~3 x 5″ ink on paper
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Pulling and tugging
Each seam
Clamoring its way
Inch by inch to somewhere
Arting for 365 Day 204: Stretching to Somewhere
Category Archives: drawing
Arting for 365 Day 202: Identity
~3 x 5 ink om paper
Goal: To create 0ne piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Unusual to say the least, but certainly all his own. Most who looked upon his oddly shaped auricles judged them to be far and away his best feature.
Sure there were the few who smirked and held their noses high. Even they though, could not deny the impression left upon gazing at such peculiar lobes.
Arting for 365 Day 200: Feather in Her Cap
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
The details were integral as the story unfolded, and she prided herself on knowing each and every one. Each line and color and word that was spoke – each movement and person, all garnered a starring role in her memory.
For her, every last ounce of recollection provided ornament to the already decorated feather in her cap. Which is exactly what she preferred.
This piece available to purchase here
Arting for 365 Day 193: Repeat the Pattern
8.5 x 11″ ink on paper
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
The patterns and routines that make up our daily lives often go unnoticed. Based on habit or efficiency or ease, we follow along our set route, rarely veering off-course. Maybe this is because we’ve learned what works or what we know we like. Or perhaps it’s easier to go along as we always do – not stirring the pot of everyday life.
But now and again we get restless and decide to explore. Nay-saying the voice inside that warns of messing up the routine, we take a chance on something new.
Arting for 365 Day 186: Lone Poppy
8.5″ x 11 ink on paper
A lone poppy
Grows among vast mountains
Skies
Fields
Opportunities
All waiting to be explored
Arting for 365 Day 185: Find 10 Minutes and Do What You Love
~6 x 9″ ink on paper
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Arting for 365 is really one of the best things I have done for myself. The adventure started out as a broad idea to get myself making art again. But (as cheesy as it sounds) it has become so much more. One of the greatest things I’ve learned is that ANY amount of time you can dedicate to what you love, is still dedication. There are days when I only have 10-20 minutes available to create- but those minutes are valuable. Those minutes make me a better artist.
If there is something you love to do, but you haven’t made time for it, start making time. Give yourself 10 minutes a day. Not sure where to find those 10 minutes? I’ve got some brilliant suggestions:
Forego the shower: As long as you can’t smell you, you don’t stink.
Don’t make dinner: Make your kids do it. Don’t have kids? Make your spouse/neighbor/friend or pet make you dinner. Even better, hire a chef. I hear they are super affordable these days. Better yet, skip dinner: We could all use to shed a few lbs anyway
Literature time: Instead of reading that magazine on the pot, bring in a pen and paper.
Commercial time: Give up the Tivo, it’s pricey anyway. Do a little of what you love during those awful political commercials.
Pet care: I’m not saying DON’T give the dog a walk. I’m just saying buy a treadmill and put the dog on it.
It’s as easy as that.
Arting for 365 Day 184: Waves Come Crashing In
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
My fascination with weather was on overdrive last night as I watched coverage of Sandy hitting the East coast. The news channel showed footage of giant waves crashing onto the shores in Ohio. It was pretty remarkable. As much as I hate knowing folks have died in the storm, I still am in awe of it.
This 8 x 10″ drawing is my interpretation of those waves and the full moon that shown brightly in the Colorado sky I was seeing last night.
Arting for 365 Day 183: Handsome Devil
~3 x 5″ Ink on paper
Goal: To create one piece of art each day
You handsome devil, you – with your armored coat and steely eyes. Horns-a-plenty.
You gaze at the sunset whose crest is quickly falling below the cracked dirt floor.
Night falls and you turn – ready to roam as king of the desert.
Arting for 365 Day 182: Growing Downward
8.5 x 11″ ink on paper
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
She was climbing the corporate ladder and found the higher up she got, the more wobbly it became.
Mid-climb, as she reached for the next rung, it dawned on her that perhaps she should have grown downward as well. Established roots to help ground this shaky apparatus.
She looked down, then looked back up and continued climbing.
Arting for 365 Day 180: Weavings
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Just as quickly as the clouds rolled in and snow fell, blue skies appeared and the snow melted away. The morning began with 4 degree weather and by afternoon it was 40.
I am teased, from time to time, about my fascination with weather. But with such drastic changes, how can one not be? Here is to mother nature and all the surprises she has in store.
Micah Richardson 