New Goals in Art

So I started this adventure about two weeks ago, or 15 days(ish). I just realized that when I started, I was 100 days away from my 27th birthday, October 21st. My big goal is to work towards completing 10,000 hours of painting, but assuming that I work 40 hours per week every week, it will take 5 years to complete that goal. So, in order to make my bigger goal more manageable, I'm going to have small(er) challenges along the way. My current goal is to complete 100 paintings by the time I turn 27.

I've currently done about 20 paintings in the last 15 days or so, and I am already seeing so much improvement in my work. I'm figuring out how to work with the

paint, how to mix the colors, how to work with color relationships. Yesterday was totally frustrating, I wound scraping down everything I tried to do. How infuriating is that? But today I came back with a positive attitude and I've done 5 small paintings, and I feel like I am really getting the hang of it. The best part of all of this is that mess ups and mistakes are okay, they are part of the learning process.

In any case, I started out the day with my block study, and I moved on into some fruit and vegetables in order to have something else to focus on and paint. I really enjoyed the other objects.

By the way, I really need to work on my photography. I didn't realize what awful, horrific glare I was picking up with this. Sheesh.

Week Roundup

I woke up today and have not managed to get myself out of a funk. The cloudy, gray days are starting to stack up. This is supposed to be the dry season - can I please have some sun? Thanks. Okay, enough griping. I'm going to talk about only good things right now. Here is what I accomplished this week:

1) Exercised 4 out of 5 days - Let me tell you how sore I am. P90X is not for the faint of heart. My arms are just about dead. I think that working out so intensely has a lot to do with my fatigue. But I am getting a great sense of accomplishment from doing it, so now is not the time to give up.

2) 30 Hours of art from Monday - Friday. My goal was closer to 32 hours, but I've been dealing with a lot of rain, which makes it kind of difficult to paint due to lighting conditions. Sigh.

3) Getting a grasp on saturated color - just looking at my progress from the first block study I did until the one I did this afternoon makes me SO happy. I need a progress report to keep on trucking!

4) Worked on my first landscape study - (see yesterday's post) There are still some things that I want to change about this, but overall, I think it is coming along and not an awful first attempt.

5) Eating right - Less partying! I'm going to pat myself on the back for that one. I've been a very good girl and been eating the right way. I feel better - now the weight just needs to follow suit!