#OneWeek100People 2024 : Day Four : Finishing up my Watercolors!

Ok, I did it! Day Four; finished my 50 in watercolor!

I really wanted to do 100 in color. In fact, I wanted to do 100 every day this year! 500 in a week! – But I’m a long way from achieving that.

It’s kind of an interesting goal. 500 in a week. I haven’t really tried it for real, but I keep thinking about it ;) A genuinely stupid idea, that might actually be amazing if you accomplished it.

You’d really need to be organized. Like – the biggest problem is the wet drawings. If I was using dry media I could just work in a book. But you can’t do that in watercolor – too much waiting to turn the page, to much re-visiting the drawings for darks.

I used to tape each page to it’s own (coroplast) drawing board, but you can only really carry six boards in your average day bag. I have used larger boards. Maybe that’s the trick – bring a set of 16×20″ panels – draw 10-15 figures per sheet. I’ve done this multi-drawing-page thing in life drawing classes for this exact reason. Dealing with the wet sheets when you don’t have a lot of room to work.

But you’d need 6-8 coroplast panels. or perhaps fewer if you taped paper to both sides. A person could carry that all day, especially if you made some kind of sling. But a big board can be impossible on a windy day. It might be much better to do this in summer. March is still too soon in Montreal. I’ve been working small this week, with only a tiny shoulder bag, because I’m in and out of the subway and the cafes. With the big panels you’re stuck working outside, practically speaking.

Or; maybe I could go back to books, and just bring three books. They are making sketchbooks thinner these days so you could cut down on the extra weight. If you alternate, and it’s a sunny day, it might be possible to go from spread to spread and have dry pages by the time you’re back to book one. I know that would work on a hot dry day, especially if there’s a breeze.

See, there’s enough ideas out there to do #OneWeek100People more than once a year :) It sounds like I need to try a midsummer marathon :) Let me know if anyone is interested in doing it more often! Maybe it could be three times a year.