Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Update: Dates in a Life Project 2019


Now that June is over, I'm at the halfway point in my the Dates in a Life Project, a year-long painting project documenting the number of steps I walk each day. 

Despite rain, hot weather, and a very busy June schedule, I was able to walk 10,000 steps (the icons in red) 16 days, and 3 days I walked over 9000 steps (the big black circles).



Now that the weather is warm to hot, I'll do my best to get to 10,000 or more steps as often as I can. I am not a summer weather person, and it will be a challenge. I'm trying to walk in the morning before it gets too hot, and in the evening when it cools before sunset, something I can't do in the winter because it's too cold at the beginning and end of the day.

In this painting, the season daily background color changes season-to-season. It was Teal Blue for Winter, then Green for Spring, and on June 22, the first day of Summer, I changed the background to Yellow. Autumn will be Indian Yellow Hue, and when Winter starts again in December, I'll change the color back to Teal Blue.

The reason I have the daily background color is to document my daily steps in fractions of 250 steps. As an example, after 2000 steps (which would be the icon with no paint), I'm painting colors to show as close as I can to 2250, 2500, 2750, and then up to 2999, instead of then rounding up to 3000 steps.

Look for updates about July's progress on this painting in early August.