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Resolutions - why?

31/1/2015

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I made one new year resolution for 2015.  Just one (well, one that I put out there, anyway).  Which was to do a postcard's worth of artistic endeavour a day.  It could have been anything - sketch, collage, print, doodles, even using it to mop up a spill of coffee - but the point was to establish some kind of a flow.  Here I am on the last day of January, and how many have I managed?  Four.  Four, and three of those were accidental - I had the postcard-sized pieces of paper right there and they were more or less the size for the collagraphs I'm doing at the moment.  The first (on the 1st) was a poorly-looking sketch done in a rush, late in the day, so that at least I'd be started.  Ha!  First and last, in all honesty.
So I think that counts as a big fat failure (talking of which, I didn't fare any better with the not-quite-formulated resolutions).  However, I'm printing, which is good.  I have a handful of monotype books all part-way through, which isn't quite so good because they should have been finished before christmas, but better than not even started.  And I still like the postcard idea.  It's just that I don't dare tie it to any kind of resolution, because it would seem that dooms it to failure before it's even started.
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Jacqueline Quinn link
12/2/2015 01:01:04 pm

Hi Karen, I have one of your beautiful books from The Baltic in Gateshead. How do I join your blog please?

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Karen
12/2/2015 02:13:24 pm

Hi Jacqueline, have contacted you via your website

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    I make prints and book arts, though nowhere near as often as I'd like - no good reason, just an inability to get on with things.  I occasionally go on about landscape (with which I am mildly obsessed) and various of its elements, and I like to pass comment on exhibitions I visit.

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