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100 Day Project 2025, Current/Upcoming Exhibits and ICAD

09 Monday Jun 2025

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I worked on the 100 day project again this year. It’s an Instagram challenge intended to support a daily art practice and is frequently used to dive deeply into something an artist wants to explore. It starts in February and runs for 100 consecutive days, ideally. I had a lot of health challenges since last December and wasn’t able to make art at all or much for a couple months. It really set me back in my art practice so I did a very gentle version of the challenge.

Spring Metta Meditation

This piece was one of the main things I worked on and I was so happy to be able to finish it in time to get it framed for the Madison Art Guild Summer Salon. It is currently on exhibit in the surgical waiting area of UW Hospital at 600 Highland Dr. in Madison, WI. It will be up until the end of July. Seeing my art when I go to appointments at the hospital (usually at least twice a month) is amazing. It makes me happy and I think it makes me more 3 dimensional to the health professionals I encounter during these appointments. Having my art in medical facilities that I go to has been on my art bucket list and I’m grateful for each opportunity.

This piece started with some collage and gesso on mixed media paper. Then I wrote out a long version of a Buddhist Metta (loving kindness) Meditation. I found I really needed this at the beginning of this year and I hope people stop and notice that it’s in the background. We need all the loving kindness we can get.

Some days I wasn’t able to make much progress and I took a lot of breaks to participate in a few free Instagram workshops: Sketchbook Revival, Mastering Mixed Media and Workshop Week. These free classes offer me projects that can subtly or significantly impact my art process or remind me of tools/techniques I haven’t used in a while. I really think it’s a big part of keeping my art practice fresh. Usually free access is only for a limited time but you can pay for unlimited access at any point during the workshop. So I prioritize the workshops I want to try and can let the rest go. I did get long term access to Sketchbook Revival so I haven’t yet done as many of those projects yet.

Here are the results of some of these fun workshops. As you can see they are very different from my usual work and maybe you will see the influence of them on the index cards I’m currently playing with. The index cards are for the #ICAD index card a day challenge hosted by Tammy at Daisy Yellow. Check out her website to learn about the guidelines, prompts, history, and community related to this wonderful Instagram challenge. I am starting a new large piece and wanted to play around with the design and techniques I use and I’m cutting it up into index card sized pieces and trying different things on them. I am actually really liking the effect and might to this for the entire piece. Stay tuned.

I also worked on some pieces just because I felt like block printing and because I am getting some smaller pieces ready for the Eco Squared show at Hatch Art House. I will do a post on that show when I finish my final piece and submit them to the show.

Another 100 Mandalas Project

28 Saturday Sep 2024

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In the past I have done my own challenges during which I aspired to make mandalas (almost) every day for 100 days. I have been able to work on a mandala almost every day but a lot of my work takes more energy than I have on a given day. Frequently when I try to make a simple one it becomes complicated. So I once again am aspiring to make 100 mandalas by the end of the year, or make a whole lot and finish up a lot of works in progress. I started the project when there was a little more than 100 days left in the year.

Here’s an overview of week 1. I’m off to a good start! I did make 7 mandalas, but one is in the same sketchbook as the art supplies inventory rainbow so it’s not in the overall photo. Another one also appears twice as I combined a completed mandala with one that was in progress and not going well.

Sketchbook Revival class on art supply inventory taught by Janine Vangool of Uppercase Magazine
Combination of dragonfly mandala and zendala featuring a pattern by Debbie Huntington.
This zendala is from a class in the Tangle Talez workshop taught by Shie Naritomi.
This zendala is a combination of one of my handcarved stamps and some Zentangle patterns.
A collection of my handcarved stamps with some mixed media Zentangles and enhancements.
Another Tangle Talez zendala. This one was taught by Anica Gabrovec (Zen.linea).
The central portion of this mandala is another tile that was taught at Tangle Talez by Anica. I incorporated it into a collage that uses my stamps, zentangles and mixed media.

I hope you have a beautiful day!

100 Day Project Wrap Up

03 Monday Jun 2024

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I finished the 100 day project again this year and felt it was my most successful one ever. This amazing set of torus mandala and seed of life mandala blocks and some coordinating center blocks will entertain me for years to come. Would you be interested in playing with one of the different sized sets? What size? Which combinations do you like best?

Here are the prints I made using these blocks and a page of sampler prints of my medium sized torus mandala. To see the development and samplers for the small and large torus mandalas and the seed of life mandalas see my previous post.

Still life pieces made by mixing and matching gelli printed papers and book pages snuck into all the mandala printing. I carved leaf and flower blocks and a block print template to make the different components. I plan to teach this as a class that can be easily modified for differing ability levels. I’m also thinking about putting these samples up for sale in a local gallery for $25 each. (details to follow)

I love to make cards with my blocks and here are some quick thank you cards I made. One of my goals was to print on fabric by the end of the 100 day project and I was successful in that I did make an attempt. It was a good learning experience and shows that I have plenty more to explore with block printing!

Let me know if you have a favorite piece or want prints of something from my Fine Art America product on demand shop. I don’t have everything uploaded so just let me know what you’re interested in and I will get it there for you.

Thanks for stopping by!

Mandala Exploration in the First 50+ Days

16 Tuesday Apr 2024

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Here is a selection of prints from the first 57 days of my 100 day project this year. I am exploring different mandalas. I started this exploration before the 100 day project started but I am really getting into it. I am having so much fun playing with block variations and enhancements.

I am specifically playing with torus mandalas and seed of life mandalas that are the basis for a lot of sacred geometry. The vesica piscis shape (the central overlapping portion of 2 circles – think ven diagram) that is created by the intersection of 2 seed of life mandalas provided an interesting design challenge. I also merged 2 seed of life mandalas without creating this shape in the blue print in the upper left corner.

You can see that I could not avoid my studio assistant. Apparently she really likes these prints. Her name is Soho. The upper left and middle photos have some prints that are only the vesica piscis portions of the seed of life overlapping block sets.

I’m going to create another set of blocks that are in between the big mandalas (4 inch radius of central circle) and small mandalas (2 inch radius of the central circle). And I hope to start printing on fabric.

100 Day Project 2022

24 Tuesday May 2022

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Day 100 of the 100 Day Project Sunflower to support Ukraine

This year my project was 100 days of color fun. I painted in this coloring page for the last day of my 100 day project. It’s for sale in my Etsy shop and the proceeds of the sales will go to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Emergency Response Fund to support Ukrainian refugees.

Here’s an overview of my 100 day project. Some of the color exploration that I did included mixing different color combinations in different brands of acrylic paint, playing with values of those colors or individual colors, gelli printing a whole rainbow of painted papers, compositions with a focus on value or different ways of making colors harmonize, combing color with Zentangle, much of it took place in the journal I created with Andrea Chebeleu from A Work of Heart Studio and some days just playing with color with whatever media I had at hand. And of course there are circles and flowers. Check me out on Instagram to see my full 100 day project @jeanette.clawson

100 Days of Flowers: Valentine

17 Wednesday Feb 2021

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I haven’t finished posting about my pandemic art series, but I wanted to share a project I just completed and an ongoing challenge I’m participating in. The 100 day challenge is intended to help artists develop a regular practice of creating art. I decided to make 100 floral images. Here is my valentine for my husband. I have uploaded it to my Fine Art America page if you want to get it on cards.

valentine

I have participated in the 100 mandalas challenge but I didn’t do it everyday and I lost track of where I was both times I tried it. Part of the loosing track was moving from Wisconsin to New Jersey and then moving back to Wisconsin. But I digress. I have enjoyed the first 17 days of the challenge and I will do more posts on the whole body of work in the future.

Yesterday’s visual garden developed from a larger piece I had created last week.

abstract secondary colors

I really liked the shape of the large orange flowers and decided to create a stamp inspired by it. This piece was an exploration of doodled, abstract flowers with tones of the secondary paint colors. I really enjoyed mixing the paint and playing with the different shades and tints. I love how the colors turned out and I wanted to do it again. This time I wanted to mix 3 primary colors to get a whole rainbow of possibilities. I selected quinacridone magenta, yellow medium azo, and cerulean blue hue in heavy body acrylic paint. I mixed each of the colors with black and white. Both pieces are painted on gessoed paper grocery bags. It is a really nice weight and texture of paper and I have easy access to lots of it. And I always like to upcycle what I can.

 

I carved my stamp and painted my background green made from mixing my yellow and blue paints. It turned out very yellow when I painted it but it looked green on my pallet. Then I separated some rose images using a paintbrush and water to get soft edges on the tissue paper. This is a Tim Holtz floral tissue paper that I love to use in backgrounds.

 

I learned this technique for building up a garden background in a lesson in the Wanderlust 2021 year-long class that I’m taking. It was taught by Laly Mille and I loved it. I know this is a technique I will use a lot in the future so thank you very much! I added photos from magazines where I wanted the garden and book pages where I planned to put the text.

I added my own twist to the process and stenciled some flowers in the background. Last summer I discovered the Stencil Girl company and joined their Stencil Club and I love it. I got this floral stencil at the cyber Monday sale and have used it a lot. I let the yellow and magenta combine organically as I pounced paint on it with a makeup sponge. The more realistic flowers are from a Shawn Petite stencil. I love the stencils both of these artists sell and the videos they have of techniques for using them. But back to my valentine. I used gesso to make a clear place for my quote that I printed on tissue paper.

When I tried to stencil the yellow flowers they wouldn’t show up until I put some gesso through the stencil first. I realized I would need some gesso to make my abstract flowers pop. I used the colors right out of the tube and made circles where the flowers were going to go. The magenta and yellow mixed in the process and looked great.

background circles

I used my new stamp on the yellow circles and painted purple flowers on the magenta circles using the June 2020 Stencil Club 6×6 inch stencil. This stencil set is my new favorite. I didn’t take a picture of it, but when the flower stamps were on the yellow circles it look like viewmaster reels, does anybody still play with those? I also used my smaller flower stamp and stamped all around. I painted those flowers blue and played with embellishing and embellishing. I just got a bunch of Posca paint pens and I love them so much. Sometimes the right tool makes all the difference. almost finished

I splattered some yellow paint and glued my quote down with matte medium. I love how the tissue just disappears. There was too much white around the quote so I added some more blue flowers and it was done.

Happy belated Valentine’s Day. Wishing you love and beauty today and every day.