And so, made it today 40 of the 100th day project. Also made it to Easter weekend so happy Easter everyone!
A very large and intricate stone from 2022. A piece like this — about six inches across — takes several days to complete
I must admit that I have no great ambition for this weekend, just hoping to put the most basic of footprints out there because we have lots to do. A good part of today went with my going to pick up my wife at the ferry after she went to Seattle to visit our daughter. The ferry round trip from our place is about 3 hours and change.
For whatever reason, I never feel particularly creative when I've been on the road for a couple of hours or more. Even though I feel like sitting down and doing nothing when I'm done, that "doing nothing" does not include things like focusing enough to paint on stones or working on social media.
Today's Retreat Stone
Day 40 Stone Painting:
Regardless, I moved forward with this challenge. And in my usual fashion, my creative day starts with painting the 16th stone for the Retreat Project. It feels good to now be past the halfway mark!
I don't feel particularly inspired, but I needed to start with just picking a stone from one of my bins to get painting on.
This is going to be more work than I had intended!
As I have mentioned previously, there's very little left in my smaller stone bins so I ended up picking out one that really is somewhat larger than I had intended.
However, I had an idea to build on the slight spiral movement I put into yesterday's stone... but doing it differently, on a dark stone with different colors.
Putting the dot pattern in place is painstaking work.
Well, I've already spent a lot more time on this and I had intended, but now I have been more or less sucked in so I guess something else in my life is going to have to give way in order for this to become finished.
So now we have a bit of a "whirlygig" type thing going and I decided to put in some spokes outside and to make the brightness in the stone this bright blue.
This is becoming one of those experiments that will either turn out great, or end up as a garden stone.
Well, instead of me spending a relatively short time on the creative work today it ended up being a major project!
Several hours later, and well after midnight, Here's the final result.
Today's primary stone was a lot more work than I had expected.
It did turn out rather nicely, and it will likely sell during one of our summer shows. As always, it will look even better once it gets a finish coat!
Day 40 Summary and Social Media Bits:
Finished another TWO new stones today: Another Retreat Stone, and and unexpectedly nice spiral stone for show stock - Woo-hoo!
Daily Twitter/X post: Check. Did a picture post with a very large stone.
Daily Facebook Page post: Fail. My energy went into the painting.
Daily Instagram post: Fail. See above!
Other Stuff: As usual, this Hive post; a decent day, all in all... unexpected to get a better stone painted today. Daily shoutout to 
Day 40 completed; this process is becoming a little easier to do, but that doesn't mean I have time for it, and there are other things in my world that are getting attended to less, as a result. So it's really just a shuffling of existing time.
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