100 Days of Coffee

Day 100

2010-03-10T07:02:00.003Z

Well - this is it, Day 100! It's going to be a hard habit to break, every morning for the last 100 days it's been - drink a pot of coffee, draw a pot of coffee - now what will I do? Have to credit my Dad for the idea for today's pic, I had a couple of thoughts for the last one but this was the best.
Thanks to Josie Long for thinking up the project, it's been brilliant fun and I have learnt a lot of new techniques which is what I set out to do. I'll really miss looking at everyone else's pics and reading haikus and love stories and looking at photos of gloves etc. Good luck everyone!
I think I need a new project ......

Day 99

2010-03-09T07:06:00.004Z

Can't believe it's day 99 - sad! Over the course of the last 100 days on this blog I've done a few coffee related polls. Here in a nice pie chart are the results! Mmm coffee and pie .....

Day 98

2010-03-08T07:23:00.003Z

I've been doing a lot of research recently on heraldry for a job I'm doing, fascinating stuff. So here is my coffee coat-of-arms

Day 97

2010-03-07T07:55:00.003Z

Really excited to be in the paper today
http://bit.ly/c2CUYW

When I was running out of ideas about mid-way through the project and my family came up with a lot of bad puns (sorry - brilliant plays-on-words!) for me to draw my Grandad came up with 'coffee mourning (morning)' I thought funereal coffee pots were a bit macabre so I went for the day-of-the-dead shrine instead!

Day 96

2010-03-06T07:19:00.003Z

How I feel some mornings!!

Day 95

2010-03-05T07:34:00.005Z

So, for the final few days we've been asked to push our projects a bit further. I've pushed my coffee pot to the starry heights of .... the starry heights.
If your sign is Coffeepottius:
This morning you will enjoy an uplifting feeling from the daily grind. The current celestial climate is urging you to take a break. Whilst Beanus is retrograde you may feel as if something is brewing, just relax, the sky is insisting something refreshing will happen if you take the plunge.

Day 94

2010-03-04T06:51:00.002Z

Whenever I find myself in an arty shop I always want to buy those little fancy bits of paper for scrap-booking. I've never done any scrap-booking and don't really intend to but I just can't resist those little bits of paper. So at least I've got some use out of them now!

Day 93

2010-03-03T07:24:00.003Z

One of my aims with this project was to force myself to use all the scary bits in my art software. I'd tried the dreaded 3d revolve thing before with odd and unexpected results so I thought I'd have another go. My thoughts had turned to chocolate (as they do - fairly regularly!) and I thought I'd make a chocolate easter coffee pot. About as useful as a chocolate teapot!!

Day 92

2010-03-02T08:05:00.002Z

Yesterday was the Indian festival of Holi which is a celebration of the end of winter and involves people throwing coloured powder at each other. It was also St Davids day and the sun even deigned to make an appearance! This got me thinking about spring festivals and was doing a bit of research and ..... excitement....there is an actual coffee festival .... this year ..... in Bath. I live in Bath ..... and you KNOW I like coffee. Whooop !!!

Day 91

2010-03-01T06:43:00.003Z

10.......9........8........

Day 90

2010-02-28T07:12:00.003Z

I've got a notebook by my bed where I write down stuff I remember in the night, usually shopping lists, bills to pay, the occassional creative idea. I was looking through it and a few pages back I had written - 'coffee pot elvis'. Can't remember doing that, I think it was a message from 'the other side' !!

Day 89

2010-02-27T07:15:00.004Z

Another book cover today. This one inspired by my husbands indecipherable and mind-numbing programming books which lie around the house looking smug.

Day 88

2010-02-26T06:39:00.005Z

Picked a random book off the shelf for inspiration for this one - it was 'Andrew's Essential Guide to Beginners Golf'

Day 87

2010-02-25T07:30:00.003Z

Doing a little bit of coffee research for inspiration I discovered the 'bean belt'. Felt like I was back in school.

Day 86

2010-02-24T07:20:00.002Z

A kind of Art Deco poster

Day 85

2010-02-23T09:30:00.003Z

I used to LOVE Super Mario ... this is a slightly modified version!

Day 84

2010-02-22T06:38:00.002Z

Dreaming of summer holidays and sitting outside with a cold beer watching the world go by! mmmmm :)

Day 83

2010-02-21T15:18:00.003Z

I know it's not plagiarism week anymore but when it was I was so impressed with NickD's video charcoal drawings I thought I'd copy! I didn't manage to get it finished then, but it fits in nicely now with the theme this weekend. Drawn using Corel Painter (so I don't get mucky fingertips!) - not a patch on Nick's beautiful drawings.
(With big thanks to hubby for his technical know-how!!)

Day 82

2010-02-20T10:47:00.002Z

I have no idea whether this is going to work or not! I know it's good to keep your brain active and all that, but after this my brain is going into meltdown! So...the challenge was an animation. I'm up for the challenge, but I don't have any animation software. No problem, I find some free to download. That's all ok and I set to learning how to use it. 2 hours later (and yes...there are other things I should be doing!!) I have made a little animation .... great.... except then I realise that this particular software can't export them! grrrr. Anyway, I have something on my pewter that will record what I'm doing so I had to set that up and then play the animation in the programme and record it. So I don't care if it's rubbish....this is the result of about 4 hours of frustration......I'm going for a nap now!!!!

Day 81

2010-02-19T04:57:00.004Z

Trying out some new cartoony techniques in illustrator today. Just a quick scribble .... busy day ahead...which is why I'm blogging at 5am!

Day 80

2010-02-18T06:37:00.007Z

Looking around for things to plagiarise last week I thought I’d try some ‘paper engineering’ à la hundred dayer Emma J. Lannie (http://garglingwithvimto.blogspot.com)
and that train of thought carried on to doing this
shadow picture (is it called a shadow if it’s made
from light....I don’t know). I had a couple of ‘doh!’
moments when I realised I couldn’t put the camera
between the light and the stencil and if I used the flash....no shadow! Anyway, it worked in the end. And yes I know magnolia woodchip is not fashionable anymore but I couldn’t think of a way to photoshop it out!

Day 79

2010-02-17T08:01:00.004Z

Sadly can't get to the Hundred Day meet up, but will wear a hat today in solidarity ...as will coffee pot, if he can decide which one! Hope you all have fun xx

Day 78

2010-02-16T06:56:00.005Z

Daydreaming about being rich and having a garden designer make me a garden with a pool and a coffee pot shaped herb garden!

Day 77

2010-02-15T07:21:00.003Z

Today I am plagiarising a non-hundred dayer - these are Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon enjoying a cup of coffee after having their baths.

Day 76

2010-02-14T06:55:00.003Z

Today I am paying homage to Ann Danylkiw's 'Positive Penguin' 100 day project. http://positivepenguin.posterous.com/
This is my coffee pot mutated into a 'positive penguin'. He's not very original with his homilies but this is plagiarism week!

Day 75

2010-02-13T09:21:00.003Z

Today, inspired by Edward Ross's hundred tiny moments http://www.100tinymoments.blogspot.com/ here are some tiny morning coffee moments

Day 74

2010-02-12T07:54:00.006Z

One of my favourite 100day projects is James Clayton's 'One Hundred Mythical Creatures in Haiku' which is brilliant. http://hundredmythologyhaiku.blogspot.com All I know about mythical creatures is what I learned from watching 'Charmed' (and of course reading Mr Clayton's blog!) so I looked up 'Mythical Coffee Monster' and discovered that apparantly the creature on the Starbuck's logo is a 'Melusine' Don't know why?

I am a day behind with posting. Who knew plagiarism was so complicated. Spent AGES yesterday trying to do something someone else had done. Roped in my long-suffering, very patient husband to help me with the technicals. Faffed and fiddled, but didn't get it finished. So I will have to post Day 73 when I get it worked out.

Day 72

2010-02-10T19:49:00.007Z

So...it's 'plagiarism week' - hmmmm.... had to play catch-up today with having been away and that was a hard one. There seem to be a few 'hundred-dayers' doing poetry and one I look at every now and again is TaunaLen's http://timelesslyricalephemera.blogspot.com/
I have absolutely NO ability when it comes to creative writing and poetry especially to me is a mystical art practised by very clever people and wizards. I didn't even really know what a haiku was, I had to wiki it. So at the same time I learnt about 'haiga' - the illustrations that sometimes go with them which is more up my street.

Anyway, in the spirit of 'homage week' I have tried a haiku. Please don't laugh.

dark morning kitchen
Mr. coffee pot waits for me
to boil the kettle

Day 71

2010-02-10T17:34:00.003Z

So, I'm back from muriel painting! This may be a bit of a cheat but as the last couple of days has been full of creative challenge and coffee has been needed to fuel it, here is Oliver's completed, oceanified room and .....introducing.....my brother's coffee pot

Day 70

2010-02-08T07:52:00.005Z

Been reading 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (which is brilliant) - I'm not usually into sci-fi stuff but it got me thinking about aliens, then I thought about coffee........

Won't be posting for a couple of days...I've got a job to do for a big, important client (i.e. I am going up to paint a fish muriel on my nephew's bedroom wall ... what do you mean 'don't call me Muriel?') but i will be doing my 100days and will post when I get back.

Day 69

2010-02-07T06:37:00.002Z

I've always really liked fruit and veg crates (the wooden ones) even though I know some of them have deadly spiders inside.

Day 68

2010-02-06T09:18:00.005Z

Fellow hundred dayer Ryan Millar suggested the idea of a book cover. I might do a few of these...textbook, trashy chicklit, sci -fi ....anyway, today's is 'modern, over-hyped, probably-slightly-boring classic' (My days of working in a book shop serve me well here!)

Day 67

2010-02-05T06:10:00.002Z

Today's picture in the style of Matt the Telegraph cartoonist, suggested by Richard, my brother.

p.s. I've got a daily coffee consumption poll going, have a look down there on the right and let me know 'how much do you drink?'

Day 66

2010-02-04T08:27:00.002Z

My family love puns.....i mean they really love puns. So when I mentioned i was running out of coffee pot ideas this is the sort of thing they come up with!
Today is 'The Expresso Train'....thanks Gran! Grandad, I'm working on your 'coffee mourning'

Day 65

2010-02-03T07:23:00.003Z

A sort of lego coffee pot

Day 64

2010-02-02T06:35:00.002Z

So ... the 100 day subject is Maths. I got that horrible sinking feeling when i read that like i used to just before double maths in school! Never my favourite subject!
Anyway I found a tutorial on making pictures out of numbers and had a go. I probably could have fiddled around with it a lot more but i had one of those 'life's too short' moments.

Day 63

2010-02-01T08:27:00.003Z

In days of old, when knights were bold, and coffee pots weren't invented...someone had to come up with the idea.

Day 62

2010-01-31T08:26:00.002Z

'What' you may ask 'does this picture have to do with coffee pots?'....well....doing something else in Adobe illustrator I had cause to visit one of the areas i pretend doesn't exist as i have no idea how it works or what it does...the 3d extrude and bevel malarkey. So this is my revolved and wireframed coffee pot which looked to me like an old fashioned bird cage. I still don't know how all that 3d stuff works but at least I was brave and clicked on the unknown!!

Day 61

2010-01-30T08:06:00.001Z

I am getting so desperate for new ideas that I am now taking requests! Thanks for today's, Mum!

Day 60

2010-01-29T09:42:00.004Z

Finding myself a bit strapped for time at the moment so the coffee pots are quickies. Playing around in illustrator this time.

Day 59

2010-01-28T07:53:00.004Z

some stylish vector people having coffee

Day 58

2010-01-27T08:30:00.004Z

Bit lacking in creative energy this morning so i just had a play in photoshop. This is Cupid on his coffee break.

Day 57

2010-01-26T08:00:00.003Z

Still with the love theme and trying out a different style, here is a romantic breakfast-in-bed picture done in a kind of retro 70s style.

day 56

2010-01-25T06:16:00.004Z

My link to the 'love' theme today is Robbie Burns! He wrote some romantic poetry. I looked him up and to be honest he looks like a bit of a sap (in my opinion) so I have made my coffeepot into a totally cliched bagpipe-playing, ginger, sporran toting, kilt wearing Scots thing with a flock of wild haggis flying past. But I will recite my favourite poem in honour of Burns night....
'There was a man from Huddersfield,
He had a cow that wouldn't yield.
The reason that it wouldn't yield...
It didn't like it's udders feeled'

Day 55

2010-01-24T08:05:00.002Z

joining in with the love theme .. i'd like to introduce...Mr and Mrs coffeepot

Day 54

2010-01-23T06:46:00.003Z

I sometimes do illustrations for children's book author Diane Dickson, including the lovely series of stories about the adventures of Bert the fox. So with permission from the author, Bert and his friend Sid the ox have been let out for the day to have a cup of coffee in the park!

Day 53

2010-01-22T07:45:00.003Z

After reading the discussion on the 100 day facebook page about a 'mid-project crisis' I realised I (probably) won't be drawing coffee pots for ever! With that in mind i started to think about the potential inspiration that would be missed later on in the year.....e.g.......hallowe'en coffeepot (and birthday coffeepot, summer holiday coffeepot, bonfire night coffeepot, easter coffeepot....) Guess which one this is!

Day 52

2010-01-21T09:20:00.001Z

coffee pot as Madonna circa 1984

Day 51

2010-01-20T09:13:00.002Z

The ideas may start to become a little bit tenuous now as I scrape around in the barrel bottom of my brain! This is my coffee pot as a lighthouse, just because I wanted to draw a lighthouse picture (lighthouses are one of my favourite things)

Day 50

2010-01-19T08:06:00.004Z

HALFWAY POINT!!

Amazed to be at day 50 of the 100day project! Only the same to do again!! I have definately learnt things I wouldn't have done otherwise doing this, so hopefully I'm already half the better person I'll be by the end!!

For day 50 here are my instructions for making the perfect cup of coffee.

Day 49

2010-01-18T06:31:00.005Z

Apparantly today is the most depressing day of the year! So here is a cheery-uppy cuddly furry coffee pot :)

Day 48

2010-01-17T08:00:00.004Z

Todays pic is dedicated to my lovely nephews Oliver and Charlie. I bet you didn't know coffee pots can be like transformers!!

Day 47

2010-01-16T07:09:00.000Z

coffee pot gets adopted, and someone's not happy about it.

Day 46

2010-01-15T10:05:00.002Z

Many thanks to Paul for letting me tattoo his arm for todays pic. I did sterilise that needle, honest!

Day 45

2010-01-14T08:24:00.001Z

some digital patchwork quilting

Day 44

2010-01-13T08:13:00.005Z

This week I made some piccalilli and I wanted to make my own labels for the jars. I was looking around on google for inspiration for an Indian type design and came across 'Rangoli'. I'd never heard of them before, they are pictures made on the floor with coloured sand or rice for special occasions and they're really beautiful. So that gave me the idea for todays 'coffee pot rangoli'

Day 43

2010-01-12T07:07:00.003Z

I didn't go out and spray paint a local wall, I know that's naughty. This was done in photoshop from the comfort of my cosy room!

Day 42

2010-01-11T09:08:00.003Z

One of the things I do is logo design, so i thought i would design myself one for my bit of the hundred days project.

Day 41

2010-01-10T07:33:00.002Z

A Sundayish theme if you're that way inclined! Although I haven't been to church since school (apart from the odd wedding) I religiously partake in the morning coffee ritual.

Day 40

2010-01-09T09:05:00.004Z

Whilst at the hairdressers yesterday I noticed a cup of coffee being served to another customer in a very fancy coffee pot. I am becoming obsessed with coffee pots and notice them all over now, so thought I would do a selection of different types. Had to force myself to stop at nine!!

Day 39

2010-01-08T06:54:00.002Z

Todays picture very tenuously inspired by Elvis' 75th birthday (the King, Casinos, Las Vegas .... ok I know it's a long shot)
Done all in illustrator with a bit of texture added to the green in photoshop.

Day 38

2010-01-07T07:26:00.004Z

This picture inspired by Lowry, the dreary time of year and 'Where's Wally' (find the coffee pot!)
Drawn straight into illustrator then some texture and shading added in photoshop.

Day 37 ii

2010-01-06T11:20:00.001Z

Frosty the snowman is partial to a nice warming cup of coffee!!

Day 37

2010-01-06T09:39:00.001Z

A new technique for me, this one, but thought i would make the most of the tools to hand!!

Day 36

2010-01-05T06:39:00.000Z

Something glittery and shiny was the subject...so here is the coffee pot I will have when I'm rich and famous!!

Day 35

2010-01-04T06:43:00.001Z

Today I have tried a Chinese style picture. The thing I like best about this pic is the font, it looks like Chinese writing but actually it says coffee pot in English letters made to look Chinese! (apologies to any Chinese people who can see it looks nothing like!) I thought that was great .... I'm a fontaholic!
Anyway, this is a picture of the 'coffee ceremony' - if it existed.

Day 34

2010-01-03T16:34:00.001Z

Went into town today and passed a coffee shop with a sign outside showing a picture of a coffee cup made out of coffee beans....i thought 'i could do that...'
It's a lot harder than you'd think. My first attempt looked awful but in the interests of the project and the idea being to improve over the 100 days I am showing you! The second one wasn't that much better and it was a PAIN, cutting and pasting individual beans in photoshop to try to get it to look right. I pretty much gave up in the end not happy with the result, but glad i tried it out....so i know not to bother trying again!!!

Day 33

2010-01-02T17:47:00.001Z

Today's picture inspired by Mondrian. Clean and simple after the excesses of Christmas. Obviously Mondrian put huge amounts of thought and planning into the composition of his work and aimed to 'create an objective art of discipline whose laws would somehow reflect the order of the universe' ... whereas I have just drawn some red, yellow and blue squares around a picture of a coffee pot!

Day 32

2010-01-01T13:13:00.000Z

Happy New Year 2010

The first cup of coffee of the year should be a special one!

Day 31

2010-01-01T10:47:00.000Z

Did most of this yesterday but had to finish it off this morning when the sight of a champagne glass is slightly less appealing!

Day 30

2009-12-31T08:45:00.001Z

As mentioned I have been away the last couple of days, this involves a lot of driving up the M4 and M5 in my trusty if elderly Dave (blue Nissan Micra) so todays pic is a sort of travel collage.

Day 29

2009-12-31T08:38:00.001Z

For the last couple of days I have been staying at my Mum and Dad's for a 'second Christmas'. Whenever I stay with them my Dad brings me a cup of coffee and 2 pieces of chocolate before I get up (spoilt...me!?) This is such a treat that I thought it deserved to be todays bit of illustration, featuring my Dad and his coffee pot!

Day 28

2009-12-28T09:19:00.001Z

Back to the art history books. Today's pic is inspired by Paul Klee who liked to 'take a line for a walk'. I haven't done him justice at all, he did some gorgeous paintings. I wonder when I'm trying to recreate their techniques in Corel painter or photoshop if these old artists would be horrified or interested. I like to think they'd want to have a go!

Day 27

2009-12-27T08:45:00.000Z

Bit lacking in time and inspiration today...drew a very quick scrappy drawing of coffee pot in his natural habitat and then coloured it in photoshop and played around with some texture.

Day 26

2009-12-26T07:35:00.001Z

Boxing day already and over quarter way through the 100 days!! Got up early to do this one ...I am one of the lucky peeps who gets to go to work on Boxing Day!! :)

Day 25

2009-12-25T11:34:00.001Z

Ferrero Rocher for breakfast....
it must be Christmas!!

Day 24

2009-12-24T07:44:00.001Z

I'd like to say I got a passing child to do this one but no....it's all my own work!! Happy Christmas Eve!!

Day 23

2009-12-23T14:57:00.001Z

Day 23 - Pop Art
Think maybe the spots are too small...looks like they have measles but no more time to play.
Happy Christmas eve, eve everybody!

Day 22

2009-12-22T06:24:00.001Z

How else do you think they got the energy to hunt bison?!

Day 21

2009-12-21T08:44:00.001Z

This is something they get you to do in art classes
- draw an object in one line without taking the pencil off the paper.

Day 20

2009-12-20T09:38:00.000Z

What my coffee pot would look like if it were a Disney princess!

Day 19

2009-12-19T16:18:00.001Z

Back to Corel painter for todays pic. Heavily inspired by Rene Magritte (if he were alive today I'd be worried!)

One thing this project had done is make me pick up Norbert Lynton's very dry 'The Story of Modern Art' which was on my reading list for uni. Bought it in the first week and never opened it once, but it's coming in handy now!

Day 18

2009-12-18T08:19:00.001Z

Guess the theme!

Day 17

2009-12-17T08:44:00.001Z

I love retro advertising. 'Mad Men' is one of my all time favourite TV shows. This one done in illustrator again which must be a lot easier than the old days of actual cutting with scissors and pasting with real glue!!

Day 16

2009-12-16T15:05:00.001Z

Today I thought I would introduce you to coffee pots cool best friend...travel cafetiere mug! I found a brilliant tutorial showing how to make a photo look old using photoshop and so that is my creative lesson of the day.

Day 15

2009-12-15T06:27:00.001Z

'still life with fruit'

Coffee pot has gone all traditional! My main aim in this project was to try out lots of different creative styles I wouldn't normally use. This was done in Corel painter, I'm too impatient to use real paint!!

Day 14

2009-12-14T08:31:00.001Z

A suggested theme
for the '100 days'
project is Superheroes,
so I have created
'SuperCoffeeGirl'
who can respond to
any lack of caffeine
related disaster at
lightning speed!

Day 13

2009-12-13T07:54:00.000Z

This was a pretty boring pen and watercolour sketch that I scanned into photoshop and then had a play with some effects, and it came out quite.......purple!

Day 12

2009-12-12T06:58:00.001Z

What a nice surprise to be featured on the 100days blog!
http://www.hundreddays.net/?p=126
Really enjoying the challenge and seeing what everyone's up to!

Todays picture isn't inspired by anyone in particular but by all the wonderful children's picture books I am surrounded by at work!

Drawn on scrapbook paper in ink then coloured in photoshop.

Day 11

2009-12-11T14:03:00.000Z

Day 11

Manga boy has a cup of coffee

initially hand drawn and scanned then traced and coloured in illustrator. And yes his coffee has super anti-gravity properties!!

Day 10

2009-12-10T08:21:00.001Z

Inspired by one of my faves - Joan Miro
illustrator and photoshop

Day 9

2009-12-09T08:36:00.000Z

'Coffee Pot with Triangle'

Inspired by Carlo Carra's 'Still life with Triangle'. Hope he wouldn't mind. I like to think he'd be interested to see a digital version! Drawn in illustrator and finished in photoshop.

Day8

2009-12-08T10:00:00.000Z

coffee pot tessellations

Day 7

2009-12-07T10:38:00.000Z

Not sure what style you'd call this. It started off being inspired by posters from 60s and 70s but now it looks a bit African. Hmmm. I may take the first idea further later on. Like the colour combination though.

Day 6

2009-12-06T17:54:00.000Z

My coffee pot got Andy Warholed!!

Day 5

2009-12-05T17:15:00.000Z

A kind of aboriginal sort of ethnicy naivey style. At least it's colourful!!!

Day 4

2009-12-04T16:18:00.001Z

a quick scrappy digital drawing

Day 3

2009-12-03T17:31:00.000Z

A very quick scrappy pencil drawing of my coffee pot. Very busy today but I am aiming to keep to this even if I have to put some crap up here.

Day 2

2009-12-02T10:00:00.001Z

The first thing I wanted to do was give my coffee pot some cover-girl airbrushing and add some drama. So this is my coffee pot after being photoshopped.

Day 1

2009-12-02T09:15:00.000Z

http://www.hundreddays.net/

As part of the 100 day project I have decided to create an image of the same object every day for 100 days. The aim of this challenge is to develop my artistic style and try out as many ways as possible of illustrating the same thing. My subject is my coffee pot because I wanted to use something very familiar that I see every day. My coffee pot is a VERY IMPORTANT object. I love my coffee pot and this is my homage to it!

DAY ONE:
A photo of my coffee pot, subject of study for the next 100 days.