Well, April wasn't too successful as the overwhelming lack of posts might suggest ;o)
But that doesn't mean nothing was accomplished during April. Some books were read and will be discussed, posts to come very, very soon. But it wasn't as successful as March was.
Basically, I think what I've learned is to not burn myself out with any particular theme. The whole point of this online exercise is to get me to try new things and stick to them for at least a month. But if I start doing similar things, i.e. reading projects, a couple of months in a row, then well, I'm dooming myself to failure. And since this is supposed to be a good thing in my life, not another source of stress, I'll be sure to not repeat myself in the future. Not to say that I wouldn't do another reading theme, in fact I have a few ideas up my virtual sleeves, but not one-right-after-the-other-oh-my-god-all-I'm-doing-is-reading-please-make-it-stop-now.
So in the spirit of 'innovation' and all that, this month's theme is [drum, drum, drum, drum, etc]:
A Drawing-a-Day!
Coincidentally enough one of my online friends started to do this very same thing right around the time I first came up with it, so maybe it's in the air. The need, the urge to draw, to reconnect back with that pure creativity so many of us seem to lose once we exit our childhoods. I see my little 2-year-old and how free she is with her drawing - which admittedly for now is a bunch of very colorful lines all over the place - and I want to get back to that. I took some classes (long, long ago) in college, but since then I've barely ever picked up a pencil, crayon, chalk to draw anything that wasn't a plan for something. A plan for a bedroom, a plan for a painted piece of furniture, a plan for an embroidery. But I never draw just to draw. It's a muscle that needs to be exercised more often, so I thought this might be a good opportunity to get a work out.
I'll also be going on holiday as of tomorrow, so hopefully some of the drawings will reflect some of what I'm seeing and experiencing...or maybe they'll just be stick figures 'cause I'll be too tired for anything else :o)
But enough talking and let's get drawing!
But that doesn't mean nothing was accomplished during April. Some books were read and will be discussed, posts to come very, very soon. But it wasn't as successful as March was.
Basically, I think what I've learned is to not burn myself out with any particular theme. The whole point of this online exercise is to get me to try new things and stick to them for at least a month. But if I start doing similar things, i.e. reading projects, a couple of months in a row, then well, I'm dooming myself to failure. And since this is supposed to be a good thing in my life, not another source of stress, I'll be sure to not repeat myself in the future. Not to say that I wouldn't do another reading theme, in fact I have a few ideas up my virtual sleeves, but not one-right-after-the-other-oh-my-god-all-I'm-doing-is-reading-please-make-it-stop-now.
So in the spirit of 'innovation' and all that, this month's theme is [drum, drum, drum, drum, etc]:
A Drawing-a-Day!
Coincidentally enough one of my online friends started to do this very same thing right around the time I first came up with it, so maybe it's in the air. The need, the urge to draw, to reconnect back with that pure creativity so many of us seem to lose once we exit our childhoods. I see my little 2-year-old and how free she is with her drawing - which admittedly for now is a bunch of very colorful lines all over the place - and I want to get back to that. I took some classes (long, long ago) in college, but since then I've barely ever picked up a pencil, crayon, chalk to draw anything that wasn't a plan for something. A plan for a bedroom, a plan for a painted piece of furniture, a plan for an embroidery. But I never draw just to draw. It's a muscle that needs to be exercised more often, so I thought this might be a good opportunity to get a work out.
I'll also be going on holiday as of tomorrow, so hopefully some of the drawings will reflect some of what I'm seeing and experiencing...or maybe they'll just be stick figures 'cause I'll be too tired for anything else :o)
But enough talking and let's get drawing!
