I love a daily project! I have done daily projects for years in varied forms and different intervals and rules.
This has became the cornerstone of my work after a year long sculpture project at the end of 2016 through to the end of 2017. This was my most formal and long-term daily project and this project was a means to kickstart my sculptural practice after more than a decade focused on painting and drawing predominantly. I don’t necessarily maintain a full year of daily sculpture each year but at least once or sometimes two times a year, I do 100 day projects that provides a structure, a set of self-imposed rules or general parameters that allows me to get right to work when other aspects of life aren’t supportive of research and creative mulling over. I also find that my best creative ideas come when I am working on something different. As they say, creativity leads to creativity.
This year, I took a more focused approach and set my rules around a specific color scheme with each row being a new pigment created with a gradient of 10 tints. This series was a useful exploration of color mixing to develop a clear and specific relationship of colors for the composition. Initially I had this on the white studio wall (first pic) but I also decided to put it on a pale pink wall to see how that looks. I am thinking about ways to use colored backgrounds to interact with the groupings.
Painted Desert (white studio wall) Painted Desert (painted pink wall) Painted Desert (painted pink wall) Painted Desert (No. 19) Painted Desert (No 23) Painted Desert (No. 29) Painted Desert (No. 41) Painted Desert (No. 97)