Thirty Days Project

Keith and Aya Ikeda-Barry will be showing some of their work from June’s Thirty Days Project at Little Mountain Gallery in Vancouver.

Opening night is Tuesday, July 20 from 5-9pm. Thirty Days Participants and viewers are particularly welcome.

The gallery will be open most weeknights from about 5, and most of the day and evening on weekends until August 3.

Don’t hesitate to contact us to arrange a private viewing or to make sure the gallery will be open when you want to visit.

Can’t wait to see you.

All Participants have been changed from Authors to Subscribers. You can still edit your profile but you cannot post until the next Thirty Days Project begins. If you have an announcement, please contact Thirty Days Admin and we will happily post if for you or arrange temporary Authorship status.

Thank you again to all Participants and to everyone who came to see the work.

Thanks for the platform and the encouragement.  It was difficult to find time every day (especially days when I didn’t get a seat on the train, worked through lunch, etc.) and difficult to leave something clearly rubbish in public view and walk away, but it was never a chore.

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Thanks to you all who put this together. I really dig the WordPress format that allows us to interact with each other. I was amazed by much of the art that came out of this month’s project.

As to my own process, it’s just A Really Good Thing to commit to doing something that isn’t the day to day. I enjoy the creative process, and I love the ‘chipping away’ process of writing only 17 syllables at a time. I didn’t always feel like I had ‘hit it’ with each Haiku, but there is enough in there that I’m pleased with.

Already looking forward to the next one, and thanks to all participants for sharing with the rest of us!

Congratulations to ALL participants of Thirty Days Project, June 2010.

It has been a real honour and a pleasure to host the focal point for this fine collection of work.

Authorship status will be maintained for the next couple of days for participants to edit or add to their posts as needed.

We invite posts writing about your experiences during Thirty Days Project.  How did your expectations of the project hold up? What did you have to do to your work to make the daily deadlines? What changes occurred in your daily life? Did your work come at the expense of something you came to miss? Did you feel differently about your work after a week? Two weeks? And let us know if you have any suggestions about how to make the Project run better.

As you know very well by now, Thirty Days Project is an exercise in more than just creativity and we sincerely hope the results, whatever they may be, are valuable to you.

April, June, September and November each have thirty days, and we look forward to your participation the next time.

Cut photographs, printed on paper. More pics on my blog.

Here’s the location on GMaps. Check it out with Street View.

Well, this is embarrassing. This ended up taking way more time than I had anticipated. While I had the sketched plans and the photos all ready to go, the Photoshopping took ages. Then there were some troubles with the technology: the printer ink came off the paper while making the cuts and the glue didn’t take well to the finish on the paper. It was a fun project to end Thirty Days, but far too time-consuming!

If anyone else would like to give it a try, here is the PDF with two pages of shapes to cut out. You will need a printer, a very sharp, small-bladed cutting tool, glue and patience. The only condition is that you MUST post pics of your efforts, please!

Thanks so much to the Thirty Days team for putting this project together! You guys have been great, and I’m really, really happy I participated (and hope to again).

I’ve posted all my drawings (including the ones from the past couple of days) over here at my blog!

I want to thank the organizers of this project for giving me the opportunity to try something I’ve long wanted to do and to, probably for the first time in years, stick to a daily drawing schedule. It’s amped up my productivity in a dozen other ways!

Here are my remaining Marvel 30-In-One drawings, plus a couple of extras:

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