Lee Thomson

It helps me think about what I am doing if I can make it into a list. So I worked on formalizing yesterday’s nebulous concepts into a list, and it looks liket his:

Art commitments:

• media of the moment – an extended set of experiments with a particular media going for at least a month, possibly six weeks, and consisting of the daily thing and the weekly thing

• daily thing – daily sample of the media of the moment
• weekly thing – using the samples or new knowledge of the media of the moment, make a 5×7” work

• monthly thing – SharonB’s Take it Further Challenge  (TIF) – work off the colors every time, try to get to the theme as well
• trees/leaves – finish 5 of 10 leaves each series (a project I have been idly thinking about for a year) for gingko, birch, dogwood, maple, oak
• start the first of the weeds series on 12×12" backgrounds

Personal stuff:

• call your mother
• ride a horse
• laugh with a friend
• go to a gallery/museum
• ride your bike with your family

These are things I intend to do this year. In June I will revisit the media of the moment concept and see what I have left in my stash to explore. It could be a semester course, or it may go all year. I am not sure how many different kinds of stuff I have in there. The weekly thing will keep me making stuff with my experiments, and I will try to tie the monthly thing to the media of the moment experiments as well.

so Mom – you’ve moved up the list in importance, and you should hear from me soon.