Studio Sunday: First Artistic Weekend of 2019

It’s a New Year, and that really doesn’t matter, but I like beginnings and ends. Thus, below is my list of artistic goals for 2019, copied from a social media post.

- 52 mini paintings, one a week basically, no bigger than 12in x 12in
- Clean out studio space/sell/give away paintings
- Consider/research/actually try to get prints of my paintings done so they are more accessible to ship/sale.
- Revisit/revise a short story I wrote and submit it somewhere.
- Complete the novel I started/worked on in my workshop.

Six days in, how is it going so far?

- 1st mini painting complete (more on that Tuesday, hopefully)
- Cleaned studio up a bit and shared a painting on my Facebook to see if anyone is interested.

Not a bad start. Before New Years I focused on my novel and reread my short story. This weekend, I wanted to get back into painting. Saturday not enough time (lots of napping, really exhausted), but Sunday, I was able to listen to good music (Swallow the Sun, Ison, Below the Sun, Varathon) and get lost and focus. Here’s a sneak peek of a work in progress with not great lighting (excluding the mini painting):

Currently Listening: Swallow the Sun (particularly latest songs Upon the Water and Lumina Aurea)
Currently Reading: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Currently Watching: Vikings (catching up on weekends)