Creating Your 100 Day Project [105]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Have you found your creative well has run dry of inspiration? Especially recently? This week we have two projects to share with you which will help inspire and re-invigorate your art.
The 100-day project was started by the designer Michael Beirut and has since become an annual free global art project for creatives. Just pick an action, do it consistently for 100 days and share it. Today we meet Lindsay Thomson who has been involved in co-ordinating the project since 2017
We talk through some tips on how to pick your project - maybe choosing one of the three key areas projects often cover: play, practice or produce. We also discuss how specific to make it, how figuring out your motivation can really help, what your starting point might be, and how to find time.
The project kicks off on 31st Jan and runs until May 10th.
What to do now:
1. There are some great FAQs and tips on the website page where you can also sign up for the newsletter. http://the100dayproject.org
2. Go to @dothe100dayproject account on Instagram to share one of their recent posts to announce your commitment :-) Look in the Stories for a Q&A session done earlier this month
3. Think of your project and share using #the100dayproject and your own personal invented hashtag
Artist, psychologist and creativity coach Rachel Davis, who some of you may know from her AJ visits, will be offering free support, accountability, inspiration and humour through her IG account @racheldavisart.bayarea as she embarks on her third #100 day project. Rachel knows this terrain really well and is ready to help you stay on the creative track, even when self doubt, boredom and frustration show up, as they inevitably will. Follow #100daysupportwithrachel to keep up with what she’s offering and so she can comment on your journey.
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Don't forget to join the free Art2Life workshop HERE which starts on 15th February. These online lessons are a great guide for you to learn a new approach to making personal, powerful and authentic art. If you follow and learn from these we are happy!
Follow and find Lindsay @lindsayjeanthomson
“Does this sound like fun? I'm not sure. But some years, up to two dozen students start the assignment. And some years, more than half drop out before the end. Everyone starts with high hopes. But things get repetitive by day ten. By day twenty, no matter what you've decided to do, it feels like you've been doing it forever. And bridging the end-of-year break is always a big challenge. But the students who get past day thirty or forty tend to get in a groove that will take them through to the end. Here's a sampling of what's been done through the years, including some of my favorites.
Read about the original Michael Beirut project here: https://designobserver.com/feature/five-years-of-100-days/24678
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| 0:00.0 | I think when you start you never really know like we have no idea we might have a vision in mind but it I mean you're a creative person how your vision like |
| 0:09.3 | expands and the act of doing the work, it turns into something else. |
| 0:13.0 | It's January, it's cold. It's the beginning of possibly another tricky year. |
| 0:25.0 | If you found your creative well has run dry recently |
| 0:28.0 | and you're not that inspired, you are not alone. |
| 0:31.0 | So this week, we have got two projects to share with you |
| 0:34.1 | which are going to help inspire you, reinvigorate you, and better your art. |
| 0:39.2 | Happy listening. thing. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to Art Juice. |
| 0:49.0 | This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and this week Louise isn't with us |
| 1:05.0 | all about the 100 day project. |
| 1:08.0 | Welcome to Art Juice, Lindsay. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you, Alice. I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, we have put this together somewhat at the last minute |
| 1:16.1 | because the 100 day project, which you kind of summarize as a free global art project kicks off on the 31st of January, which is a little bit earlier this year than normal, isn't it? |
| 1:29.6 | It is. So historically we have always started the project the first Tuesday in April. |
| 1:35.0 | But this year with, you know, so many of us home, I had kind of an inkling that it might be nice to start earlier and so I put it out to the community to a vote and almost everyone said yes please let's start as soon as possible. |
| 1:50.9 | I think it's really good timing for it and it's great and I really |
| 1:54.6 | wanted to share this because it's been April for a while and I know when I did it it was |
| 1:58.8 | April for a while and this year I was thinking about it but I kind of thought I've got a while to get my act together and then all of a sudden it's happening now |
| 2:07.2 | So I thought it was a really good time for anybody who who is thinking oh I've got a while to go no you got to get yourself sorted out and on it quick yeah we've got a we've got from today 11 days to start when you said this out I think it'll be under a week right so if you're |
| 2:25.3 | listening any day is a great day to start yeah don't overthink it pick a |
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