Day Two

In being honest about my projects yesterday, I came across a few more. One is an ongoing illustration book I started writing to show my husband exactly what I love about him. I move it from my desk to his when I have made an entry in it. I draw with my favorite watercolor pencils. Probably not often enough considering what a wonder guy he is.


The other is the children's book I wrote about 10 years ago. After I finished the story,I decided to do the illustrating myself (see below). I got about 75% of the drawings finished and then on the shelf it went with it's group of unfinished friends.


Our friend Alexis from LA (we have two) was even kind enough to send me information on how to publish a children's book. Both of them are super creative and an inspiration to me. Add the blog, which my friend Bob lovingly pointed out was a project and I think that makes six major projects. One thing I can say about this is I am never bored.



This morning I painted for about three hours. It felt great. I also realized that my current painting looks like my old knitting. (I will upload a picture of both as my painting gets closer to being finished). I was feeling great and afterwards I was getting adult things done ,then we went to met the new Oncologist. I am not too happy about him and all my creative energy went away. I didn't even want to write and it's only day two. I feel better already.


In 1998 I did Julia Cameron's "The Artist Way". I would recommend this to anyone whether you think you are creative or not. It was a life changing experience even though I took it too far and went into the Art business. Lesson learned. I wasn't a fan of abstract painting until I came to realize that painting abstracts is much harder than representational. When Gary went through his first round of radiation, I was devastated and decided to take an abstraction class to do something for myself. It was frustrating and challenging and when the class was over I quit painting but I am up on the horse again.



I plan to work on a few things each day. I am looking forward to some knitting tonight and then seeing what I am passionate about tomorrow. One thing I am not passionate about is discovering more projects but I doubt there are too many hiding in there now.