Practice! (and get up at 7 am every day)

I signed up for Creative Sprint shortly after resigning my stressful corporate job and then promptly forgot about it until the emails started showing up September 30th. I thought it would help sharpen my artistic skills, which get rusty when not in use, and give me something fun to do while I figured out my next move. In the previous month I had felt rather unfocused and drifting. This gave me something to concentrate on and in trying to stick to the schedule of completing things daily, I realized that I needed more of a schedule in my day to feel productive (as much as I enjoyed waking up any old time I wanted!). During the challenge, I’ve also been doing volunteer work and took a trip to Phoenix, both of which made completing things on a daily basis more difficult. The other thing that made it difficult on some days was self-imposed. I decided at the beginning that everything I did would be insect themed (because I’m an entomology nerd) and so some of the assignments really made me scratch my head as to how I could include insects. I managed to do so, and I did it without purchasing anything new (another self-imposed limitation). Having completed the challenge, I now realize that I should be practicing more to keep myself from creative complacency; making a drawing every day, or as often as I can, because it takes a lot of energy to bring myself out of “rustiness” and this can be discouraging. Structure and practice would have remained something I should be doing but didn’t do. The 30-day challenge willed me to pick up the pencil. All of my projects can be seen on my blog: https://onionioniart.blogspot.com/p/sprint.html

I don’t think I can pick a favorite assignment, but the ones I enjoyed most set limitations (i.e. make something with/based on/inspired by XYZ, rather than the ones that were more freestyle) since these felt more challenging.

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At the Farmer’s Market…

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Lady Kibble

Not all the projects are winners, but that’s ok,  it was fun!

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