A Diary of Becoming - Round Two - Sept 09 Roundup Tweet

My artistic journey has begun well.

And so you want details yes? That's what this series is all about...





Good Stuff

• September was quite a month. This website and blog received a complete and utter overhaul. Hooray.

• Go elopement. I got married and disappeared out of mobile range on honeymoon for a week. Hooray.
  

• I wrote to each and every one of the people I mentioned in my last diary of becoming post to say thankyou to them for being such wonderful inspirations. And was chuffed to even get a few replies. Hooray.

• That application to the Iphoneography blog to be a featured artist for the SoFoBoMo 'Found Creatures' was a success. Hooray.

• The planning session was grand. And extensive. And I quickly realised that pulling everything - hints, strategies, ideas - from my head, my emails, my bookmarks, various handouts, notebooks and books was going to take way more than one session. And that was and is fine. It's going great. It's wonderful to have one place to put all my ideas and notes as they come up. A few more sessions and it will be ready to move from collecting information to being a resource to decide on priorities the Action! plan). And it's such a simple system. An hour every day or so of gathering. And just a folder with dividers for different sections such as timesavers, first things first, tracking & testing, blogging, expert status, online marketing, real world marketing, improve art, and finances. So simple. So useful. Hooray.

Not So Good Stuff

Um, art making.

Once again, what is my goal in all this?
To make a living as a professional practising fine artist

And what do artists do? Well, duh, they make art. And what have I been doing? Well, um, webby stuff, emaily stuff, planning stuff, and stuff.

Hmm, I see a pattern. A lack of art-making pattern. So for October, here is my aim:

Make art.

Specifically, but not limited to:

• To get my daily creating habit kickstarted, and to do some learning too, it's time to finish working my way through the exercises in 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain'.
• Finish the 'Modern Cavepaintings' series that is oh-so-close to completion and put it up for sale on Etsy.
• Sit down (or maybe stand on my head) and DO some paint colour charts. These will be useful.
• Oh, and DO that CD cover commission... now due by Nov 5.

Look familiar? Hmm. It's a learning. And it's made me realise that a large part of not being arty creative is not having a space to be creative in. The dining table doesn't work, for various reasons. So this needs a rethink. That's ok. Perhaps the barely-used guest room can be my studio. Whatever the solution ends up being, I now know that I MUST have a dedicated space to create. I am not one of those people who can sit and create anywhere. And if I don't have my space, being on the computer is very very comfortable for me. After all, it's what I've been doing for the last 7 years with 3D animation.

• So I also need my own creative space and
  
• I need to break the computer-all-day habit.

Bring on October.

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