinda straight line and let it do its own thing… Suddenly I’m in love with this one too. —————————————— #100dayproject2018 #100daysproject #100daycollective #itsallametaphor #exactlylikelifeis #lettinggo #nonattachment #itsalljustpassingthrough #werealljustpassingthrough #timelapsepainting #blacksheepoftheseries #wonkylines #makingitupasigoalong #creativeprocess #learningallthetime #creativepractice #intuitivepainting #abstractart #watchmepaint #swirlyshapes #lightanddarkcontrast #straightlinesandcurves

Day 16 of #the100dayproject #100layersbymixy ————————— Editing the day after cos I just saw all my words are missing. I forget what they were. So today you can think of your own words 🤔😉 #nowords

I don’t know the symbolism, but I notice I keep drawing hands. So here’s another on a page a added more to today. this art journal travels almost everywhere with me and since the end of last year I’ve been adding little bits here and there most days. ——————————————- #artjournaling #arteveryday #bitbybit #streamofconsciousness #patternsonpatterns #handprints

I started this art journal page while I was eating my lunch one day at work. This book travels almost everywhere with me and since the end of last year I’ve been adding little bits here and there most days. ——————————————- #artjournaling #arteveryday #bitbybit #streamofconsciousness #patternsonpatterns #handprints

day 15 of #the100dayproject #100layersbyMixy —————————————— I wonder if it’s because I began it later, but this canvas has got something quite different going on . Of course this is only the second layer which will become lost under the next shapes and colors our the next few weeks, but I’m intrigued to see if it keeps its own distinct character. ———————————————- I’m learning much more than a new style of painting is this 100 day project (Which is why I love these challenges so - it’s the sideways lessons that show up along the way) ———————————— One lesson I have to relearn in every layer is that I don’t have to like how it looks. The counter lesson to that is, if I do like how it looks, to have the courage to cover it up and see what happens next. I don’t know if courage is the word - but the belief that it’s all a part of the process, it’s transient, let’s move on now and let it go. It’s all and exercise in letting go again and again. I guess the idea is, if I can do this in painting, I can do this in life. ———————————— #100layersbyMixy #100dayproject2018 #100daysproject #100daycollective #itsallametaphor #exactlylikelifeis #lettinggo #nonattachment #itsalljustpassingthrough #werealljustpassingthrough #timelapsepainting #paintingtomusic #findingarhythm #findingmystyle #fingerpainting #creativeprocess #learningallthetime #creativepractice #intuitivepainting #intuitiveart #paintingwithink #abstractpainting #abstractart #watchmepaint #swirlyshapes #lightanddarkcontrast #straightlinesandcurves

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