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elainegrey) wrote2011-01-01 07:27 am
elainegrey) wrote2011-01-01 07:27 am
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Reflections of creative things to do
Happy New Year!
Now to train my fingers to know the shortcut for filing 2011 mail. (I've fished messages out from the 2010 bucket twice now.)
I don't do resolutions, but there are some things that are easier to start on New Years. In cleaning up over the past few weeks i dumped all the ephemera from the year. I hadn't really collaged any ... since last January, it turned out. More evidence that last year was very hard for me, where i was not doing some things that connect me to my visual creative side.
I'm not sure what the ephemera collaging "means." I'm realizing i don't want to make comprehensive scrapbook records: that's not the point. I do enjoy having the memory triggers of the ephemera, but i think the act of creating a layout is also what i enjoy. When i flip through older books and find pages i felt came together just so, there's a small rush of pride and pleasure.
Looking at some other folk's annual photo projects (locked), enjoying the regular photo-blogging ofthreeringedmoon, <user name="wuweibaby" site="livejournal.com>, and <user name="zyzyly" site="livejournal.com> i feel like i need to do more with the photography i have done. But the back collection of images is so deep! So i wonder if a goal that would feel meaningful to me is to edit some photo from the past to make it shine, post it, and share it. One a week seems daunting, but one a month seems unlikely to get done.
Part of the reason i like making my goals for the year in March is that i can stew over them for a while and experiment. Does this make work out of something that should be pleasure?
I don't think i picked up a paint brush once last year... no, i did the guache doodle on puzzle pieces for nephews. No acrylic painting, then. The first step there is to get the mat under the easel realigned so it covers where i'm likely to spill.
Christine and i have a blank book we'd been using as collaborative doodle/collage book, and i don't think i've contributed to that in the past year, either. (We'd been calling it an exquisite corpse project, but we see all of each other's contribution.)
Reading over my wishing from a last week, i see most of them are about the object crafting rather than image crafting. My perfectionism is coming through there, a desire to make things just right, "professionally," without spending the time to be a master of the techniques. I have taken on quite a few little hobbies: the beads and jewelry, the crochet, the dyeing. I think i'm just going to have to encourage myself to practice and encourage myself to have patience.
Now to train my fingers to know the shortcut for filing 2011 mail. (I've fished messages out from the 2010 bucket twice now.)
I don't do resolutions, but there are some things that are easier to start on New Years. In cleaning up over the past few weeks i dumped all the ephemera from the year. I hadn't really collaged any ... since last January, it turned out. More evidence that last year was very hard for me, where i was not doing some things that connect me to my visual creative side.
I'm not sure what the ephemera collaging "means." I'm realizing i don't want to make comprehensive scrapbook records: that's not the point. I do enjoy having the memory triggers of the ephemera, but i think the act of creating a layout is also what i enjoy. When i flip through older books and find pages i felt came together just so, there's a small rush of pride and pleasure.
Looking at some other folk's annual photo projects (locked), enjoying the regular photo-blogging of
threeringedmoon, <user name="wuweibaby" site="livejournal.com>, and <user name="zyzyly" site="livejournal.com> i feel like i need to do more with the photography i have done. But the back collection of images is so deep! So i wonder if a goal that would feel meaningful to me is to edit some photo from the past to make it shine, post it, and share it. One a week seems daunting, but one a month seems unlikely to get done.
Part of the reason i like making my goals for the year in March is that i can stew over them for a while and experiment. Does this make work out of something that should be pleasure?
I don't think i picked up a paint brush once last year... no, i did the guache doodle on puzzle pieces for nephews. No acrylic painting, then. The first step there is to get the mat under the easel realigned so it covers where i'm likely to spill.
Christine and i have a blank book we'd been using as collaborative doodle/collage book, and i don't think i've contributed to that in the past year, either. (We'd been calling it an exquisite corpse project, but we see all of each other's contribution.)
Reading over my wishing from a last week, i see most of them are about the object crafting rather than image crafting. My perfectionism is coming through there, a desire to make things just right, "professionally," without spending the time to be a master of the techniques. I have taken on quite a few little hobbies: the beads and jewelry, the crochet, the dyeing. I think i'm just going to have to encourage myself to practice and encourage myself to have patience.