A Sketching Workshop and Some Clippings

First, my updated goal calendar...  Not so much artsy stuff.  I'll have to make it in my bigger journal next month...

It will feel great when it's all filled up!!!  That said, I purposefully took this weekend off to let my legs rest a little.  I was going to wait until Thursday night to ride again, but then the Bikin' Bettie's seem to have a fun ride planned for tomorrow night.  And I have bike club.  ...  We'll see what happens.  (I'll have to take Thursday night off from riding if I make it out with the Betties tomorrow.)

So - mini-goal:  Check out at least one online workout this week!  I've been meaning to do that for a while, and I've had a couple of opportunities, but have still put it off.  

I took a Travel Sketchbook workshop this Saturday, 2 hours at Jerry's.  I took some notes, and she had us do a couple of activities: blind contour sketching (my red pepper) and a label.  She talked to us about design elements of a page and how she plans for it, how she adds stuff in to make it look like a neato page...  It was pretty cool.  As much as I know about desktop publishing, I'd have thought that I could do an artsy-fartsy journal page, but it's two totally different things...  You can't clip and maneuver stuff on a page in your sketchbook like you can with stuff on a computer.  She should really write a book.  She could have a chapter for each element you add to the page.  I tried to take notes on my page:  the drawing, the title, repeated doodles, colors, writing... and there was more, but that's all I got on my page.  

And now for clippings and pages from my school sketchbook...  

Art and Journaling

So, I've got goals.  Not important goals, but important-to-me goals...  maybe.  At least, I have goals...

Anyway, combining the two, art and journaling, has never really been a goal of mine, but why not?  I've certainly seen some stuff that I like, so maybe I can start getting it together.  And, let's start with a very small step: a calendar.

So, I drew the calendar by hand, watercolor pencil first, then watercolor...  And now I'm tracking my goal for the month: working out.  I'm motivated by seeing what I've done, so I'm putting in mileage.  And what I already know that I've got to do is find a way to do more workouts during the week.  But, honestly, it's hard:  I've got to get my face time in with the kiddo, then make dinner, then bedtime routine, then I'm exhausted and I try really hard just to stay away long enough to pump!...  One would think I could work out during this time, but I have to pump at 10:30, and if I workout just before I get ready for bed, meaning in that time between getting the little one to bed and pumping/going to bed myself, I would have a really hard time falling asleep!...  so, it's hard.  

But I digress.  

I'm mixing art and journaling.  We'll see what happens.  Probably not much to start with, but maybe I'll get more art into my journaling one day soon.  Wouldn't that be nice?  :-)

Maybe I need bigger paper?  

Then I'll have more space to paint/draw artsy fartsy stuff into my calendars...

Back to Work!

Working on working out, being active.  That's what I'm focusing on this month.  That said, our Girlie Group has homework to work on goals.  So I brainstormed.  And at the top of the list was "Art every day."  So I figure I should get back to working on that...  

And, yesterday, here's my art that I did with one of my students...  I want to show Ms. Lopez, the art teacher.  And I want to do more stuff like this...  just do-ing it.  

And now, I'm back!!!