Note: I was away from the computer last week and didn’t auto set my posts. Here’s the “Put a Bird On It” doodle I mentioned last Monday. I’ll be back later this week with more posts that got delayed, and also coming up another paper review. Stop by again soon.
My mind is always going back to themes I’ve hit before. I mentioned in my last post about my habit of putting birds on things.
On this day I was thinking about a friend who draws doves and started doodling a pigeon (because I draw pigeons more often), and then of course, a person below it.
Will I do a full, large, finished painting from this thumbnail doodle? Nope, but it does have me thinking again about the interaction of subjects in portraits—not just portraits where people have birds on their heads
And it has me thinking about watercolor—what do I want to be doing with watercolor? How do I want to do my blending? Which brushes do I want to use? (I’m really in love with the liner brushes.)
These are all things one needs to sit down and think about now and then, and if it takes a dove on a man’s head to make me do it, well I’m alert enough to know it’s time to think about these things.
I hope you are listening to your journal.
Activity
Write down the questions you find your journal keeps raising.
Mark pages with Post-It Notes™ so you can return to repeating themes.
Set some time aside to think about the questions you find.
Set some time aside to ask yourself which questions you aren’t asking yourself in your journal or in your art? And why? It’s time to dig in. You might spend an evening writing in your journal or you might find yourself planning a whole new project…
This is an excellent exercise to do at the start of your 6-week evaluation.
