An Art Date
Had an art date with H today, in which there was no art. But! There was goal setting and just overall nice conversation while her husband took our kids to a nearby park. H and I decided to set goals to achieve within the next three months; but for the most part, I want to get my stated stuff done by year's end. If I don't, no biggie, of course, because we are going for a three-month stretch. I just wanted to see if I *could* accomplish things by certain dates that made sense to me to see how much, if at all, I struggle with the time frame and so forth.
So, I came away from the date with the following goals, divided into three creative areas (I should have put "finish cardigan" in there :P ).
Fiction:
Write three chapters of TKB by Dec 31
Writing and Illustration:
- Find photos (online) of 5 people to use as inspiration and paint them as characters for children's book in prep for the character design workshop on Dec 12.
- make a blank insta-book ('zine) for our trip this month in which I can do travel-inspired sketches. My goal is to make one, but I think I would like to do two: One with plain white paper and another with different colored backgrounds/underpaintings (probably gouache) that I can sketch or paint on if so inspired by color, mood, etc on location. (This is going to happen around 19-27 Nov)
Fine Art:
I would like to work on art in general as well as illustration, and to that end, I aim to make three landscape paintings (small, and on paper if I so desire) before Jan 31. I am not doing it with the end goal of having something to hang on our walls, but I would like if I made something I was happy to display.
When I got home, I did some character research and then started on a landscape exercise (acrylic on toned paper with a red underpainting). I hope to finish it up tomorrow, but here is what I got done tonight.
Acrylic is not easy to photograph, and of course, I have the added difficulty of taking a pic at night AND having a crappy phone camera. You can squint and imagine it is focused. :P This is from a pic taken at the park where L and kids went to play today. They stayed at the playground today, but we usually take the path above to go down to a stream where the kids like to build forts and catch crabs and newts and toads, oh my.
So, I came away from the date with the following goals, divided into three creative areas (I should have put "finish cardigan" in there :P ).
Fiction:
Write three chapters of TKB by Dec 31
Writing and Illustration:
- Find photos (online) of 5 people to use as inspiration and paint them as characters for children's book in prep for the character design workshop on Dec 12.
- make a blank insta-book ('zine) for our trip this month in which I can do travel-inspired sketches. My goal is to make one, but I think I would like to do two: One with plain white paper and another with different colored backgrounds/underpaintings (probably gouache) that I can sketch or paint on if so inspired by color, mood, etc on location. (This is going to happen around 19-27 Nov)
Fine Art:
I would like to work on art in general as well as illustration, and to that end, I aim to make three landscape paintings (small, and on paper if I so desire) before Jan 31. I am not doing it with the end goal of having something to hang on our walls, but I would like if I made something I was happy to display.
When I got home, I did some character research and then started on a landscape exercise (acrylic on toned paper with a red underpainting). I hope to finish it up tomorrow, but here is what I got done tonight.
Acrylic is not easy to photograph, and of course, I have the added difficulty of taking a pic at night AND having a crappy phone camera. You can squint and imagine it is focused. :P This is from a pic taken at the park where L and kids went to play today. They stayed at the playground today, but we usually take the path above to go down to a stream where the kids like to build forts and catch crabs and newts and toads, oh my.