I am currently on Spring Break on a college tour visit with our youngest son. Everyone needs a break now and then. So I have put the Every Day Project on hold for the week. I have big plans for when I return because it is time again for the 100 Day Project which will start on April 4 , 2017. Like last year's 100 Day Project and the year before that, I have a four part design in mind.  To get people interested in starting their own 100 Day Project, I am including an article I wrote last spring to encourage my readers to jump in and join me. It really is a game changer. I created such a strong creative practice that benefitted me in so many ways that I never stopped (except for Spring and Winter breaks😄). 

If you have any questions, feel free to email me. The key to success is defining a do-able scope of what you will be doing every day to be able to keep going and how you will use it at the end for a satisfying conclusion.  

Mid-March finds me steadily busy completing my 25 Day pieces for our upcoming Abstract Ecology art show with my talented daughter Maggie Warren. My mind is full of details of rod pockets, fusing on quilt labels, etc. The best Studio Notes I can offer with my cluttered mind today is an article from last spring about my Four Elements series. These  four 25 Day pieces have been on my mind since I am busy getting them ready for the upcoming art show.  The article talks a bit about my thought process behind the designs. At the end of the article I talk about one of my favorite design elements of adding small pieces of fabric into the daily square design for visual interest and texture. I am including a photo of my favorite 25 Day piece in the series that I just completed, Sky.

I must not be explaining my 25 Day series very well. Here's why I think this may be true. For over 15 years, we have been getting our coffee from a local coffee shop, Newport Coffee House that roasts their own coffee onsite. I gave the manager one of my cards with my website information and said I would be happy to add some color to his walls with some of my art. The manager emailed later and asked if I was interested in displaying my art in his shop.  After looking at my website, he said the squares are small so we would need quite a few to display. When I read this, I decided I have not been explaining the 25 Day series very well. So I will try to do a better job in this article.

My daughter Maggie and I have a Mother Daughter Art show coming up in April 2017. We are both showing our work at a local Park District building in Deerfield, Illinois. The facility is called the Patty Turner Center and has a lot of meaning for our family because my dad is an active member of this senior center.

As people who read my Studio Notes know, I am an artist who makes abstract art with fabric. My daughter Maggie is an artist proficient in many different media.  She is an illustrator who draws animals and their environs.  Her wildlife photography is wide-ranging from birds in local prairies to cuttlefish in Australia's Great Barrier Reef to turtles on Florida beaches.