100 Day Challenge, first painting

4/4/2018

I decided the daily challenge would be a small painting, not to necessarily finish one every day, but to devote at least 10 minutes a day to it. Already I have missed the first day but am not fretting. I'll miss more, pretty sure. Here's the first - a majolica painting on a triptych that was glazed and waiting for decoration in the studio. It's approximately 6 x 6, I think, and took an hour to do. I broke from the Italy theme that usually goes on these and tried something different.

In preparation for the 100 days, an hour was spent on Sunday cleaning up the dust and clutter on the drawing table and organizing supplies: watercolors, acrylic paints, colored pencils and markers. I found a packet of "artist trading cards" - 20 - 2.5 x 3.5 blank smooth cards, a mini-canvas board, a blank puzzle, and a 6 x 6 sketch pad. Then, in the studio, I have a stack of triptychs like the one above that have sat there for months.

Everything I plan to use for this challenge is what is already on hand. And an aside: it felt good to clean up the drawing table. It had turned into one of those piles where stuff gets tossed but not dealt with. Annoying every time I walked past it.

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Peggy Crago
o happy clay!

I spent many hours as a child poring over fairy tales books and copying the illustrations. And having grown up in a large family with no room for clutter, I came to appreciate things that were both functional and beautiful. My studio is in the middle of my organic garden. Between gardening and working with clay, it seems like my hands are never clean!

Before ceramics, I spent twenty-five years in fine art and graphic art, including ten years as a sign painter. My work has won several awards, is in galleries across the country, and has been exhibited in national shows.