Nile at Aswan
watercolour
©2008 Charlene Brown
©2008 Charlene Brown
I started this blog
exactly 10 years ago on 2 January 2009, posting this painting of the Nile River
at Aswan, as viewed from the roof of our hotel during a UVic travel study
program in Egypt.
The rest of this post
is a review of progress on various blog-to-book projects during 2018 and my
plans for these projects in 2019:
Clean energy
haiku/haiga project: I have compiled 50 illustrated poems using
‘found’ haiku and computer-stylized versions of landscape paintings from all
the provinces and territories of Canada into a first draft of a book,
‘Inventing the Future with Clean Energy Haiku.' I hope to have this ready for on-line
publication and availability on Amazon later this year.
I had hoped to
complete a first draft of an auto-fictional journal, ‘What Could Possibly Go
Wrong?’ about the career planning and launching years in the lives of girls in six generations of my family. I do have what could be
called a draft of the first four chapters (beginning in 1898, 1925, 1958 and
1987) but so far, the final chapters (beginning in 2017 and 2042) are still
pretty much collections of random thoughts – and speculation. Maybe I'll get enough written that I'll be able to call
the whole thing a first draft this year.
I compiled 24
archaeology-related paintings into six cross-cultural ‘time capsules’
representing the following time periods:
A few years ago I put together a
cross-cultural 'History of Design' timeline covering art and architecture from
prehistoric times to the beginning of the twenty-first century. To do this, I
used either facts I'd learned while visiting archaeological sites or things I'd looked up
when I was writing blog posts about them. I plan to link this ‘History of
Design’ table to the above time capsules.
