That Time WAS DiffereNt

My first successful 365-Day Tiny Painting Project what was completed from 2018-2019. Once complete, it had a one-night show in a local gallery and nearly 50% of the collection was sold. Some are still available as originals to purchase & prints are available for all: meganfoldenauer (AT) gmail.com.

Shop Links:

  • BUY POSTERS (each poster contains all of the art from each particular day of the week - on society6.com)

  • BUY THE BOOK (alllll 365 paintings in one lovely book - on blurb.com)

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AND PAINTING #365:

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What was the process? 

  • Create a realistic painting on 4x4" rounded-corner "coasters" (heavy card stock) every day for a year.

  • The maximum (creation) time limit per painting is 1 hr. & each are done a day ahead of posting.

  • Every day of the week has a theme with occasional bonus paintings thrown in.

  • Daily posts are made to IG, my established FB page & a gallery that lives here.

What was new?

In the past, I'd just wing my 365 projects and rapidly run out of ideas. Devising a new object every day becomes exhausting fast, leading to dread, and that doesn't jibe with happy art-making. This time I'm out-smarting myself with several pre-emptive moves - a one-hour time limit per day for painting creation, creating the paintings a day in advance (so I'm not posting them the day-of at 11:59pm), a stockpile of 400 sheets of paper already "torn down" to the perfect uniform size, the themes you see below, and a veritable cornucopia of references that I amassed before the project started.