Welcome, lovely humans, to The Painted Presence Project, where I plan to paint in silence for ten minutes a day for thirty days, all on the same 11 x 15 inch piece of watercolour paper. While this studio diary will only include images, there are full length videos available on Patreon!
I was in mood for something decorative this morning so I pulled out a jar of heavy bodied Titanium White and a stencil and I went to town.
Then I pulled out a jar of Turquoise soft body acrylic and made some marks with that.
My brain was blessedly quiet this morning, AND I forgot to set my alarm so there was a little moment of panic at the end there when I realized that I had probably already crossed the finish line. I caught it before it went on very long, though. Apparently, my internal clock is only off by about 3 minutes. 🙂
I’ve got a speed painting of all seven days for you this morning, too. It was really fun to put this together, and I hope you enjoy it!
I’m tempted at this point to start thinking about focal images and what this wants to be but it’s REALLY EARLY DAYS YET. For all I know I’ll push it ALL back at some point over the next 23 days, so I’m resisting that. I’m already reminding myself regularly that the goal here is NOT a finished painting. The point IS the process, so I don’t have to worry about how close I am to done. I could keep going all year if I wanted to, right? RIght.
I DON’T want to, but I could, and that’s liberating.
Desire. Delight. Whimsy.
Whatever wants to come through. That’s the goal.
See you tomorrow.
xo Effy
Here’s a gallery of all seven days so far.
P.S. Folks who are in my classes over on Into The Wild (my teaching network) or Patreon are getting video content every day throughout the course of this challenge. Folks who are subscribed to my YouTube channel will be getting video updates weekly or so. There may be stuff going up on TikTok. There will definitely be posts going up on Instagram.
Of course, this spot right here will ALSO serve as my studio diary, so I hope you’ll bookmark the site, and hey! EVEN BETTER! I hope you’ll sign up for the e-list, which I’ll use to let you know when a new post goes live. If you want the project PDF, here you go!