{"id":1238,"date":"2021-01-22T12:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:34:32","slug":"100-day-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/22\/100-day-project\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Day Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back on April 6th, 2015, I started the 100 Day Projec<\/a>t to do 100 days of something creative. Some people wrote for 100 days, while others drew or made mini-movies, sang, coded, etc.<\/p>\n

Preparing to Paint<\/h2>\n

I decided it had been probably eight or ten years since I painted, so I thought I would do that. I checked on my paints, and even though they were old, they were in great shape to use.<\/p>\n

A week or two before, I went to get a few new brushes and some small canvas boards to paint on. I ended up getting the following size boards: 4 x 6, 5 x 7, 8 x 10, and even a few 10 x 12. All those are in inches not feet.<\/p>\n

Started Painting<\/h2>\n

On the evening of the 6th of April, I started using my new boards and brushes to paint wine bottle shapes on a colored background. It was rough going at first, but I kept at it.<\/p>\n

As my skills improved, I used my pallet knives to paint either the bottle or the background. Doing so allowed me to learn again how to use them. At some point, I even did both bottles and background with the pallet knife.<\/p>\n

Switched to Digital Drawing<\/h2>\n

I kept this up for about 180 days or so before going to New York City for a long weekend. So I wasn’t going to bring my paints, etc. to paint while in New York. I was concerned about how to bring wet paintings home in the train. So I carried my iPad and learned how to do a digital drawing using Paper by 53.<\/p>\n

At first, I did my drawing with my fingers. The drawings weren’t that good and probably wouldn’t have been much better using a digital pencil either.<\/p>\n

Then when Paper by 53 came out with their pencil, I bought one. Purchasing the pencil gave me more features\/tools in the application and improved my wine bottle shape drawings.<\/p>\n

At some point, I missed a day or so along the way.<\/p>\n

I’m currently at drawing\/painting 2,107 out of I think it’s like 2,117 or so days.<\/p>\n

So not bad being creative each day minus ten or so days over almost five years. Some of it could be a bit of miss numbering, but I think it’s more. I missed a few days.<\/p>\n

So I have missed on average two days a year. Not bad in my book.<\/p>\n

Application Upgrade<\/h2>\n

At one point, the application wanted people to pay a monthly fee after upgrading to the newest version. So I held off for many, many months.<\/p>\n

At some point during the summer of 2020, I mistakenly upgraded after such a long time. Because it had been so long since the improvements, I lost 1,700 – 1,800 digital drawings.<\/p>\n

I think they are still on my iPad somewhere, but I haven’t been able to find them, and I never downloaded them. Which I had thought to do many a time but didn’t.<\/p>\n

It was a momentary feeling of loss, but I figured what was I going to do at that point. Okay, there might have been a few swear words mumbled under my breath. Only because it was late at night, and I didn’t want to wake up the upstairs neighbors.<\/p>\n

Other Daily Creative Projects<\/h2>\n

I have done a similar thing with GitHub for a project to keep track of places to eat when I travel (Gotta Eat Here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Then I started another drawing thing with a friend’s child. After they saw me doing my drawing each day, I was visiting them and showed interest in doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

I will write more on those in future posts.<\/p>\n

Here’s to More Creativity<\/h2>\n

So here is to doing something creative each day to break up work, life, and the pandemic. While not making it into something that makes you feel bad\/stressed if you miss a day.<\/p>\n

It’s supposed to be fun and not stressful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back on April 6th, 2015, I started the 100 Day Project to do 100 days of something creative. Some people wrote for 100 days, while others drew or made mini-movies, sang, coded, etc. Preparing to Paint I decided it had … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,263,61,280,279,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-day-project","category-263","category-art","category-code","category-drawing","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jfciii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}