I’ll break it down. I promise. This year is going to be a good year, a productive year. I have a lot of work to do to prepare for all of this work to be done. This blog is my overarching project, the main storyline. I’m planning on posting once or twice a week, generally on Sunday or Tuesday, so make sure to check in on those days for any progress or updates.

I’ll start here since we’re here anyway. Working backwards on the list above: 1.) I’ll provide myself with myself on paper, answering the tough questions I don’t really want to ask or answer. 2.) All of my process videos will end up here, Instagram, and probably on my little YouTube channel. I’m going to take video of the vast majority of my work time. 3.) I don’t currently post everything online because most of it is in a sketchbook and very incomplete. Also, difficult to photograph. 4.) online sales will become a real thing. Maybe here? And maybe elsewhere, 5.) Business Insta account to be established and this blog will auto-post there. 6.) Bank a post or ten for weeks when I’m too busy to make a post on the fly. Keep them saved up for rainy weeks. 7.) Domain tbd. 8.) This is the fun part where I stalk some accounts and try to get someone to strike up a conversation with me about their work. The hard part will be coming g up with good questions to ask. The impossible part will be getting people to answer them. 9 to top of list.) Basic schedule I’m setting up for myself. I really hope to be here writing twice a week but once will suffice. Maybe I’ll even be able to generate a small core group of followers who want me to keep doing this… probably not tho. However, if you’re considering it let me know.

Printmaking is what my degree says I do. So I feel confidently obligated to make some prints every once in a while, that’s why it’s only every other month that I’m committing to a print. Any kind of print will do. I’ll probably be doing a bunch of relief prints because they’re able to be done without a press. But if I do figure out some sort of a press situation the. I’ll take advantage of it. Until then, it’s relief all the way. I’d like to get into a few exchanges as well. See what other people are up to and how they do it for real. Hopefully I’ll end up with some cool work too. Hell of a bonus.

Here it comes. I may not be totally consistent with anything but I really enjoy bookmaking. Any kind of book I end up doing, blank for fun/personal use, commissioned, or something with content is going to count for this one. I am also going to include modified books here too. If I fool around with something mass produced to make something interesting and beautiful then I’ll count it as well. If anyone reading this wants a book make for them, I have some materials and am open to commission. You know where to find me.

Drawing is such an open concept. Everything from traditional graphite and charcoal to inks and more esoteric media are all under consider. I’ll even accept some small installations and light/shadow play as drawing if I can make that happen. Maybe even some photography could do the trick. Although, I am not that kind of photographer. No eye. Apparently. But I digress. I think the list explains it pretty well, I have to do a drawing outside of a sketchbook every week or so. Three per month is the ultimate goal.

For those of us keeping track, the previous post was the beginning of a painting. The first quarter of a finished piece. Maybe a quarter. Probably less. More will be revealed on that front. Again, I think the above list is pretty self explanatory. But I really want this one. These are probably the most time consuming things on the list because of the drying and waiting and overthinking and everything. However, they are also probably the most visually appealing or interesting to me and possibly others also. It’s the most traditionally popular item at any rate. I’ve limited myself to a minimum size and not a maximum. There’s not a big reason for that. But the minimum is set so I don’t cheat and do a bunch of tiny works and cheat myself out of doing something moderately sized and much better.

That’s kind of the list and the explanations of its parts. I have my goals. I have my ideas on what I’m going to do to accomplish the list. I may need to get myself some project ideas, some kind of guidance on content etc. maybe that’s where this all comes together and I get help from you. We shall see what happens. I’m kind of burned out on writing this post if I’m honest. That is all for now. More to come later. Happy new years.