Tag: art

#14 Finish a full art journal

Y’all it has been a hot minute since I’ve made a post. This year has already been so chaotic with work and now with covid19 I have absolutely no idea what’s going on anymore. But what I do know my challenges and goals are super important to me, so I want to take some time and refocus and try to get some things accomplished. 2020 has been a year of work and stress so far and I feel like I haven’t moved forward and right now I need this list to motivate me to go forward and to do things.

Now onto the actual post!

I don’t wanna bombard you with the full thing, but here are some of my favorite things I’ve done in my Journal.

First Here is my Art Journal:

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Cue collage!

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A lot of this isn’t my original work or anything, it’s stuff I’ve followed along off tutorials, or stuff I saw on pinterest and tried my best to copy. I am not good with calling images to my mind, so I always need a reference to do any sort of art, but this wasn’t for me to show off my art. This art journal became a place to distract me from stress or boredom and it was just something fun to play around with. There was no pressure for it to be good and it’s not like when I was in grade school where it would be graded on based on assignments. It was just whatever I felt like doing and that was so freeing.

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Knowledge

Honestly, I want to learn all the things and just gain as much knowledge as I can through this life. Putting this list together was heavy struggle for me and it may change throughout the years, but as a basis this is where it is starting.

Knowledge Goals:

  1. Read 1000 books
    • Right out the gate with a big number and after seeing how difficult I’ve been struggling with a list of 100 things, I somehow believe that I can read 1000 books. I track all the books I read and have read on goodreads and currently I am up to 307 books read. Also, for this goal I’m not talking every book is a novel. Essentially, everything that I track on my goodreads will count and that includes novels, short stories, web serials, manga, manhwa, comics, etc. Just anything that I read and I think values to be added on my goodreads.
  2. Fluent Spanish
    • I’m a Puerto Rican that has terrible Spanish and that needs to be fixed.
  3. Proficient Korean
    • This just sounds fun and not gonna lie I am mostly learning this because I’m currently on a kdrama kick. Plus, the language is super interesting and now being able to recognize Hangul randomly whenever I’m out in town is cool.
  4. Obscure history
    • I am not sure how I will know if I have fulfilled this goal. Perhaps, know over 10 obscure history things that become my go to conversation topic. Classify them as known obscure history after I have had good conversations with people about the history. And by good conversations I mean actually having real conversation about the topic and not just me talking at a person about this cool fact.
  5. Connoisseur of Tea
    • I love tea. Therefore, I must be a tea master.
  6. Study Business
    • Ironically, I actually already do lots of business-y type things, but I don’t have proper education and I am getting to a point in my life where it is becoming a bit more essential to have the research. Can’t really wing things any more when lots of people and money are involved.
  7. Art History
    • I’ve always wanted to be the person that sees a painting and be like “oh yes, this is a Rembrandt.” To do that I’m going to have to study up on art styles and actually have a better understanding of how to tell the difference of art styles and the era it was done. Sadly, a lot of the time the meaning of art just goes over my head and I just nod like I get it, when really I am heavily lost.
  8. Astronomy
    • I’m not gonna lie this is absolutely an excuse to get into stargazing and to rationalize my want of a telescope. (Was originally Oceanography, but for the life of me I could not get into anything ocean related)
  9. Study a Theory
    • Not sure which one, but I would like an in-depth scientific one with lots of material out there, so I can get as much of an understanding as I can about it.
  10. Learn something I have no prior interest in
    • This will help me get out of my comfort zone of knowledge and maybe gain an appreciation for a topic that I normally wouldn’t care for.

Creative

I’m going to have to get creative with this list…. Yeah lame pun. Was worth it.

Creative List:

  1. Master a classical piano piece
    • I’ve been playing the piano since I was a kid and it’s embarrassing to say how much I actually suck at it. This has been something that I have already been working on and it’s something that I have always loved, but have just never been good/patient enough. Also, I’m talking full mastery of this piece, not the easier version just to say I did it. I want the difficult, fast paced piece that will literally make me scream in anguish, but will be totally worth it. This was originally 5, but I don’t want to get stuck on a number. Right now I just want to focus on a piece that I love and if I continue to learn more I’ll be thrilled. But for this goal I’d like just to have one under my belt.
  2. Make a table top game
    • I love board games, card games, dice games, just games. Therefore, I want to make my own table top in its entirety. I want to have a box on my shelf of my game and be like “yeah, I made that.”
  3. Build a game table (Looking at you Brother)
    • As much as I love my board games I have nowhere awesome to play them. My dear brother of mine came up with the idea to build this table a year or two ago and it has yet to happen. I’m going to choose to believe it will happen before I’m 30.
  4. Finish a full art journal
    • With all journals I get about 20 pages in, then forget about it and then start a new one. So for this I want to have a journal and fill it completely up, but writing all the time is difficult (read: she says as she’s writing a blog post). To counter that I am starting an art journal (read: I am so not artistic) that will be full of randomness and maybe some art (read: it won’t be pretty).
  5. Paint a picture
    • I’m not a strong painter, but I’d like to go to a Canvas and Cocktails so I see myself doing this one day. Plus, it’s not like the picture needs to look good…right?
  6. Scrapbook
    • My parents have all of the family and childhood photos just stacked up in a closet still inside the Walmart developed photo envelopes. Never been touched, just there. I’d like to go through all of it, maybe with my family and get them all in photo albums. I secretly wanna be Leslie Knope, so I’m going to make this goal focused on making a cool scrapbook.
  7. Learn calligraphy
    • The videos of calligraphy are always so cool and calming and pretty. I wanna learn the ways.
  8. Bake and Decorate an Eccentric Cake
    • This is a smidge drastic and extravagant. I was thinking like Cake Wars, but maybe not exactly like Cake Wars. They go all out and they know what they are doing (ish) and I am not nearly skilled enough. I just wanna decorate a cake that looks awesome at least once in my life though. Think a less extreme Cake Wars cake for the beginner level cake lover.
  9. Learn ballroom dancing
    • Who doesn’t wanna dance like a classy boss?
  10. Learn to Play Recuerdos de la Alhambra
    • For those of you who don’t know this song it is a classical guitar piece that I’ve recently developed a fascination for. Fun fact I don’t know how to play guitar besides Wonderwall by Oasis and this seems like something completely random that I want under my belt.