I'm happy and surprised to say that this is my 100th post. I'm celebrating with:
A Look Back
- Goals I Set in January that I've Met by July
- Get in the practice of drawing everyday - measured by filling a moleskine (which is close to filled)
- Read through Colored Pencil for Serious Beginners (Bet Borgeson)
- Read through Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step (Ann Kullberg)
- Copy several Sargent portraits
- Copy several Ingres portraits - Themes I've Kept To
- Portraits: spent all of January doing only portraits
- Landscapes: worked on this in February
- Nature in color: did this in June
- Everyday objects - Artists I've Studied
- January: John Singer Sargent
- February: Vincent van Gogh
- March: John William Waterhouse
- April: Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
- May: James McNeill Whistler
- June: Georgia O'Keeffe - Things I Didn't Plan to Do, but have done
- Start and continue a blog
- Successfully complete a paid commission
- Begin looking at the art market - Goals That are "In Progress"
- Working on Perspective
- Get started in acrylics
- Get started in colored pencils
- Drawing more from life
- Drawing from memory, eventually as a daily goal
- Goals I Set in January, Still to be Met
- Finish a work large enough to go over my couch
- Finish 12 works that would fit nicely into a calendar
- Continue on the "In Progress" goals listed above
- Work on some architecture in pen and ink - Artists To Study
- July: Maxfield Parrish (with Maggie Stiefvater)
- Aug-Dec: Winslow Homer, Degas, Turner, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Da Vinci (I will adapt this to enable myself to join in on any groups that are studying a master)
- Also in July: I plan to buoy myself against discouragement with "Parrish blues" by also working through (again) Hale's Drawing Lessons From the Masters - any tidbits I plan to pass along on this blog. - New Goals To Add
- Continue with the blog
- Tweaking the blog as time permits
- Look at building a portrait commission business
- Learn more color theory and application
Finally, a special thanks to all those who have commented and emailed their encouragement and advice! I have learned a tremendous amount in just a short time, largely because of the kindness of others. I never expected this to be such a rewarding experience!
Onward and upward...
3 comments:
Hey! I just dropped by and want you to know that I think you're good! :)
Rose - you've not only done tremendously well, you're also setting the pace at times. Keep up the good work.
Wow, Katherine, thanks. You've made my week!
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