Ah, yes. It’s that time of year again.
Time for honing writing skills to a razor sharp edge and spending many an hour re-sizing documentation photos in post production.
In other words, ’tis time to prep the annual proposal mailout.
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One week into the 30-day No-video Challenge and I am feeling…challenged.
Thinking back on the last time I cut out the talkies I do remember it being difficult.
The second time around feels infinitely more difficult.
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The fine folks in the advertising biz really need to brush up on their grammar.
Case in point – Starbuck’s latest billboard seen around town:
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In 2008 I divulged all my best secrets for frugal living. Once I had shared every last one I “retired” Rich Little Poor Girl, with the promise to reinstate and reveal new tactics as they arose.
It’s been a long sabbatical for the RLPG, but she’s back with a tricky little tidbit that will not only help save you dollars, it will help save the environment, too.
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I’m at the start of something really exciting.
I’m learning how to market my art biz.
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For several years I documented my own artwork, and I did a pretty good job.
Good.
Not great.
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Every so often it is a good idea to schedule a break during production so that you can perform maintenance, especially if you have equipment or machinery that is getting consistent use.
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Whew! What a day.
Four and a half hours dedicated to documenting the recently completed Wolfville and Fredericton pieces. Thankfully I wasn’t doing it by myself – I employed my resident photographer, Kenji Nagai (his studio is on the second floor of my building, so I feel entitled to call him “mine” 🙂 ).
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That’s right folks, it’s back. The 30 Day No-video Challenge.
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Every one of us has times when we are feeling not quite up to snuff, that we’ve bitten off more than we can chew, or that we are careening towards an epic fail in our career or life.
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Today I convinced Andrew to join me on an art escapade – a field trip out to the Maple Ridge Art Gallery for the opening of Shari Pratt’s tasty paintings.
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There is one question that almost always comes up about the Slim series during an opening or artist talk.
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I love dance, theatre, music, spoken word – anything live and creative. I used to make a point of attending the Fringe festival, Vancouver Opera, 20 Minutes Max, and so on. I’m disappointed to report that 2012 contained very little culture that was not of my own making.
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SameDay delivered my artwork this afternoon. I’ve just spent the last six hours unpacking, checking, and repacking artwork, so today’s post will be short and sweet.
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I’m not loyal to brands unless the product is outstanding. As far as sketchbooks go, I don’t think you can do much better than a Canson Universal Recycled Sketchbook:
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Despite my year and a half of yoga and practicing mindfulness, I am still one impatient little monkey.
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I don’t know if it’s the downturn in the weather or the fact that most of the muscle groups in my body are screaming (brutal Yoga Fit class), but it’s been a rough weekend.
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In a previous post I’d listed some of my professional accomplishments over the past year. Here is one of my personal achievements for 2012…
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Many of you will already know what I’m talking about when I say “accountability partner”. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, an accountability partner is simply someone – or, in my case, sometwo 🙂 – who holds you accountable to the things you say you’re going to do, and vice versa.
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Being this is the beginning of a fledgling new year I thought it might be pertinent to publicly lay out my goals for 2013. You could call them resolutions, though I prefer to think of them as intentions.
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I had an odd collection of cheeses, yogurt, red pepper, and fruit salad in my mini fridge that I wanted to eat up, so once again I left a note for Bonnie letting her know I would fend for myself regarding breakfast.
Saturday was incredible; sunny and unseasonably warm. Halfway to the gallery I took off my jacket and walked joyfully in my t-shirt, arms bare to the October sun.
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I’d left a note for the B&B hostess, Bonnie, on Thursday night letting her know I would be “sleeping late” Friday morning and faring for breakfast myself.
I basked in the laziness of my morning. After an intense week of set-up it felt good to have a less stressful day ahead of me.
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I dragged myself out of bed on Thursday morning and I could tell that the week was taking its toll on me.
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On Wednesday morning I decided which pieces would go on which plinths and started the involved process of plinth Tetris in the large central space of the gallery.
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9 o’clock Tuesday morning found me back at the gallery, smoothing out rough filler patches and applying a coat of paint to 13 plinths.
While the paint dried I busied myself hanging the wall pieces around the perimeter of the space.
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Five short weeks after being in Wolfville, NS, I was once again Eastern bound.
Air Canada’s mid-October schedule didn’t offer an afternoon Toronto to Fredericton connection. I wasn’t keen on having a six hour plus layover that got me to my destination at midnight, so I decided to fly red-eye.
I hadn’t flown red-eye in over a decade, and I was quickly reminded why.
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I thought that today I’d be able to continue my “wrapping up” posts for this year.
Wrong.
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And by “wicked” I mean “wicked good”.
At least that’s how I hope it will turn out.
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While I waited for the paint to dry on the canoes, I began work on the figures. Running with the idea of extirpation and extinction I began to research New Brunswick species that fell under either of these two categories.
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The Fredericton piece began much the same way as the Wolfville piece did, with a flood of research.
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