Momentum is a hard thing to keep going.When it finally starts rolling, you start working better than you have before, you push yourself further than you thought you could...but when you finally hit that deadline and finish the work, you suddenly get this baffling sensation that there is nothing more to do. You feel lost. You want to do something but at the same time you want to enjoy the relief of that deadline being over. It's the twilight zone for artists, and just people in general.
But the truth is, the twilight zone is constructed by ideas that work cannot be enjoyable. As an artist, your work can stress you out, but if you really enjoy it, then it stops feeling so much like...well, work. It starts to feel like a calling, a compulsion to create, even when those deadlines have passed. So I have decided that for the duration of my summer break (which is over 100 days), I will continue doing constructive work. Last week, after my last post I started working on a list of 100 things to do over Summer (read one thing per day typically).
So here is my list, I'm struggling to fill up the last few places, so if you have any ideas please comment below.
100 Days of Summer
- Write one blog post every week
- Spend an entire day making origami cranes
- Do daily writing everyday
- Finish my monopoly painting
- Finish my Venus Painting
- Organise Cupboards
- Start AND finish an artwork in one day
- Take photos of all my art and put it on my pages
- Give away old clothes to charity (Empty Hanger in Sandton?)
- Declutter
- Make at least one Santa Shoebox for Christmas
- Write letters to People who I should have written to long ago
- Make the First Year Survival Guide
- Update Facebook and DeviantArt accounts once a week
- Find a Penpal
- Cut all of my old high school notes into squares (See #2)
- Make another book by hand
- Go stationery shopping
- Wear a different outfit every single day (No cheating and wearing the exact same thing twice)
- Go book shopping
- Design my own logo
- Design my own Calendar
- Get 100 likes on my Facebook Artist page
- Archive all the work I have done this year
- Take part in Illustration Friday every week
- Organise Art Supplies (COMPLETED)
- Use old scraps of paper and make cards
- Write a short story
- Write a Poem
- Enter the World Citizen's Art Competition
- Make business cards
- Collaborate with Josh
- Collaborate with Natasha
- Go driving a few times a week
- Sign up for the Rosebank Market
- Do a large-scale Typography Drawing
- Get more lino
- Learn to cook and bake
- Make a drawing for someone else
- Find a new genre of music to listen to
- Customise my car and put things inside that are useful
- Enter an art competition
- Make an artwork using non-traditional mediums
- Do Hibiscus Painting for mom
- Do one Oil Painting
- Make Colour Swatch notebooks
- Learn how to make my own paper
- Get back in shape, do at least ten minutes of exercise a day
- Learn to master a different medium
- Figure out how to sculpt using texture paste
- Make more colour mixing squares
- Get a good anatomy textbook
- Do an artwork from life
- Attempt a blind painting
- Go an entire day without wearing glasses and then write about it
- Try being a vegetarian for 3 days
- Try and actually drink 8 glasses of water in one day
- Make one public work of art
- Learn how to write with my left hand
- Learn how to draw with my left hand
- Actually make a drawing using only my left hand
- Figure out my own unique makeup look (COMPLETED)
- Make a comic strip
- Experiment with Henna Tattoos
- Have an awesome manicure every week
- File all the loose paper lying around my room
- Make a digital portfolio
- Organise a group for first year orientation
- Read at least 10 books
- Go art supply shopping
- Make a time lapse video of making an artwork
- Start writing tutorials on how to make stuff
- Do recipe organisation for mom
- Start figuring out how to feng-shui the flat
- Start building something out of cranes
- Finish Post-it Project
- Throw one party at home
- Create a real website
- Reorganise books
- Figure out new ways to wear my long hair up
- Finish this list
- Figure out what my alter ego artist would be like
- Do a good deed for someone else
...And that is as far as I've gotten. I'm struggling with these last few ones, so I'm open to suggestions.
Until we meet again
Talia
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