One Week 100 People 2026

I have participated several times in the One Week 100 People Challenge organized by Marc Holmes and Liz Steel. The purpose is to encourage artists to increase their sketching of people in a short amount of time. I try to sketch from life, although sketching from photos or videos is allowed. (There are no real rules.) If you need longer than 1 week that is fine too. This year it was set to start on March 9th, but I decided to sketch some people at Chelsea Market when I was there with the NYC Urban Sketchers. The hardest part of this challenge for me is finding locations where there are a lot of people.

Here are sketches #1-12. All the sketches are of other sketchers at Chelsea Market.

When I returned home to Long Island I looked for people down by the bay and in town. I did sneak in a few of the landscaping guys from our complex too.

The next day I headed to The Bean, a coffee shop in Sayville for these sketches. I snuck in a selfie too (#37).

Yesterday and today I decided to go to the newly opened Whole Foods Market here in Holbrook. I knew they had a spot with tables and a view of the checkout counters. That worked pretty well and I was able to

 finish my 100 people.

These guys were at the pizza place where I had lunch today.

These final four were also at Chelsea Market in the Pearl River Mart sketch.

One Week 100 People - Final Sketches

Here are my final sketches for the 100 People challenge. First I joined my friend, Suzala at the Nassau County Firefighters Museum. Two of the firemen working there snuck into my sketch. (They loved that!) Then I still needed 2 more people so we went to 99 Ranch Market, an Asian grocery store that has a food court. I ended up doing a total of 102 sketches!

 

One Week 100 People - Day 6

 Somehow I miscounted and thought I was finished...but I wasn't. Here are people #85-96 done at the Sayville Bean Coffee House, and a few people sketched at Underworld Productions, a location that has areas set up to resemble sets from the past. There was an area set up like an old-fashioned bathroom, living room, den, bedroom, as well as the soda shop and the beauty salon. Two models were available for the Patchogue Sketch Club and the Patchogue Photography Club.

Adonna posed in the beauty salon. She was great and we had time for more than one sketch of her.

Our group had Isabella modeling in the soda shop, but only for about 40 minutes. I finished the color at home.

I still have a few more people to sketch tomorrow to reach 100.

One Week 100 People - Day 3

 For my next day of sketching, first I headed to the food court at the mall in Lake Grove. There are always people there and they usually stay put for a while, as long as you start sketching when they sit down to eat. 

I did a second page of sketches there. As I was finishing I felt a presence behind me and heard a male voice laugh and say, "Did I make the cut?" I turned around and found the man who I sketched at the top left of the page looking at the sketches over my shoulder. He was thrilled to be in the collection.

I wanted to get a little more sketching done so I went to a local supermarket. Once again I had to stand to sketch these. When I finished this page I was up to 51 sketches.

One Week 100 People - Day 2

 My second day of sketching for the challenge wasn't as exciting. I headed to a local Panera Bread in Bohemia for my sketching. I like that one rather than one that is closer to me because of the setup. They have tables in the front that face the counter where people order as well as the tablets that they can order on. But I didn't sit there at first. I sat at a table that faced some of the occupied booths as well as a table with three women playing what I think was mahjong. That gave me a few options for my sketches.

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When I had sketched that view I moved to the front and sketched some of the people placing their orders. At the end of day 2 I had sketched 31 people. 

Goodbye 2023...Hello 2024

 My apologies...I the draft of this post was never sent yesterday so here it is a little late.

2023 was a fun year! Here are a few special happenings for me in 2023.

I once again participated in some challenges hosted by different artists that I follow or that were new to me. 

Birgit Koopson had a 30 Day Gel Printing Challenge. I had a gel plate but hadn't used it much so I followed Birgit's prompts and demos...and even a few of her full-length videos. Here are a few of the pages I did. I hope to be doing more in 2014.

Mark Holmes and Liz Steel challenged artists all over the world to join their "One Week 100 People" Challenge. Of course I couldn't resist. I try to do this challenge every year.

Another challenge was the 30x30 Direct Watercolor Challenge...no pencil lines first!

Then there were the things I was able to return to like sketching at the Museum of Natural History. 

I hadn't been there since 2015!

I took part in some fun events locally.

For the South Bay Art Association"s Plein Air Paintout I painted along Main Street in Bellport among other locations. My painting won 1st prize at our ehibition at Bellport Day in July.

I took part in the Long Island Maritime Museum's "Art From the Wreckage" auction and sale. The paintings were done on shingles that had come off the boathouse in one of our storms. They had a similar sale a few years ago and raised quite a bit of money for the museum.

So far two of my pieces sold.

One of the best things I did this this year was I traveled out of the country with Jerry and returned to Venice. I sketched every day. It wasn't an easy trip to take with his handicap but we did it!

This year I challenged myself to work on my iPad with Procreate. Again I watched a lot of videos and have had some success. It takes a lot of time to make the tools work the way you want. I will continue working with Procreate in 2024.

I hope you year held some special memories. My thanks to all of you for your support and encouragement in 2023. It makes what I do extra special. I appreciate your visiting my blog and leaving your comments.

Wishing you a wonderful, joyful, happy and healthy 2024!

 

One Week 100 People - Day 5

 I kept thinking about where to go to sketch today that would have people, and I decided that it was best to just bite the bullet and go to Starbucks. I don't like their coffee and they have very limited choices of decaf tea, so I'm not usually thrilled to sit there and drink while I sketch. Also several of the Starbucks here are closed for renovations. I think they are making all of them have a drive-thru window. Anyway I went to the nearest open one and it worked out better than I thought. The last time I went to this one it was very dim and not really good to see what I was sketching. It was much brighter today (or maybe there was more sunshine coming thru the windows). So here are my last 10 sketches which include some customers and some employees.

One Week 100 People - Day 4

 I wanted to sketch some people outdoors today but the pickings were slim. I went to the park...no people. I went to the dock...no people. I ended up backing into a parking spot outside my local Stop & Shop. It worked well until a jumbo SUV parked to my left and blocked most of my view.

Then I headed over to Sayville Bean Coffee House to get people in an actual scene. 

The view here was pretty good.

Only 10 more to go!

One Week 100 People - Day 3

 Today I went to the dining court at the South Shore Mall in Bayshore. I changed tables a few times to get different views. Here are my sketches #53 - 69.

Tonight was my sketch night with the Patchogue Sketch Club. When I finished my sketch for the theme tonight I sketched a few of our members. Here are #70 - 74.