I plan - like anyone does - and I hope that my plans work out. But if I don't plan, I feel as though I have nowhere to go with my art. And seeing the Home Festival was last weekend - and was a great success - I can work on the plans I have on for the rest of this year now.
For the last few months, I've been purchasing cheap - but nice - photo frames to make a family portraiture in my stair well. It'll be of immediate family and pets; and so it'll take up the whole wall and consist of around 40 photographs. Once I get the photos off the hard drive of my old computer from this year, I'll have something solid to work with and know exactly how many I'll need. But right now, I'm looking for a retro-80's photo collage frame - one that holds a large number of smaller photos. I hope Mum hasn't thrown hers out (I remember we had one once) and I'd be able to use it.
I also have some paintings I need to catch up on. There's my self-portrait I need to finish the background of. It's looking good and ought to be completed this weekend hopefully.
After that, I'm hoping to begin working on a new set of tiny paintings. They are going to be tiny paintings of big things. For example: a tiny painting of the front grill of a Mac Truck... or a sky scraper of Brisbane reaching to the sky, or the Great Barrier Reef. All on tiny, small canvas'. So, I'll be needing to cut down some of my older brushes and getting one or two new detailing ones. I do have photos of buildings of Brisbane... now to get them printed up at K-Mart - that won't cost much. I'll get them done at the same time at the family photos. I'm no in any hurry. I'm hoping to get about 10 of these done by the end of next year and do them under a magnifying glass (I'll borrow one off my brother; as he has a few my Grandpa used to own in his older years).
Otherwise, I'm finishing up the larger blue blanket for friends who are having a baby and I'm hoping they'll like it. So far, I've knitted up 3 little hats, 1 new-born hat, a green scarf, a red blanket and now this blue blanket... not bad for 5 months' work.
So, what are you working on that has kept you busying this year - and will keep you busy for a while (like me?). Until my next post, keep creating!
For the last few months, I've been purchasing cheap - but nice - photo frames to make a family portraiture in my stair well. It'll be of immediate family and pets; and so it'll take up the whole wall and consist of around 40 photographs. Once I get the photos off the hard drive of my old computer from this year, I'll have something solid to work with and know exactly how many I'll need. But right now, I'm looking for a retro-80's photo collage frame - one that holds a large number of smaller photos. I hope Mum hasn't thrown hers out (I remember we had one once) and I'd be able to use it.
I also have some paintings I need to catch up on. There's my self-portrait I need to finish the background of. It's looking good and ought to be completed this weekend hopefully.
After that, I'm hoping to begin working on a new set of tiny paintings. They are going to be tiny paintings of big things. For example: a tiny painting of the front grill of a Mac Truck... or a sky scraper of Brisbane reaching to the sky, or the Great Barrier Reef. All on tiny, small canvas'. So, I'll be needing to cut down some of my older brushes and getting one or two new detailing ones. I do have photos of buildings of Brisbane... now to get them printed up at K-Mart - that won't cost much. I'll get them done at the same time at the family photos. I'm no in any hurry. I'm hoping to get about 10 of these done by the end of next year and do them under a magnifying glass (I'll borrow one off my brother; as he has a few my Grandpa used to own in his older years).
Otherwise, I'm finishing up the larger blue blanket for friends who are having a baby and I'm hoping they'll like it. So far, I've knitted up 3 little hats, 1 new-born hat, a green scarf, a red blanket and now this blue blanket... not bad for 5 months' work.
So, what are you working on that has kept you busying this year - and will keep you busy for a while (like me?). Until my next post, keep creating!
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