January is usually a fallow time in art for me, can't make much, but I wondered if I could do a little something anyway. And in the course of winnowing, I came across one more of the little booklets I made a while back, with the Chinese ink drawing on the cover. And pages already installed but not stitched.
Then I remembered sister dogonart's great idea for her art group, to whom I'd sent books like this recently. She challenged the group to make some art on page one of their books, ready for their next meeting. And I thought what a great idea. And now that I found a book for me, thought I could do that, too!
What I plan is to do a small drawing or painting or something each day in January, most probably drawing, and I instantly found a charcoal pencil, and did a rapid drawing of sleeping Marigold all clumped up on the sofa.
I fixed it with a spritz of hairspray, no need for expensive fixatives, only use hairspray on art, not hair!
So Day One of the January book, no sooner thought of than done, and thank you dogonart and the CQTeers. This is the first charcoal drawing I've done in ages.
I think this may be an offshoot of my musings about journals. Perhaps this is a form of journal for me. Hadn't thought of that. But the brain does a lot of work we don't know much about.
