Weekly Challenge ~ Inspiration Avenue

Do What You Love

The challenge this week at Inspiration Avenue

is to think about what you have accomplished in 2010

and what you hope to do in 2011 ~ to imagine

what you may be looking back on

as you write a blog post one year from now

on December 31, 2011.

Oh, too hard, I thought.

I'll use the excuse of being far too busy

with the holidays, settling in from a 10-day trip,

yada yada yada. Just not enough time!

But of course it comes down to the wire

and I realize I can't miss the opportunity

to get myself some goals for the new year.

If not now, then when will I do it? 

Never, naturally!

So thank you Linda of Becklee Cottage Designs!

It's the perfect challenge at just the right time!

I'm going to try to make this short.

Even though I can't see you, I don't want to

imagine anyone's eyes rolling back in one's head

and forehead hitting the desk as you pass out  

from excruciating boredom. Ha.

In 2010, I am so happy that I:

Began to take some art classes, namely Suzi Blu's
and the lovely and generous Tam's of Willowing.
Suzi is responsible for helping me discover that
my long-ago love of creating art is still alive.
That it's OK to do what you love. 

Continued sharing with all my wonderful
friends at Inspiration Avenue.
Actually, before I discovered that I love taking
online art classes, you all were the "inspiration"
that prompted me to return to making art in the first place!

From Tam's Art, Heart and Healing class

Even though this isn't a complete look at 2010,

I'm going to move on to 2011:

I have been selling digital images in my Etsy shop

for nearly 2 years, and although it's not

making me rich, it's gratifying

to know that people enjoy them and

are using them to create their own artwork.

But this year, I am hoping to begin

selling my own art 

What I have to figure out

is exactly how to do that. Will it be online,

or somehow in "person", a brick and mortar shop,

craft shows, hmmm...I'd love to hear opinions

on the way my readers sell their art! 

It seems it's very hard to sell art on Etsy...

I will be taking more classes in 2011.

I'm going to try to enter more

challenges

No excuses, there are so many intriguing

ones out there, and they are great

for kick-starting one's creativity! 

I have a difficult time working in a sketchbook,

so I'm going to try harder with that.

All that blank paper!! 

I always want to go right to paint and canvas,

never mind sketching. But a 

sketchbook

can be a work of art in itself .

 There is a great new challenge,

The Sketchbook Challenge,

that I may give a go. There is a theme

every month, go check it out!

Did I say this would be short? 

My apologies, if you are still here.

All of these goals have to do with my art.

I won't list my other resolutions here, 

although I do have a few more.

Except for a last one, very important!

It has to do with

starting and finishing

Me, dithering

I dither around, thinking too much

and I only start half of what I want to do.

Then I only finish half of what I started.

I'm no math wizard, but I think that comes out to 

completing just a quarter of my ideas! Bleh.

So, perhaps this will be the hardest

challenge of all, but I will work on it!

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Happy New Year everyone!