Carolyn A Pappas

I made this sketch last night while thinking about how nice it would be for the snow to start melting soon! Over the past few days, I have been doing some watercolor and colored pencil paintings, but I want to look them over some more before posting.

Yesterday, I did some cleaning up of my work online by deleting two of my old blogs dating back to 2005. I know that nothing is gone forever once posted online, but it felt good to purge some things from the past that I don’t necessarily want to revisit. Plus, most of the traffic was from bots and Google image searches. I also had a number of images ripped off or used for hot-linking. I am not planning on deleting anything on this blog, but I am also more thoughtful about what I post these days.

I still have my work archived on flickr, but I am considering making some of those images private. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I am representing myself and I don’t see the value of having a lot of older and lower quality work available for public viewing.

Do you edit your portfolio from time to time to remove work that doesn’t represent you any longer? I would love to hear what you think.