Week One #the100daychallenge

Happy March! I've been working on the #100DayChallenge and I have completed 7 days so far. Today I am going to make art for the 8th day. It has been fun and challenging at the same time. The fun part is making the art and the challenging part is making time to sit down and do the artwork. 

I can celebrate that I have completed the 7 days and I used various art mediums.

This next week of the challenge I would like to paint various other objects and try something other than landscapes and vases and flowers. 

Here are this weeks art pieces:

I hope you are all well, thank you for reading my post and I hope you leave a comment. 

 Thank you all!

Maria 

I am participating in #the100dayproject 🎨

 

Happy Wednesday! Hope you are all well. I wanted to share with you that I am participating in #the100dayproject! I am really excited and look forward to sharing my art exploration and work with you. I didn't get to finish the project last year due to my health but I am going to try this year and see how it goes. Hope you follow along. I will be posting on all my social media platforms. @bestdayblogger 

I will also post on this blog daily. 

Here is a Gouache piece of PEI and I tried to capture the red beautiful soil and the movement in the sky and water. Gouache is fun to work with and I really love how I can layer paints with it. I wonder if I add gloss on top of gouache will it give it a glossy finish? I must try that tomorrow. 

So much fun to explore and create! Thank you for being here and reading my blog. I appreciate it so much!

In this piece I was testing out colours, shapes and textures. 

Thank you all so much and I will see you tomorrow!

Much Love,

Maria 

more information about he project here: https://www.the100dayproject.org/

The Last Party! Paint Party Friday

The week started slow but It headed toward the right direction. I made watercolour art, created junk journaling, abstract art and I even made rubber stamps. I've created a Notion account so I can research topics that I'm interested in. Is it weird that I enjoy research? lol  So far I'm learning about Zines, Rubber Stamps and Art History. 

Here is the Zine I made.

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I wanted to say thank you to Paint Party Friday, I will miss sharing art with other amazing artists. 

A huge thank you again to Eva and Kristin for being amazing Hosts.

   

I am still participating with #The100dayProject,  I post on IG

Daily.  If you like to follow it would be so wonderful to see you over there.

@bestdayblogger

Have a lovely weekend my friends!

Thank you so much!

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Paint Party Friday! PPF CELEBRATES 11 YEARS!

 PAINT PARTY FRIDAY CELEBRATES 11 YEARS!

Thank you Eva and Kristin for running Paint Party Friday for 11 years! This is truly remarkable, inspirational and amazing. I am grateful for PPF because I have learned so much from other artist and the community is so supportive and wonderful. Truly inspirational place to share art and receive love. Thank you so much for everything. I will miss you all so much!


It snowed this week in Toronto.

This week I've been creating art everyday for the #100DayChallenge and I am very proud of my self. I am enjoying the process and learning to let go and have fun. It feels good to create and find inspiration. I'm truly grateful. 
I wanted to say thank you for all your love and support in my previous post. I appreciate all your comments and love. 
Mixed Media Layering and adding various pieces of paper on the page is so much fun. This piece is GRATITUDE for LifeI used paints, markers, crayons and paper.

Journaling in my favourite bullet journal Leuchtturm 1917I created a self portrait and a collage. 

Sometimes when I don't know what to paint or draw I just make shapes and colour them in. This makes me happy. 

Watercolour Landscape

Mixed Media 

Junk Journaling

It's so much fun to recycle paper bits and put them together on a page. 

I love junk journaling. 

Abstract 

I used acrylics and markers

Sometimes if a piece doesn't work out I put it down for a while and go back to it. 

This was my least favourite and now its one of my absolutely favourite pieces. 

Still life vase with chalk pastels, pencil crayons, pencil and markers.

Still life vase with pastels and pencil crayons

Abstract art with recycled pieces of paper

I hope you all had a lovely week being creative and I truly hope I inspired you in some way.

Thank you from my heart,

 I am so grateful to each and every one of you.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Much love, positivity and many blessings.

Love always,

Maria 

Paint Party Friday!

Hello and Happy March!

Joining in with 

  Paint Party Friday!

I'm also participating with #The100DayProject on Instagram. 

I am super excited for spring are you?

Loving this song this week:

Heal The Pain by George Michael

I've been knitting a new piece, reading a little and trying to get over my reading block. I also started writing more poetry and I am working on a children's book.  

Check out my poetry book if you like. 

Poetry Book.

I kindly received a lovely gift from my wonderful friend Julie. 

Thank you Julie!

Two days ago I did my treatment and now I have three more left to do. I had a really hard day yesterday but I am feeling better today. I've been really enjoying making artwork everyday. It's been so relaxing and fun. I put on my music and light my candle and have fun. 

Please email me if you would like to Trade Artist Cards! 

bestdayblogger@outlook.com

Here are some pieces that I've created this week:

Have a beautiful weekend my friends! 

Be kind to your self. Be Gentle on your soul.

Lots of kindness and love.