Dan Young, Studio

It’s nearly that time of year again. As part of my daily painting challenge/endurance/project I change styles, like a painting chameleon, on the 24th of November each year. I am a couple of months away from the 5th year of ‘Dan Young, Daily’. But this time it’s slightly different and I’m very excited. As you know every day for the last four years (nearly) I haver made, and shown the world, a concise little painting either using oil or watercolour paint or this years digital dailies. During my next daily year I will be making only one painting, one big painting with 365 elements which will be added to each day. The same deal I make the days painting then post it and some witty and wise words on my blog http://www.danyoungdaily.blogspot.com there may even be a animation at the end of the year of the painting growing, as elements get added and obscure other elements Rostand on top of or inside of other things. I can’t wait but I’ve still got 60 or so of this years to do, so I’ll have to. In the meantime I am investigating, and utilising this newfangled crowdfunding . Which is a way of using social media platforms to fund a project by getting a crowd to spread the costs and receive rewards for doing so. It means for the first time I will have (potentially) paid for the materials, and a print run, for next years project before I have started it. I explain it a bit better in the short film on the sponsorship page. In short: I will make preparatory drawings and paintings during the year and these are offered up as rewards for sponsorship. Do please have a watch and bear in mind I’m a painter not a filmmaker ;) http://www.sponsume.com/project/dan-young-daily-1-… I would love to hear of other projects, either daily or crowdfunded.