On Tuesday, I shared my Master List of Home Goals for 2023. That’s an inventory of targets particularly relating to tasks that I hope to perform round the home, and I’ve been publishing that record originally of yearly for the final seven years. However this 12 months, I even have some private targets. A type of targets is to include extra lessons (in all probability all on-line, however we’ll see) and studying into my life. And this 12 months, the main target will likely be artwork and music.
I’ve already chosen/signed up for 3 artwork lessons and one music class, and I’m so enthusiastic about all of them! I don’t know once I’ll even have time to get by means of them, however I’m going to do my finest to make studying enjoyable stuff a precedence this 12 months.
Listed below are the lessons I’ve chosen (and already signed up for) to date this 12 months:
Yvette St. Amant’s Pocket Sized Sketchbook Collection
That is the primary class (really a category bundle of 4 completely different lessons) that I signed up for on the finish of final 12 months when she was working a vacation particular at low cost, you can see the classes here, along with a video showing what’s included in the classes.
What drew me to this class is her creation of those daring, colourful “pocket-sized” work that appear to fairly easy, however then the final class teaches find out how to take these easy work and switch them digitized, seamless patterns that can be utilized for cloth, wallpaper, and so forth.
It’s possible you’ll be pondering, “Kristi, you already know the way do this. You made your personal wallpaper to your studio!” Sure, I did. However I’ve by no means gone from my very own work/designs to cloth and wallpaper. So I’m hoping that this class will free me as much as create extra enjoyable and colourful patterns, after which possibly I’ll study a brand new approach (or study some useful suggestions) for turning these into repeatable, seamless patterns.
Lynsay Inexperienced’s Flourish & Bloom Class
The second class I’ll be taking is this floral art class from Linsay Green. For those who take a look at her Instagram, you’ll instantly see why I used to be so drawn to her artwork and her class.
I completely love her artwork — the daring colours, the composition, her use of florals and birds. These are the issues that drew me to her artwork and her Instagram account. However what drew me to her class is her use of various media in creating her artwork. She doesn’t simply use acrylic paints. She additionally makes use of inks, pens, and possibly extra that I’m not conscious of. So I’m very enthusiastic about this class, and I hope to mix what I study on this class and the primary class to create my very own daring multi-media patterns that can be utilized on cloth and wallpaper.
Jane Monteith’s Fused Concord Class
I’m solely on the waiting list for this class right now, and I’m actually hoping that this class received’t be too costly for me. I’ve already taken one in every of her lessons (just like this mixed media class, however mine was about half that value, and possibly half the knowledge), and I totally loved it. Regardless that I took the extra “stripped down” blended media class (which doesn’t appear to be out there anymore), I discovered a lot from her.
Jane is one in every of my absolute favourite artists on Instagram. She’s a blended media artist who works so much with patterned/textured papers (that she creates herself in some very distinctive methods), metals, encaustic, and resin. Her creativity blows me away. You can find her Instagram account here, and when you watch a couple of of her movies, I feel you’ll see what I imply.
Her personal fashion has modified over the time that I’ve been following her, and the colours she makes use of now aren’t fairly what I like, however her strategies and strategies are what intrigue me. Her inventive thoughts comes up with a few of the most wonderful and distinctive concepts, and people are issues I can use to create my very own fashion together with my very own favourite colours.
And eventually…
Piano In A Flash
I’m taking piano classes, y’all! 😀 I stored seeing this advert on Fb and Instagram for Piano In A Flash, and I’ve been desirous to get again into enjoying the piano for years now. So I made a decision to reap the benefits of their vacation/new 12 months sale.
I took piano classes for years once I was younger (elementary and center faculty age), and whereas I can nonetheless learn music and possibly study and play any newbie or intermediate piece of music that’s put in entrance of me (with a complete lot of observe and repetition), that’s not fairly what I wish to do that go ’spherical.
So once I noticed this advert for this man’s strategy of instructing music, I believed, “That’s precisely what I would like!” I don’t need music concept, scales, and all that stuff. I simply need the enjoyable stuff, and I would like to have the ability to sit down at my piano and pluck out a tune with a couple of chords. So I’m hoping that’s what I’ll have the ability to do by the top of this class.
So these are the 4 lessons I’ll be taking to date, and I’ll maintain y’all posted on how they’re going and the progress I’ve made on every one. And possibly in a couple of months, I may even do a video of me really enjoying a tune on my piano! I look ahead to it being greater than only a ornament within the music room, however an instrument that’s really getting used and liked and loved.
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