Monday, January 4, 2016

New Year Art Plans


An art journal is underway already! these pieces are not complete but just
barely started. I'll show the work throughout 2016. I really hope to learn
new things about my art, about mixed media, about the treatment of
traditional designs as I work with this kind of book making.
I’m busy making a list! I’ll check it endlessly during the coming year (if I can find it). Perhaps these are ART RESOLUTIONS. 

Fill my frames. I have lots of completed and almost-completed artwork and many, many frames. Perhaps they can become gifts? I can hang some.

Each time I have an Artist trading Cards theme, complete two sheets of designs. That means 18 cards to trade. That’s a bunch of cards since I go to two monthly trades.

Keep working of flora designs toward a goal of making floral relief prints as well as continuing my mixed-media pieces.

Make monoprints galore in order to develop my own style of gel plate printing.

Draw, draw, draw.

As you can see, the page on the left is only an idea. No glue has
made its way there. On the right is a collage of a relief print on top of a
monoprint. Who knows were these ideas will lead me. I'm looking forward
to the journey in this art journal. The difference between these new books
is that I will write nothing in them, no words, simply artwork without
explanation. Guess you'll suffer some of the explanations if you follow
this blog!

Keep up art journals related to Native American petroglyphs, journals that combine art with writing.

Continue my regular daily journal entries—3 pages each day—general topics.

Write weekly stories for the storytelling group.

Write monthly chapters for longer works, chapters to read at the writers group I attend.

Make a flora drawing trip to Mid-MO. Also to see family there.

Do local plein air drawing outings with artist friends Sue and Jan.

Make watercolor ATCs.

That’s way too many, but one of the things I do effectively is make lists!

Happy New Year to you.

This page is glued but only just begun!
Art journal by Phillip Hoyle 2016

Denver, 2016

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