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#the100dayproject2023 -#100daysofeggcups Day 1

 

The 100 Day Project is a free, global art project. Every year, thousands of people all around the world commit to 100 days of exploring their creativity. Anyone can join. The idea is simple: choose a project, do it every day for 100 days, and share your process on Instagram with the hashtag #The100DayProject...

Brochure from the Cressida Campbell exhibition , National Art Gallery 


This year I am going to make 10 mixed media art folding books as it is the 10th year of #the100dayproject. In the weeks preceding this starting date, I changed my plans a number of times. I first thought of making some books on themes and then last week I went to see an amazing exhibition of woodcut prints by Cressida Campbell. One of the brochures I picked up at the exhibition suggested an exercise of drawing things from a collection on a shelf. It so happens that I collect egg cups ... When I discussed the idea of making folding books  opening out as if viewing  items on s shelf ,  my friends thought the idea of  featuring my egg cups was a great idea. 



Here is Day 1 .... the dark blue egg cup is a paper cut out and folded at the opening of the book so it appears on the front and inside and the other one is drawn with felt tipped pens and coloured pencils, with a water coloured egg. I am devoting 30minutes each day to this project.... every 10 days, I hope to finish one folding book, so that by the end of 100 days, I will have 10 completed accordion style books, 



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