#30×30, 2025, Day 11: How to do 20 Paintings in a Day!
So I did 20 paintings today!
(I don’t know why I didn’t do 30. That would have made more sense considering the name of this marathon :)
That brings my grand total to 58 – and it’s only Day 11 :) Not that anyone’s counting, that would be silly :)
Now – these ‘paintings’ are only 2×2″ square; so some people would say they shouldn’t count.
It would be kind of hilarious to put them in a gallery :) In a giant gold frame! :)
But really – if you blow them up to full screen would you really say they’re not finished? I don’t see why not? They have all the complexity you’d want in a wall painting. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the composition. They happen to be a bit dark; a bit contrast-y; but that’s ok – sometimes I like that.
So this is round two in my side-project to make ‘black and white’ Notan, with the intention to pull from these later on to create wall paintings. The challenge to future me is redoing these, presumably improving them, but not losing what I like about the composition.
I have no evidence this will work :) but I like to dream big :)
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Citizen Sketcher 
Wow Marc. You are prolific and energetic. I don’t know how you can work ‘so small?” That’s super difficult for me. I love #5 because of the lighter colors of brown, the winding river & horizon line, then #9 because of the location of the horizon line (with a light city scape?), the “road?” at the bottom middle leading the viewer into the painting, and #12 with the lower horizon line, stormy sky and winding river leading the viewer into the painting. Beautiful work! I think putting them all together in a large gold frame is a great idea.
These are great, love your personal challenge and to me they are beautiful little paintings at just 2 x 2. Congrats!
20 in a day? That’s superhero-level productivity!
Hi Marc,
I absolutely love these! Well done you! They are brilliant!
I think your suggestion of a gold frame is so right.
Wondering what colours you used – I would love to see a video of you doing them. The colours are gorgeous.
Thanks so much for sending
Best wishes
Amanda
PS I did a very good course of yours a number of years ago – it was with Crafty or something – I learned a lot and you taught it well. I’m hoping you will get me back to making art again with these very inspiring paintings.