Day 344, 8 x 10″ ink and watercolor on paper
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
It seems to me deciduous trees should be classified with the bears and rodents as hibernators. They sleep away their winter days, ignoring cold, biting weather. Alive and working, but not planning to prove it much until spring rolls around. As the sun lingers longer in an April sky, branches bud and blossom, awakening to the warmth.
Day 343, 5 x 5′ Ink and watercolor on paper
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
There are those days when everything you attempt to do seems much more complicated than need be. Phone calls take longer, predicaments that seem as though they should be so simple drag on for hours and hours. Yesterday was one of those days. Luckily, we were able to spend it with a really good friend, which made the situation much more enjoyable.
By the time last night rolled around, though, I wanted to draw something that reflected what our day should have looked like. Simple, nice, easy.
Day 341, 8 x 10″ watercolor, ink and pierced paper
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Roger Ebert, a fixture in the critic’s world, passed away yesterday. I can’t say I was an avid, or even semi-avid, watcher of Siskel and Ebert or At the Movies. I can probably count the number of times I’ve seen the show on both hands and read Ebert’s reviews from time to time. So why am I talking about him? Because yesterday I read an incredible piece he wrote re-printed by Salon.com that discussed his views on death. It nearly had me in tears it was so lovely.
Inspired by his thougthful words, I created this simple, ethereal piece.
Day 339, 5 x 7″ drawn image colored in Photoshop
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Perhaps it was a stretch to call these strange creatures ukuleles. For they lacked strings and the hollow cave where music resonated, on some, shown clear through. Small, off-center sound holes adorned others, but none were the thing you’d hope to make music from. Ukes they were though – jumping fleas. And when no one was watching they danced and shimmied imagining one day, fingers would strum them happily.
Day 337, 6 x 9.5 paper and ink on September 1959 Popular Science Magazine page
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Contrails painted
Against dusk’s fading sky
A group among us
Living
For moments
In flight
Day 335, 4 x 6 ink and watercolor on paper
To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Spindly branches
Entwine
Warm spring air
Coercing
Small green buds
To make an appearance
Day 333, magazine appropriation: Ink and acrylic on May 1955 Field and Stream Magazine
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
They hung at dusk
Like lanterns in a tree
Scales reflecting soft, sleepy light
Calm is the lake below
Glass-like
An aberrently beautiful landscape
(Almost) Original page
Day 332, ~15.5 x 11.5″ acrylic and ink on wooden palette
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Being able to contribute art to a great cause is one perk of being an artist. My wallet is not always full enough to give to every great nonprofit I’d like, so it feels good to know I can contribute to a few organizations doing outstanding work. The local Alzheimer’s Association recently contacted me for a donation- they would provide the palette and I was free to create whatever I chose.
I opted to go with whimsy. I’m hoping the piece will bring some well-deserved money to the group and a smile to whomever goes home with it.
Day 331, 18 x 36″ acrylic, ink and paper on canvas
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
The repetitive sound
Of a strong
Piercing
Beak
Carving its name
Into solid grains of wood
Confident
Until faced
With a softer foe
Day 324, 8 x 10″ ink and watercolor on paper
Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days
Frozen blue diamonds
Atop ice cold waters
Layers
Like sheets of phyllo dough
Packed one atop the another
Micah Richardson 