Insights and Ponderings on Art

“It’s hard to know what direction to take when you don’t know where you want to go.”

I’m sure I’m not the first person to say this.

I find myself in this predicament fairly often.

I think it’s because I want to try ALL the mediums, styles and techniques. But I also want to start amassing a body of cohesive work that is identifiable as mine.

At the beginning of the year I felt I needed ‘something’ to help me get beyond this floundering. I Googled all sorts of things but to paraphrase myself, ‘It’s hard to Google what you don’t know you want’.

I finally decided on Carla Sonheim’s “Y” is for Yellow year long class.

Part of the class is to keep a journal. I am NOT by any stretch of the imagination an art journaler. I never have been and I doubt this is going to convert me. But I’m dutifully doing it.

We are supposed to devote two pages of the journal to each letter of the alphabet and fill the pages throughout the year.

Not being a journaler I struggled to come up with an idea for the pages.

Carla suggested for each letter we research artists whose names begin with that letter.

Easy enough.

I’m only up to letter ‘B’ and I’m quite surprised. Not with the artists but with myself!

I’m learning more about myself than the artists I’m researching.

And all this self discovery is pointing me in the direction I want to go!

Who knew?

Isn’t Carla smart?