Just Dave's Creations: 365 Days of Creatures

David Hoffmann in Minneapolis, Minnesota after completing a year working with color is now spending a year making 365 Days of Creatures...

Why did you decide to do this project?
I did finish last years 365 day project around the theme of color.  I decided to continue on this year.  I changed it though to doing a different creature a day for a year.  The highlight of las year's blog for me was the days I created a creature, like the sad frogs or monsters or the snowmen.

I decided to continue on with this, because I had so many people encourage me to continue.  They looked forward to the things I created and it became part of their week.  It also became a habit, a rather fun one. I'm even more excited this year because of the new direction.

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life?
My students (I'm an elementary art teacher) now ask weekly what creature did you do today?  They get really excited to see what I came up with.   It shows them things I do as an artist and they can be
inspired to try new things as well.

My hope is to take these creatures and turn them eventually into larger pieces, greeting cards, t-shirt ideas, etc...  It's just plain fun and paper art is a medium I love, but failed to ever spend much time in.

See all of Dave's creatures HERE.

365 Creative Creatures

Kenneth Provine in Los Lunas, New Mexico is making 365 Creative Creatures...

Why did you decide to do this project? My wife discovered the Skull-A-Day project and became inspired, I followed suit upon looking at other projects.  I am a creative person but I rarely take the time to allow the creativity to come out. I wanted to do this project so that I could share my love of animals and practice my art skills.  I really want to find a medium that I could possibly focus on later, this journey may help find it.

How has doing a yearlong/daily project affected your life? Well after just about a week, I have gained confidence about my own work.  After receiving positive comments from friends, family and strangers on some of my art I feel proud to share the artifacts without hesitation.  I also have been noticing myself seeing and observing creatures within other objects.  Ideas have been fling into my head like a river.  I have a giant list of ideas that are ready at anytime.  I hope to continue to make self discoveries along this journey.  I also hope to inspire others just as Noah Scalin and my wife, Yasna have inspired me!

See all of Kenneth's creatures HERE.