My Question For The Day Is Have You Ever Produced A Work Per Day

There was a stretch in 2012 where I was producing at least 1 painting of not 2-3 per day. I'm not sure if it was over 100 days though, I don't remember how long it was that I kept it going. I didn't produce a lot of my best work during that time, however, I learned a heck of a lot.

In a 14 day period I produced 84 images. That is six per day.

My JazzDaBri series. It was a 21 hour project.

21 instruments four colors each. I spun the images together with abstracts in PS 3D.

More specifically the instruments were hand painted. Mouse in hand.

My skills did improve, PS 3D was new to me. The painting skill was new to me. The abstracts were more complex which opened doors. Oh and the degree of minimalism and abstraction to leave off hints of things not present was a good innovation in my work.

Dave Bridburg
Bridburg.com
Post Modern Gallery

No, but are you challenging me?

it depends on the work and distractions i give myself. if i concentrate i could probably get done 5-6 photos a day with full quality. but i use photos as vacation time to get other things done while producing work at the same time. if a colorized image is simple i can get it done in a few hours. otherwise it still takes a few days. digital art varies, but i'm getting a lot faster - provided i have the images. most of the time is looking for images i can use.

your skills will increase if you challenge yourself. do something much harder than you are used to. then everything else seems simpler. that's how i always increased by skills in the past.

but if your goal is just to make a lot of stuff and use up a lot of supplies, then i guess try it in bulk. my guess is, you'll end up with sore arms, and a brain that wants to be some place else by the 10th image.

----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Actually, in 2005, I painted 100 5"x7" acrylic paintings in 30 consecutive days from April 1-april 30. Quite a "Learning experience.

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Bill Tomsa

No

I once did a small (~5x7) still life painting every day for 100 days. I was very glad when it came to an end, it was so tiring!

The quality varied. I guess it was good practice

Producing a work per day is not a pace that I can keep up and do what I hope is great work. I like to try to draw something (or paint or photograph or build) every day, but completing something that is really good to me requires having patience and taking the time to finish a piece, rather than rush it. I see a lot of work on this site that I think would look better if the artist simply took more time to develop the piece. With that said, putting yourself under a time constraint or adding pressure can be a good way to improve your skills. For example, timed drawing sessions with models - or any subject really can improve the speed with which you work. I treat it like a fun challenge. So creating a finished piece, I would choose quality over quantity, but sketching, doodling, etc. for the fun of it with no intent on having to create a finished piece is really enjoyable. Rambling a bit, so I will stop now. : )

Yes Abbie, why not?!!

I have recently taken up digital painting. I've spent a couple months developing a workflow. I think it would be very difficult to product 100 works in 100 days.

The other day I completed a study of a bird from start-to-finish in one day. Bird on on a post against a blurry background. It took the majority of the day. But I did complete it in one day.

Yesterday though, I started on a lighthouse/beach scene and with the same detail oriented workflow...it's just grinding on and on and on. I worked on it from about Noon yesterday to 3:00am today with a few short breaks for meals. I've worked on it for a couple hours today. It's probably only half done.

It seems to me that landscape/architecture work will be like this. It will take SIGNFICANTLY longer than other subject matter. More simple setups like birds on basic background (now busy surrounds) or still life or other such things take a lot less time.

It might be possible to complete 100 in 100 days of these more simple things. But complex scenes? The only way it could be done would be by significantly cutting the amount of detail I stitch into the final works. Essentially...I'd have to cut it in half in order to meet the daily deadlines.

Lisa

Lisa's Challenge

I've done a "sketch a day" for a month at a time a couple times, most recently last May. I've started "Inktober" a few times but never got much farther than two weeks into it.

Now you made me wonder, so I look at last serial, started 24.10. 2020, and today is 24.01.2021, 3 months 90 days, 900 works, so I got rate 10/day. And I dont work much, cause I got no time, at the begining of covid19, and self-isolation in the house I use to work much more, unfortunatly my comp broke down and after service I realised I lost about 4Gb of data, drawings, about 6000 of drawings from Mart to June ...



Very last work:

no, I cannot do a painting in one day unless I just throw some paint on a canvas and call it art not with the detail I put into one.

I've never even entertained the idea of producing 1 photo a day. I have tried to do 52 weeks challenges where I produce one photo a week, but I usually don't make the whole year. I'm doing a 52 weeks project this year, as a matter of fact.

As a photographer, it would be conceivable to create several photos in one day, and then edit and "produce" one each day...but that really isn't the same thing as creating a work every day, is it? Even if that would be a hard pace for me to maintain for 365 days.

I don't like the idea of intentionally being committed to producing a work a day, especially if it's some type of challenge. The idea bugs me out. And you may be talking about strictly paintings and I may be talking about a few paintings/drawings and mostly photographs/processing and digital manipulations...

With that said however, I have ironically produced "on average" over a work per day here on FAA over the last decade (anniversary coming up March 27th, 2021) with an FAA count of 4497 uploads. (I rounded that off to 4500)

I figured there are 3650 days in a decade. My statistics on FAA say I've already produced and uploaded on FAA alone, Images = 4500.

I have many more images that I have created but not uploaded but I'm not counting those which include mostly unprocessed, or similar images.

I divided 3650 days into 4500 images and came up with 1.26 images per day over the last 10 yrs.

Like an idiot, I'm writing this after being up all night and into the morning... As of this moment it's 8:50 am in Maryland

So, I'll say goodnight, or goodday (take your pick). ;)

I had a professor who was big on that but I never even tried. First off I give each work whatever time it requires, not all works are the same. The one possible benefit I can see to the challenge is creating a work ethic Where you work on your art every day. I already do that and have for a very long time so the short answer for me would be no.

I did the 100 day challenge, but only lasted 40 days and I fizzled out. But I did learn so much more about the wet cyanotype process and was able to add several acceptable cyanotypes to my portfolio so it was worth it.

I expect a lot of the work I will be doing will be quite lacking, but I will do it to brain storm creativity under pressure.

Yes, The last 3 years I have participated in Mabs Drawoleen in October. She has a list of the subject for each day & I created artwork for 30 days
straight. It's a hoot. I love it, because it's mostly in black and white. This last year, 2020 I created more color. It all depends. Here's the link for my gallery
on FAA: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/genevieve-esson?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=881377

"On average", 1.2 images a day for TEN YEARS!!!

LOL

When the "Rats, Bats, Vultures, etc." Enterprise was in full force, subtracting the days I was peddling or schlepping the work, at least a hundred pieces were , always, somewhere in the process of completion...No individual piece could be created from beginning to end in one day.

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I tried to do a sketch a day and failed.

Never had the chance to yet, the closest thing would have been when I did game dev every day for half a year back in my mid teen years. I hope to spend some focused time on my art sometime in my 20s though, and I'm 20 now so I think I'm on the right track.

Big props to any artist whos ever committed to a work a day for some period of time, if even a month.

Yes. I like to work on several works at the same time, it keeps things interesting.

I did an ACEO challenge on Etsy. Only painters. ACEOs are 2.5" x 3.5". Most original ACEOs are sold anywhere between 5 - 50 dollars, most in the range of 12 - 25. They are collectable because a lot of people can't afford to invest in a big original art piece. If you get famous, then the ACEO becomes worth quite a bit. It is a way for collectors to invest, and if they invest in a lot of ACEOs, someone out of the pack of artists is liable to become a big shot.

However, it's not as easy as it may seem to paint an ACEO every day. They are so small, and require little brushes. Here is one ACEO I did (I thought it was good enough to sell as a print here, and enlarged it by putting a border around it. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/vigilant-unicorn-lise-winne.html .... in other words the real ACEO is just the picture and no border design.

You can look through Etsy's ACEOs here too: https://www.etsy.com/search?q=aceo%20original%20art&ref=auto-1 ... note, some of the ACEOs get messed up with ACEO prints, so you have to look at the descriptions to make sure. The prints get in the search because artists say, "ACEO print of the original art, (name of piece)".

I also sell about one or two ACEOs a month in a co-operative gallery I belong to.

I agree with what Roger said, about many pieces on the go at one time.

I did 800 A4 size works from March to October last year. Led to several commissions. Stopped in November as I started studying. Still studying but ready to take up a challenge!

I thought I'd start another post about the OSWOA. The OSWOA has to be a one-of-kind original work of art always, unlike the ACEO. It is always 4" x 6".

It's conceivable you can do one of those per day too and the brushes don't have to be as tiny. It was a much bigger deal on Etsy when I was active on the site, but I notice there is only one page devoted to the OSWOA now: https://www.etsy.com/search?q=oswoa%20original%20art

I enjoy doing OSWOAs a lot more than ACEOs, but usually you are charging more because of the time invested, and the point of the ACEO for customers is to get something really inexpensive, but that has the potential to be worth quite a bit more later.

As for my own involvement in an everyday challenge, it's bad timing for me. I am making curtains for the house, painting doors, etc. But I'd love to consider it, maybe even go back to ACEO-painting.

Also, right now, I am trying to challenge myself to get to all of the fantasy art creatures including unicorns, firebirds and phoenixes, dragons, fairies, pegasus, monsters and gargoyles, etc. I have a page of unicorns. My focus now is on firebirds ... when I am not making curtains, painting doors, re-doing a ceiling, etc.

RE: ACEO

I've been making and selling actual 3D ACEO for some years now.

Carving a tree from a 3/4" thick block of oak, with a tiny "vulture" placed in it.

They sold great in person, when the buyer can hold the piece before purchasing it.

It ain't as easy, selling on the internet

https://i.etsystatic.com/5389422/r/il/22d9f6/2156254997/il_794xN.2156254997_o9hk.jpg


Edit:

I tried to make a link, with no luck


So, here is the actual work



Sorry, for possibly breaking the rules



By the way, I could carve 2 trees in one day

The "Vulture" even being so tiny, takes parts of many days to create....From the scavenging to the cleaning, to the painting, to the reinforcing, to the assembling of the mussel shell, crab claw, cockle bur, and copper wire.

If you're interested in another version of the 3D ACEO

Hopefully here is a link, (with other of my work included)

https://www.etsy.com/shop/tidelinesalvage

I've done some ACEO's, and can do one in pen and wash in 30-60 minutes but the thought of doing one every day for 100 days is unappealing. lol Here's one I did that an FAA member owns.

https://43-david-king.pixels.com/featured/abandoned-1946-ford-flatbed-pwc-david-king-studio.html

No, i would like to.

Lisa K. "I expect a lot of the work I will be doing will be quite lacking, but I will do it to brain storm creativity under pressure"

I totally agree with Lisa. as i said earlier it's not about producing master pieces as some seem to think. it' about putting your creatve pricrss into high gear each day for 100 days. Some people will "burn out while others will learn some valuable lessons that can be applied to future works

like anything else it's all in the attitude.

Bill Tomsa

Couldn't commit to it. There are just too many other priorities that take precedence over it. Good fortunes with that task though.

There was a time in my life, when I was cranking out ink drawings at an unbelievable speed

Bill Tomsa, I agree that it's not about planning a masterpiece.

Along with that I think if I explore more on my canvas, even while making a terrible mess, sometimes the exploration is not only fun, but very eye opening.

If producing art one a day can help you to discover new ideas and projects, it would be a good thing. Whether you finished or not would be a moot point. It would probably be good for those of us who vacillate about what to do next and over think it. It would be uncomfortable in the beginning but you would learn to do things more quickly and with practice, more effectively. That's what makes this kind of challenge unique. It would have to be small projects but you can still learn with doing a lot of them.

Exactly Suzanne!

Taking the time to do something is better than nothing! lol

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Like Lisa said - it may not be a masterpiece but it opened up a new technique or doing something a different way. You can't worry about it being a masterpiece you have to look at the long term effect (I need to listen to my own advice). Like Roger putting on clothes!

I am about 1 a day for the last 100 days average, by counting back the last 100 uploads. If I did 60 days the average would be a bit higher, and 30 days higher still. That's just because there has been an abundance of subject matter and I had time/made time to pursue it. I have produced some very high quality work. I think the quality is up because I am staying in practice and also getting to know my subjects better. It is all about quality not quantity, but I am not going to waste any images. I have produced some of the best photos of my life in a short time. Most are not especially unique, but not common either. Only one has sold but I expect there will be many more.

Just this month I am averaging 2 a day. In addition to being in the field, I put a lot of time into sorting, processing and researching the subject. Only the very best make it.

It is exhausting work and I do not plan to keep up this pace for a long time. I also support myself with food and real estate photography for hire, so all this new work is in between paid photoshoots.

Way to go Bradford!!!

testing... testing... is this thing on?

Caro... Do you want to join in?

Roger, I like your ACEO and drawing. :-)

I used to do 5 or 6 pieces a day - all quite saleable.
Then again, I don't have the stamina or the wherewithal
to be bothered to market my stuff! That's where the real
hard work is ...

Jack, It's not all that hard to market your work. Just share it on all social media sites. That's all you have to do. I don't take any of my advice though so neither should you.

But all the friends that sell, that's what they do. I don't feel like packaging up my work though, so I hope I sell nothing this weekend. I want to hike instead. LOL

I have before when I was trying to fill my shop on a different site there was a few weeks where I was creating new work everyday to add to my shop. It is much easier with digital art though. I don't think I could do with drawing or painting by hand.

I wouldn't commit to an image a day, as I tend to work in spurts. However, I just checked my records and I've averaged 1.95 images per day over 22 years. I work digitally, so it's pretty easy for me to come up with an image, but much harder/longer to come up with a piece of art.

I think the only times that I could do 1 work per day for 100 days is back during my art degree years.
Did it increase the quality of the work? Yes and no, sometimes it feels like a drag, and having a bad mood while doing art work usually won't have a good results.

Way to go, Kerry!!