I’ve been making New Year’s resolutions for a long time now and never really lived up to them. This year I feel that for the first time I might actually be able to accomplish some of my goals. I’ve arranged to be home on Fridays now, so that I can spend more time on art. My idea is not to use it as an extra day off, but a working day, so to speak. Most often, my excuse has been that I was too tired when I got home to take up a big project, and I ended up not making much progress. I’m thinking that I will take myself more seriously in any case, which will be a positive thing.
I’ve also been thinking about my system of working, which is to start something and then finish it completely before beginning something else. It’s odd because I really don’t do much else in life this way. Even when I was in school, I used to skip around to random questions when taking exams for instance. I think that a better way to work might be to have different projects going on at once, all at different stages of completion, so that I can skip around a little more. I remember Robert Genn wrote about this at one point in one of his twice weekly letters. He said that at the end of the day, you should stop at an easy point in the work, so that you can begin the next day with a sense of momentum from the onset. I’m thinking of trying something like this and I’ll let you know how it goes.
I’ve been working on my submission for the January Virtual Paintout, which is a challenge where there is a certain location declared every month and then everyone makes artworks based on a scene that they find in Google Street View. This month’s location is Corsica and I’m having fun with it. I might actually go back and do the other month’s challenges even though they have ended.
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