200 Days is a travel art project of my own making where I traveled through Europe and created a watercolor everyday of a street scene I found. 12 cities, 7 countries, 200 days and 200 drawings.

I created this project out of a deep need to step away from the hustle and get back to drawing for drawing’s sake. I dreamed up my dreamiest itinerary to spend days discovering life’s happenstance moments that are so beautiful they scream out to be drawn. Scream! I wanted to capture that beauty, show you what I see and remind us all of the world’s magic.

The last time I did a daily drawing project of this scale was 2016, One Year of Buildings. Since then I have drawn many places for friends, clients, and I truly love it. There’s so much joy, satisfaction and connection in creating images for people to remember a place or a person or a time.

But before this trip my drawings felt stiff and the lines felt stilted, not as alive as they have once been. Drawing requires relaxing into it, giving up control and just being an instrument. That’s when lines and brushstrokes have life and feeling. This project is a return to the powerful tool of a long-term daily project, like a shock to the heart and a dose of growth hormones.