I haven't yet bought my 2014 calendar. The free ones are not very pretty or else the spaces are small and they transfer marks to the brand new month underneath. :( Last year's pretty bought calendar barely made the monthly switches as I tend to look at the Rooster's plain and serviceable free calendar that is in the kitchen. Planners for me have been the notebook type with a two page spread of the month that gets buried in the paper surrounding the 'puter. :O If I am planning my week I generally just scribble sections onto any available scrap of loose leaf found in the previously mentioned pile. This year has a 'strict budget' on the top of the things to accomplish this year so I thought I just might draw my own grid. I have some specific things happening in specific months and I need to know when I can sit around scrolling through blogs and when I need to be making progress on this year's commitments! ;)
Then I saw Jan's postings on the her new journal,
here and
here. I am still wanting to make art journaling more of a daily practice. I did enjoy making the 2 big binders from two years ago but I got behind at the very end and they just became way too big. I also find myself organizing my week in a more purposeful way. so...
I checked out the Document Your Life Project on the
Art to the 5th blog. I seriously need to curtail art supply buying, much as I'd luv the Moleskine planner. hmm??? A search through all my mixed media sketch books yielded only one that qualified and of the 60 pages I still had 54 that were not tampered with other than some colourations around the edges. Must be meant to be! :)
So I am drawing grids and mapping out the week's focus AND making art! At least I will be trying to!
I'm also trying to be a 'puter techie! The tutorial videos are very slow so I thought to tweak my settings. HA! I have given up as I went from slow to no go! This morning I hit the restore button. vbsigh! I did try! ;)
4 comments:
great idea! you will have a wonderful creative calendar
Thanks for the link up! Next year, I'm back to the same Canson book you are using, that's what I've used the last two years. The paper stands up to all sorts of torture and the only reason it gets anything on the other side is because.....I'm a messy painter! I may have said this before but I'm not doing all of those tip-ins, too much space to fill.
I should have bought one of those Canson books like you have. Mine is a bit larger, but doesn't take the paint well like yours and Jan's do. Wish I had bought the kind that opens flat like that. Mine wasn't cheap by any means, but it has turned out to not be very functional. Of course, I'm only doing Kate's monthly calendar, so an inch a day is more than enough for me.
Sorry to read about your hands. I had that happen a couple of years ago. Now I try to keep them as far away from water as possible, and slather them with hand cream when I can't.
Making art and making do with what you have is a blessing in disguise. You will amaze yourself my dear. Blissful Daily Art...
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