Diary Project Update

After forty five consecutive days working on this project I have decided to shift from daily drawings/paintings to "whenever I feel like it". This is because I want to have more time to work on other projects but I don't want to halt this project completely. Whenever I want to draw something from my daily life it will become part of my diary project and will be numbered and dated accordingly. I am glad that I managed to keep up the daily art for as long as I did, but I often felt constrained by the subject matter. I think that now I know I have the willpower for this sort of project it will have a positive effect on the quantity of work I make in the future.

the most recent addition to my diary project (all entries available on my instagram)

Am I enough of an Artist?

I don't know if all creative people feel like this, but I often wonder if I'm enough of an artist. I feel like I don't love art as much as I should. I would generally rather visit a garden than an art gallery, I tend to describe things in words rather than images and I rarely reach for my paints for comfort when I'm feeling sad. Of course I enjoy art while I'm doing it, but sometimes it feels like a chore. I expect it's because I'm studying it at university so I end up associating it with grades and deadlines (which is not the point of art at all) and worrying whether an artwork is "good" instead of whether I like it.

I suppose I need to give myself space to do the art I want to do, the problem is I'm not entirely sure what kind of art that is. I know I like landscapes and fantasy but I need to figure out how I want to paint them. Most of all I need to work out how to stop thinking like a student and start thinking like an artist.

This image is part of my Diary Project, updated weekly on my Instagram (link on my contact page)

Diary Project

I've decided to start a new project to help me build a daily art habit. Every day I will do at least one drawing or painting from life. The only real rule is that I can't rearrange anything before starting because I want the images to be as authentic as possible. I have completed seven drawings and two paintings so far, all from my bedroom, but I plan to do more in other parts of my house as well as some portraits of my family. I don't have an end date for this project, I might drop it at the end of the summer or it might me something I continue for the rest of my life.

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