I thought now would be a good time to take a peak back at my artistic goals for 2008 and see how I’ve progressed thus far:
1.) Daily drawing: while I haven’t posted many results here (which I may decide to do from this point as part of “Wordless Wednesdays”) I’m really pleased to look back at my sketchbook to date and see all the drawing I’ve done over the past three months. I think one of the positive side-effects of the daily drawing has been exposure to a wider variety of subjects (other than my usual “fur/feathers/fins”) and I think you’ll start seeing this influence my work very soon.
2.) Blogging: I’ve found keeping the Monday – Friday posting schedule has been a bit of a challenge on some weeks. I’ll continue to work on a pattern of themes for the days, e.g. Mondays and Thursdays – easel check, Tuesdays – tutorials, Wednesdays – wordless (sketches?) and Fridays – haiku.
3.) Website: I did overhaul my main website in January and have continued to make alterations, but I think I could improve this by adding new work to the site as soon as I’ve finished it. I’m also seriously thinking about adding some form of e-commerce to my site: first step, research! (My favourite step of any project.)
4.) Networking: The RFA Spring Show was the first run on my new mailing list and I think it went pretty well. I do have some improvements to make in two areas: be more aggressive about what names I add to the list (one artist at the show introduced me to her pharmacist. I don’t have a regular pharmacist, but if I did it never would have occured to me to put her name on my mailing list!) and send e-mail reminders to as many people as possible about three – five days before the show (I had a few people show up on Sunday saying they’d almost forgotten).
5.) Entrepreneurial: does using my new mailing list count? ’cause otherwise I think I forgot about this one entirely – eek. I’m gonna have to get back to you on this one…
6.) Paperwork: I’m very pleased to say, except for the two sales over the weekend, I’m completely up-to-date with my business books. I’m hoping this earns me enough karma to excuse my sales/marketing research goal… probably not.
7.) Creative writing: I’ve done 10 Haiku Fridays and am looking forward to more. I think the state of mind one enters into to write haiku is the same one enters to make visual art and I’ve found the process a satisfyingly creative one. Maybe there’s a connection between making art and writing haiku?
Did you make any artistic/creative goals for 2008? If you did, how about you post a comment and let me know how it’s going so far?
