When I sat down to write the update for this week I realized, in spite of best intentions and expectations, I had not yet had a chance to spend time playing with my toys. The digital ones and artistic ones that is. I did do a little Lego play and I finished reading a couple of books I have been working on.
Speaking of books. This is what I got for myself as a gift for the season. I haven’t really gotten into it yet. I just skimmed it a bit. I think it’s going to be really interesting. Since, I have a several stacks of books to read I’m not sure how quickly I will get to it.
I also finished up the Lego Advent calendar. For Christmas Eve I got a Santa figure. It was fun to put it all together and have something new to try each day.
I have been struggling for a while with my work space / play room. I can’t seem to get it arranged right with the right lighting and furniture and all that. As a result I am intermittently productive. I will have few days or weeks that I will get a lot of work
done on a project, either digital or regular art. And then I have a lot more days that I barely get anything done. It’s been a little frustrating. Once I painted my music room and my entry hall, I realized that part of the problem is the color of the walls. I have these tan sort of walls pretty much all over my condo. While I’m grateful they aren’t white, because white walls make me crazy, the color is really boring and uninspiring. It’s a buzz kill for sure. I’ve finally chosen some colors for the room but it’s going to be a big job just to clear the it enough to do the painting. So I’m not quite ready to start that. In the mean time I’ve been working on adding entertaining bits to the room. Little things that make it more interesting and that add some color.
As part of my decorations, I decided I needed some desk accessories. So I made them. There are lots of things that Lego bricks are good for. Here, they make a nice pencil holder and a nice sticky pad holder. I could also use a holder for some scratch paper I have. I was hoping it would fit in the holder for the sticky pads but since it didn’t, I guess, I’ll need to make something for that.
I have a couple of extra days off from the day job in addition to the Holiday days. I have a few plans for them. I still have Taekwondo on one of those days and the other day I’ll be stuck at home waiting for some inspectors for my A/C system, and I’m helping cat sit for a neighbor. Aside from that, I haven’t nailed down what I’m going to do with the time. There are a few things I could do, and might. Like, once I create the foot for the Penguin I need to attach the beak to the head to make it all one piece. Oh, and it needs eyes. Of course I’ll also need to mirror over everything from the one side to the other. I’ve also got that little Sticks piece to work on. It needs some movement. Maybe I’ll get started on that. And you know, since you haven’t seen a finished shot of either one, I still have both the Ovation Guitar painting and the Gretsch Guitar painting to work on. Neither of them are
anywhere near finish. None of that even touches the chores, home tasks, or even planning tasks for my projects. Oh. That’s something I think would be good to work on for the next week; reviewing what I got done this year and think about what I want to do for next year. It’s coming up pretty quick.
Here’s wishing you all a very happy and prosperous New Year.