My 100-Day Project 2025

I DID IT! I completed the 100-Day Project this year! In case you’re not aware, the 100-Day Project is a free global art project that thousands of people from all over the world participate in. It’s officially held in the spring, but many people do it at different times of the year.

My schedule didn’t allow for me to participate in the spring, so I decided to do mine over the course of the summer. I started the first of June and painted a small picture every day of a subject I’d never painted before. The goal was to learn to paint 100 new things by the end of the summer. For accountability, I also decided to post my paintings on social media every day. Not just the end result, but the actual act of painting. It wasn't the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but it ranks up there as pretty challenging.

I planned the subjects for the first 30 days a week before the challenge started, then planned the remaining 70 days a week at a time. I did face a couple of obstacles, the biggest of which was time. My need to make sure I could paint the subject well, while filming and posting on social media, meant I needed to practice creating the painting at least once before filming it. During this process, I learned that creating content for social media is a very different skill. It was all new to me. I had to learn how to create and edit the video, add music, and figure out the formula that “the Algorithm” would grab hold of and distribute. I’m still not an expert, but I’ve learned a lot. My last few videos are certainly better than the first few.

Here is a photo collage of my Top 11 Paintings from the project, ranked by total Facebook and Instagram likes.

Here is a collage of My Favorites from the challenge:

After a bit of contemplation, I've identified a few takeaways from the whole process:

• I really like gouache and should use it more often. In case you’re not familiar with it, gouache is much like watercolor in that it can be reactivated with water after it dries. However, while watercolor is mainly transparent, gouache is very opaque. It’s smooth and creamy, like peanut butter. You can use it on top of watercolor without lifting the paint underneath and you can use it all by itself. It's pretty dreamy stuff.

• Fruit is very easy and quick to paint.

• Animals are harder to paint, but more fun and satisfying.

• Landscapes have never been my forte and still aren’t, so I’m determined to master them.

• I love painting patterns. "The Algorithm" doesn't like them as much as me, so I didn't paint very many in this project.

• I can’t paint with any one medium for too long before I get bored. I have to switch it up. In this challenge I used watercolor, gouache, acrylic paint. I also used India Ink brush pens, Posca markers, and and a few other types of media to create the paintings. And I created one double-spread page painting in collage. This is the flowers in the blue vase right above the Christmas Gnome. The collage turned out to be my absolute favorite of all.

Was it worth it? Yes. Will I do it again? Likely. Did I have fun? Absolutely!

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