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So Now What?

Now that the presents are unwrapped, the cookies are eaten and the mistletoe is down, now what?
Tis the season for looking to the New Year and asking the age old question: So NOW what?

I have been pondering that question a lot, especially in terms of my art and where I am going with it. 
So I pulled out a large journal that holds a history of such thoughts and plans, and wrote this: 


Not that you can read my writing, and I do realize it goes right off the page! I especially like the part that says “in no particular order”. There is something cathartic about simply emptying all the thoughts and plans onto a sheet of paper,  just writing down all those thoughts that have bumping around up in the gray matter, needing a place to land.

Good, it’s done.

Now I can fold that list into a little paper airplane and send it up to God. (At least in my heart)

"Begin, continue, and end every work, purpose, and plan with God. Self-sufficiency and self-confidence have been the ruin of mankind ever since the fall. Man’s sin has been to live independently and without God in the world. True religion consists of full acknowledgement of God in all human affairs.” Dakes Annotated Bible, note from Proverbs 3:5

And by that I mean commit it to God, then organize, prioritize, list, make a calendar, make it happen!

So my 2020 is a shift of focus on mixed media collage and off wearable art. Of course, my Etsy store is still alive and well and fully stocked and ready for customers. But my time and energy is going to be all about doing art on canvas and paper, and preparing to enter the 2020 show season with a whole new body of work. Yes, I know,  just breathe for a moment.


Sea Oats, Laguna Beach, Florida, 11/13/19


 Illustrated journal page from my Florida trip, 11/12/19


Rosemary sprig cuttings from garden, 10/25/19


Illustrated journal page from garden cuttings, 10/28


Mixed media study, 19”x 32” Of the Woods Series


First Frost, photo 10/31/19, illustrated journal cover 12/15/19


      Feel free to come along on my studio adventure while I plan, prepare, organize, paint, embellish, matte, frame and wrap up “In the Woods”. The whole adventure will be documented right here on my blog, starting now and going forward until further notice. 

Please leave comments and let me know your thoughts!



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