That Time WAS DiffereNt
A 365-Day Tiny Painting Project (2018-2019)
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BUY THE ORIGINALS OR PRINTS: MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, and SUNDAYS (the already-sold list is here if you’re a visual person)
BUY POSTERS (each poster contains all of the art from each particular day of the week - on society6.com)
BUY THE BOOK (alllll 365 paintings in one lovely book - on blurb.com)
AND PAINTING #365:
What was the process?
Create a realistic painting on 4x4" rounded-corner "coasters" (heavy card stock) every day for a year.
The maximum (creation) time limit per painting is 1 hr. & each are done a day ahead of posting.
Every day of the week has a theme with occasional bonus paintings thrown in.
Daily posts are made to IG, my established FB page & a gallery that lives here.
What was new?
In the past, I'd just wing my 365 projects and rapidly run out of ideas. Devising a new object every day becomes exhausting fast, leading to dread, and that doesn't jibe with happy art-making. This time I'm out-smarting myself with several pre-emptive moves - a one-hour time limit per day for painting creation, creating the paintings a day in advance (so I'm not posting them the day-of at 11:59pm), a stockpile of 400 sheets of paper already "torn down" to the perfect uniform size, the themes you see below, and a veritable cornucopia of references that I amassed before the project started.
What were the themes?
What were the goals?
✓ Gallery show! Took place on one glorious evening in August of 2019 @ Pearl Street Studios, Ypsilanti, MI.
✓ Selling the original paintings, prints, posters of each/each theme.
✓ Self-publish through Blurb!
Authoring a Bored Panda article!
Pitch a coffee table-esque book to a publisher!