Review of 2014:
What went well? Travel journaling – especially
the Balkans trip. I completed 24 paintings, most of which I’m happy with, and the rest of which provide more interesting
illustration than straight-up photographs.
Once again I’ve painted every Google Streetview location presented in
the the Virtual Paintout this year. The pictures illustrating
this post are from Rome
What didn’t? Adding people to my paintings… I added quite a few, but I’m not
generally happy with them.
What was new? I finally learned something about iPad art at
an excellent ‘Artogrphy’ course at Camosun
College here in Victoria
The Plan for 2015:
What to let go of to start 2015
anew? Old projects that never got past
the background info-gathering stage, or what’s left of those that have been
excerpted for better projects. That’s a
lot of paper to be recycled out of binders and files, and a lot of MBs of
computer memory to be cleared.
What to continue? I’m planning to
continue travel journaling (and, of course, traveling) as much as I can. So far I have two very tentative travel plans
for 2015. I hope to continue shifting
from representational landscapes toward more stylized paintings and add some
people to my landscapes.
What would I like for main
accomplishment? Finish ‘Fine Art of
Physics’ Start a new book – it will be
something I want to read that hasn’t been written yet. Try designing an iPad
art app.
