This Day And Everyday

I really like the idea of challenging yourself to do an art-related activity on a daily basis. I once heard of an artist who painted a self-portrait everyday on the front page of his city's newspaper for a year. What a cool way to not only document subtle changes in yourself but also the current events of your world!

I absolutely love Danny Gregory and he talks in one of his books about drawing his breakfast every morning before he ate it.

Then I heard a story on NPR about an artist who has challenged himself to draw every person in NYC. That will take him the rest of his life!
http://everypersoninnewyork.blogspot.com/

I've always loved doing series.... photographs of different body parts of the same person, paintings of the same spot during different seasons, etc. And I love the tradition my fellow art teacher Mrs.Brown (http://www.mrsbrownart.com) had with her family of drawing a portrait of themselves every year as a keepsake of time gone by. How precious!

There's just something about working on your skills regularly, making a consistent pattern of taking time out of your busy day to create, taking a snapshot of THIS moment.

So cool.

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