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1. Bought a couple of easels for my painting projects. I can do acrylic and watercolor. Not going to attempt oils without a class. I've taken classes on watercolor with my Dad as a teen. My brother and I did watercolor classes with a professional watercolor teacher, along with my Dad when we were teenagers. Also, my father taught me. So that I've been trained in. I kind of taught myself acrylic - intuitively. But I probably should at some point take a few training videos on it.
Oil? That's dicey and requires training in the techniques, since it's not a water based paint. Also it's messy. Watercolor is the least messy.
I'm an intuitive artist who leans towards abstract. Also it comes to my naturally.
The difficulty is space - I'm in a one bedroom apartment in NYC. But I have a metal desk, and I can put an easel on it. Also I can put an easel next to the window. Both are also portable easel's which I can use if I want to do classes via meetup groups again.
I'd also like to look into restoration courses or mural painting courses.
Art has always relaxed me. I often used it as a stress reducer in school. I can lose myself in my art. Just as I often lose myself in my writing. But this would get me off the computer which is a good thing.
2. One of my goals this year - is to reduce my time on social media. Or limit it. I've noticed that Twitter in particular is rather toxic. FB and Instagram are inundated with marketing. Dreamwidth isn't bad, it's more like reading a bunch of letters or interconnecting journals - no ads. I do like more interaction and discussion though.
3. Finished watching Legacies - while the fourth season wasn't as good as previous seasons, it did do a good job of wrapping up the series, and the character arcs, it also managed to focus on and develop supporting characters. ( Read more... )
4. Did this name test on facebook, with both my first, and my first and middle name. And it's surprisingly accurate.
( surprisingly accurate results )
5. Also found on FB. [My FB is better than my Twitter - it's less toxic, mainly because I've been on it since 2008 and had more time to fiddle with it. Twitter - I've only been on since 2015, and it wasn't until last year I figured it out, and now Musk has taken over, and I'm leery. It's like all social media - it depends on what you are posting and focusing on. If all you post are pet pics, pics of your apartment, and about books or records, it's probably not that big a deal. I would however stay away from politics, soap fandom, and ahem comic book fandom - but then that's probably true on all platforms and pretty much in general.]
In place of resolutions, journal your way into the New Year with five lists.
( Read more... )
Oil? That's dicey and requires training in the techniques, since it's not a water based paint. Also it's messy. Watercolor is the least messy.
I'm an intuitive artist who leans towards abstract. Also it comes to my naturally.
The difficulty is space - I'm in a one bedroom apartment in NYC. But I have a metal desk, and I can put an easel on it. Also I can put an easel next to the window. Both are also portable easel's which I can use if I want to do classes via meetup groups again.
I'd also like to look into restoration courses or mural painting courses.
Art has always relaxed me. I often used it as a stress reducer in school. I can lose myself in my art. Just as I often lose myself in my writing. But this would get me off the computer which is a good thing.
2. One of my goals this year - is to reduce my time on social media. Or limit it. I've noticed that Twitter in particular is rather toxic. FB and Instagram are inundated with marketing. Dreamwidth isn't bad, it's more like reading a bunch of letters or interconnecting journals - no ads. I do like more interaction and discussion though.
3. Finished watching Legacies - while the fourth season wasn't as good as previous seasons, it did do a good job of wrapping up the series, and the character arcs, it also managed to focus on and develop supporting characters. ( Read more... )
4. Did this name test on facebook, with both my first, and my first and middle name. And it's surprisingly accurate.
( surprisingly accurate results )
5. Also found on FB. [My FB is better than my Twitter - it's less toxic, mainly because I've been on it since 2008 and had more time to fiddle with it. Twitter - I've only been on since 2015, and it wasn't until last year I figured it out, and now Musk has taken over, and I'm leery. It's like all social media - it depends on what you are posting and focusing on. If all you post are pet pics, pics of your apartment, and about books or records, it's probably not that big a deal. I would however stay away from politics, soap fandom, and ahem comic book fandom - but then that's probably true on all platforms and pretty much in general.]
In place of resolutions, journal your way into the New Year with five lists.
( Read more... )