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One goal for myself this year in 2010 is to create a painting / drawing / sketch every day as part of the Creative Every Day Challenge 2010. This is not particularly a hardship or difficult for me except on days when I might slack off and not do it … it is those days that I believe it is the most important for me to do it .. lol … another goal for me is to participate in Illustration Friday every Friday in 2010. So far, I am right on target … I have done artwork every day – including today’s sketch that I just did before writing this blog post – and I did this Friday’s topic Confined.

One challenge I have discovered by participating in both Creative Every Day and Illustration Friday is that sometimes the artwork I create for the day is bits & pieces of … odds & ends … abstract or sketches of stuff or perhaps just plain doodling thoughts.

Yesterday I did not have anything in mind and I just started drawing a shape … a circle … then I put another shape inside … eventually I had an paper full of odd designs … I am not sure that I want to do anything with it except just see it and know it is my artwork for yesterday. But I know that it was an important step on my path … I do not know how to explain it to myself yet … let alone to the world … but I feel as if I unlocked … something … yesterday … within myself.

This, I believe, is the reason I made my goals to participate this entire year I need to explore and discover more about myself, my artwork and my making artwork process!