Palm
Springs from the top of the Tramway
Watercolour
and marker
©2017
Charlene Brown
Here’s a good reason for having an art blog – it enables you to write self-fulfilling prophecies
Mostly, when friends or people I meet hear I have an art blog, they will express surprise (at YOUR age!) They’ll ask a couple of polite questions but generally they don’t interrogate me about the thing.
Sometimes however, they’ll want details. Muttering vaguely that I enjoy painting and posting a painting every week requires that I make time for painting regularly will barely slow them down. They’ll ask what I’m doing with my blog.
If they look interested after I say a few words about paintings I’ve written about on my blog, I try a little strategic extrapolation about what I’m going to do next.
Then, in order to avoid having my extrapolation turn into an outright lie, I actually have to do something — resulting in the renowned self-fulfilling prophecy.
In early January each year I publish* these extrapolations on my blog as plans
for the coming year. These plans can
include any activity, really, that might result in a series of paintings, or
even a book.
*Publishing my extrapolations pretty well guarantees that they will become self-fulfilling prophecies.
Should you be wondering about the painting above: My first blog post each year (the one with the prophecies) is usually illustrated with a painting of the place we’ve just spent Christmas -- such as Palm Springs.
