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Travel painting: We’ll see how that goes – bound to be
better than 2020, I declared at the beginning of this year. To my surprise, my travel remained almost
entirely virtual, or even bucket list, like the one above, and when I finally
got out and painted a landscape, it was only 10 k from home.
Graphic novel: I wrote several blog posts about
producing a graphic novel based on a screenplay, but only added six new
paintings to the graphic novel I had started in 2020. It is based on a by-election in a constituency
in Alberta… and when the Canadian government called an unnecessary general
election in September of this year, I realized there was little interest in
elections of any sort, and put that project on hold.
Creative archaeology: In case my travel plans don’t work
out, I planned to re-interpret some of the photos and sketches I accumulated in
past archaeology-related travel with the University of Victoria travel study
program. I actually added 16 posts,
throwing in re-worked paintings from Art Gallery of Greater Victoria trips as
well.
Data analytics: I didn’t even mention this out loud in my
plan for this year, but during 2021 I ended up following this ‘suggestion’ by
the late Robert Genn:
“There’s always something to get on with, actually one damn
thing after another.”
One of the things that I ‘got on with’ was data analytics. In trying to convince some of my grandchildren that data analytics skills will be important for everybody, no matter what their field of study, it’s occurred to me it might be worthwhile to update my own understanding of the various concepts. There are four main kinds of analytics – descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive. I’m interested in predictive analytics, especially extrapolating and visualizing (and painting) unanticipated outcomes. I actually completed 14 blog posts that I tagged as ‘predictive analytics’ seven of which had original illustrations. The other seven were re-posts of pages from my book, “Inventing the Future.”
Next week I will post my Plan for 2022.
