Watercolour, crayon and marker
©2016 Charlene Brown
“We tend to overestimate what we can do in
an average day but underestimate what can be done over the course of a year.
Looking at a whole year in review, you may be surprised at everything you’ve
accomplished.” Encouraged once again by this statement by Chris Gillebeau, I’m
having a look at what I’ve accomplished with this blog in the past year. Here are some highlights concerning progress
on The Plan for
2015.
I’ve excerpted and
combined information and ideas from old projects
that I haven’t looked at for a while and made some of them part of a new
project. My new project, a compilation
of things I have started to write about Visualization, is an offshoot of
the Fine Art of Physics book I completed in April of 2015. I’ve begun with a series of posts about visualizing and illustrating ‘clean energy’ haiku poetry. Will the results be enigmatic but inspirational? Or just bewildering?
In the area of travel
journaling, I painted a series of 15 sketches during and after an Art Gallery of Greater Victoria trip to Japan in November...
and I’ve done my usual 'virtual travel journaling' by participated in all
12 Virtual Paintouts this year, Philadelphia, Bangladesh, Greenland, Bhutan, Cesky Krumlov, Estonia,
Santa Fe, Monterey, Utah, The Philippines, Istanbul and Ecuador.
The Plan for 2016:
I’m planning to continue travel journaling
(and, of course, traveling) as much as I can, as well as continuing to shift from representational landscapes to more stylized paintings and adding some people to my landscapes.
I hope to make significant progress on my Haiku project.
