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The 100 Day Project: Make More Art

The power of making art, creative community, and more with artists, makers, and creatives. Each episode dives into a guest’s experience with building a creative habit, revealing how daily creative rituals can lead to profound personal and professional growth. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or just beginning your creative journey, this podcast offers practical insights, inspiring stories, and a supportive community for anyone looking to build a sustainable creative practice. Produced and hosted by Lindsay Jean Thomson, music by Peter Fenn.
About The 100 Day Project:
The 100 Day project is a free global art project and online community. Every year, thousands of people all around the world participate. Anyone can join (yes, that means you!). How it works: we pick a start date, you pick a project. Beginning on the start date, do your project every day for 100 days and document your process. Find out more and sign up for the newsletter at www.the100dayproject.org.

Latest Episodes:

How a daily art practice can transform your life with artist Rukmini Poddar Feb 19, 2025

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Rukmini Poddar is an artist and the author of Draw Your Feelings: A Creative Journal to Help Connect with Your Emotions through Art (and a HUGE evangelist for doing #The100DayProject!).

Rukmini has participated for over nine (!) consecutive years. She’s a real testament to the power of a daily practice – in this episode, she shares how the simple challenge of creating something every day for 100 days reshaped her career and creative identity.

Rukmini’s words of wisdom about doing #The100DayProject:

Little commitments can lead to big transformations: something as simple as a small daily action can have hugely transformative effects on you as an artist and human.
The biggest gift is trust: showing up for yourself day-after-day builds trust and confidence.
There’s magic in sharing: the act of sharing can become as transformative as your creative practice itself.
Follow your curiosity: you can’t predict where it will lead you – and that’s the point! Allow yourself to explore new areas of interest and creative practices and unexpected things will happen.
Vulnerability resonates: being open and sharing encourages other people to do the same.

Make your art practice consistent and joyful with Olivia Lin Feb 12, 2025

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Artist Olivia Lin shares her journey to building a daily creative practice with The 100 Day Project. Through the challenge, Olivia learned the importance of setting realistic goals, planning ahead, and embracing imperfection. She found that simplifying the creative process — like preparing materials in advance or focusing on small, achievable tasks — helped her stay consistent.

Beyond personal growth, Olivia discovered the deep sense of community within The 100 Day Project. She connected with fellow artists through social media, building lasting friendships and finding encouragement in a supportive environment. She emphasizes that sharing work publicly, despite fears of judgment, can lead to meaningful connections, unexpected opportunities, and even viral success.

How to have fun with art with artist and illustrator Lindsay Stripling Feb 05, 2025

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Deepen your creative process and have more fun by finding ways to play and get curious. We dive into habit stacking for artists, embracing imperfection, and staying human in a world that often demands perfection. Whether you’re a professional artist or just starting, Lindsay’s insights will help you rediscover the fun in making art while building sustainable creative habits.

Listen in for:
🎨 How to get playful and experiment with your art
🧠 The power of curiosity in overcoming creative blocks
💡 Fun ways to habit stack for a more consistent creative practice

Keywords: Lindsay Stripling interview, making art fun, creative habits, habit stacking, staying creative, artist mindset, illustration tips, overcoming creative blocks, creativity and play, art process.

Making art and creative community with Anna Brones Jan 29, 2025

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Make art by honoring your creative cycles and connecting with creative communities. In this episode, artist and author Anna Brones shares how she balances input and output, and how allowing flexibility in creative structures can lead to more sustainable and fulfilling artistic practices.

Insights:

Creativity is like breathing—both inhaling (inspiration) and exhaling (creation)
Creative practices benefit from structure, but that structure can change and adapt
It's crucial to recognize and honor periods of incubation and slower creative moments

"Structures only serve us as they serve us." – Anna Brones

About Anna Brones:
Anna is a writer, artist, and educator based in the Pacific Northwest. She works as a papercut artist, hand cutting illustrations from single pieces of paper, and is the author of several books. She produces Creative Fuel, a newsletter and podcast, and is the founder of Creative Fuel Collective.

How to work through creative blocks with artist Elle Luna Jan 22, 2025

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Art, creativity, and the creative process. Our conversation explores how to start making art, the transformative power of daily creative practice, and how Elle works through creative blocks.

About Elle Luna:
Elle Luna is a designer, painter, and writer — most well known for her 2015 book The Crossroads of Should and Must, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. She previously worked as a designer at IDEO, with teams on apps and websites, including MIT, Medium, Mailbox, and Uber, and facilitated the global, online project #The100DayProject, encouraging people to take one step toward what they must do every day for 100 days. Her current studio practice combines art-making with Grof Holotropic Breathwork, exploring how creativity and conscious breathing can guide us toward our own innate wisdom and wholeness. You can find Elle at elleluna.art where she shares updates about her painting practice and upcoming workshops.

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#The100DayProject Podcast Trailer Jan 18, 2025

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What happens when you commit to showing up for your creativity every single day? In this trailer for #The100DayProject Podcast, host Lindsay Jean Thomson introduces a season of conversations with artists, designers, and makers about developing a creative practice, finding your voice, and building community. Featuring insights from Elle Luna, Rukmini Poddar, Anna Brones, Lindsay Stripling, and Olivia Lin, we explore how daily creative practice can transform not just our art, but our lives. From working through creative blocks to finding joy in the process, these conversations reveal the power of consistent practice and the importance of creative community.