This week, I worked four more sets of pages in my black and white gluebook. I started this book in 2004, and there’s enough space in it to do two pages for every letter in the alphabet, and probably the numbers from 0 to 9 as well. I’m not sure I have 26+ black and white layouts in me, even spread across many years. I’m up to 10 so far. We’ll see…
This is the last weekend of 2010. A year ago, I decided I would start keeping this weekly blog, to help me with my goal of making more time for personal art. There are 50 posts filed under My Weekly Thing, so in terms of posting something every week, I did pretty well. I’m not sure how much time I really made for personal art, though, because most of what I’ve been showing here each week is stuff I’m doing for swaps and round robins. I haven’t made a single shrine this year, even though I have dozens of boxes to choose from in my workroom. I haven’t done any encaustic work other than the pieces I did in the class I took last summer. I still can’t seem to make time to make things that have no purpose other than to grow me as an artist.
So, success? Failure? I’m not sure. I do know that I’m making something every week, and that’s not a bad thing. Also, since I just committed to making more time for personal art in this year’s creative resolutions post, I’m going to do another year of this blog. Beyond that, all I can do is try to turn one of those boxes into a shrine next year. Again, we’ll see…