I’m doing it again but a bit different than in the past. Picasso said Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. So I’m going to be working but not posting.
My project is to spend at least an hour every day making art but this year I won’t be sharing on social media. Sharing on social media shifts my intention from fun to making good or at least halfway decent works. The pressure builds, the joy fades and the work shows it. This time it’s just for the fun of doing the work. I will still be posting my quick morning sketches but that isn't part of the project, that's just what I do every morning to start my day.
My intention is to start the morning asking myself what I want to make today. It could be working on something new – or maybe finish one of the many starts I have laying around. I could be drawing or making a paper clay bowl. It doesn’t matter what and it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad, only that I do it just the fun of doing. I'm on day 5 and have already had fun ripping up canvas strips from a painting that I finally decided was not working and wasn't going to because I didn't like any of it. I do like the strips I got from the ripping -- now thinking about what I can do with them.
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