It’s the Year of the Dragon!
And I’ve thought of a couple of goals that to add to the new year resolutions. Yeah 1 month in… But who cares? Chinese New Year resolutions maybe?
1) Keep the unread email count low, below 100 as much as possible.
I’ve been clearing my mails a lot more, but I didn’t over the CNY holidays and now it’s over 200 unread mails now… Opps. Gotta par that down soon.
2) Finish a Khadi fatbook. It’s a nice, fat book. But it’s not *that* many pages. If I use up 2 or 3 pages per weekend, I should be able to finish one this year!
3) Work on finishing that Nerdforge sketchbook.
Reality is that that sketchbook has too many pages, and unless I use a page everyday, I’m not gonna be able to finish it this year. And finishing it this year isn’t really the goal either… But I’ll work on it!
Other than that… Well I can’t think of much else. I’ve already got the rest covered previously, I think. I definitely want to keep using up all my stock of watercolor paper. It’s always nice to finish *something*. Whether it be a stack of paper, or a sketchbook.
The email count thing is something that I’ve wanted to do since the start of the year, and have been doing it pretty well since Jan. No more 999+ mails again, I hope. Clearing mail is much quicker on the gmail app, except also not really because of the stupid lack of navigation options within the mail itself, at least not that I’ve been able to figure out thus far in the iOS app.
I finally got back to using my supplies again. Did I mention it? I think not. I cleared out my room big time. Massive spring cleaning. Not that it’s really clean now, far from it. But I threw out so much stuff. You can’t imagine how much sh*t there was in my room. There’s still so much stuff on my other desk… But at least I put away the iMac on the desk I’ve been using as my main for many years now… And now I have a lot more space for art and stuff. Still not quite enough, but much improved from before.
I finally looked through my watercolors yesterday and found like four pans with mold and scrubbed off the mold and added clove oil to them. So far so good with the clove oil, no more mold, even on the worse offenders. Which is a huge relief.
Practiced doing some dragons today, and ended up with the above photo as my ‘final product’. It was fun… But now I’m back to easy roses… Well been trying out different brushes though. Actually liking those natural squirrel hair brushes a lot more now, though I do wish they were stiffer. But seeing as how much water the khadi paper needs… Yeah I’m definitely liking them more now. In fact the dragon was done with the natural squirrel hair brush.
Will probably give the goat hair one another try.
But hmm… I suppose that’s all for now? Oh yeah, I put together a ‘bed arting kit’ yesterday, haven’t actually used it yet. Maybe on weekdays? Then I can do random sketches in the NerdForge sketchbook and inch closer to finishing that.
Ok, till next time!