Making plans and getting projects ready for 2017
Abstract Sunset
Nigel Borrington
So then 🙂 , this is my first blog post of 2017 – Happy belated New year to everyone 🙂
We returned home to Ireland a couple of days ago , following a wonderful Christmas spent with my sister and family in Manchester. It was a great time catching up sharing time, out side walking and visiting museums and art galleries, talking lots and watching the odd movie or two.
Today I spent sometime organizing my studio room and then shopping, I needed to get some new art supplies , including paint, brushes and sketch pads. Towards the end of last year I worked mainly with digital media for both photography and art work, however in 2017 I want to add real media including pencils , charcoal and acrylic paint to my work.
I am approaching this year in the form of a set of projects that I want to work on and complete by the end of the year. My main aim is to spend as much time as possible developing real skills and end up with a developed portfolio of work that records all the small steps involved with anything I do.
I feel strongly that art of all forms (including photography, drawing and painting) is a skill that involves development. This development needs in some way to be captured/recorded so that you can look back on the steps taken.
So I hope to find a method to record my year ahead, in the form of recorded steps that involve (notebooks, sketches, photos, poems, painting etc…) that all in all build towards finished works.
Above all I am looking forward very much to just getting going and being on a path again 🙂 🙂
Some work from 2016 …..
Two fishing boat
Keem Strand
Achill Island
County Mayo
Nigel Borrington 
I agree and think you found a wonderful way to keep track of progress. I have encouraged my daughter to start painting again and she loves it. I can already see her progress. I love your painting and how you are embracing more of it! Happy New Year my friend! 🙂
January 4, 2017 at 5:59 pm
🙂 🙂 , she is very lucky to have you 🙂 🙂
January 4, 2017 at 6:01 pm
AWE thank you! I’ve always drawn and painted and do that for a living graphically anyway so it was nice for her to realize she can paint and she loves it so that is a good feeling! 🙂 Keep up the good work. 😀
January 4, 2017 at 6:07 pm
Happy Belated to you as well, Nigel. Hope you and yours had an outstanding holiday season!
January 4, 2017 at 7:03 pm
Hi GP 🙂
Thank you and the same for you and yours 🙂 🙂
January 9, 2017 at 2:09 pm
Happy New Year, Nigel, and great to have you back with such enthusiasm. Looking forward to seeing how your projects unfold in 2017.
January 4, 2017 at 8:25 pm
Hi 🙂 🙂
Thank you , I hope you have a great 2017 yourself 🙂 🙂
January 9, 2017 at 2:09 pm
Thanks so much.
January 10, 2017 at 10:21 pm
Happy New Year, Nigel, looking forward to seeing more of your work this year. I love your sunset painting, the colours are so striking.
January 4, 2017 at 8:26 pm
Hi joan 🙂
Thank you , some to yourself 🙂 🙂
January 9, 2017 at 2:11 pm
Happy New Year and all the best on your fresh new path. Look forward to your sharing with us along the way. Blessings!
January 4, 2017 at 10:34 pm
🙂 🙂 🙂
January 9, 2017 at 2:11 pm
Happy New Year, Nigel! I love your painting and can’t wait to see what you create in the coming months.
January 5, 2017 at 12:14 am
Hi Elen 🙂
I hope this year is a great one for you !!!! 🙂
January 9, 2017 at 2:12 pm
Happy 2017. Good luck on the new projects.
January 5, 2017 at 3:28 am
Hello Arlene 🙂 🙂
Thank you , I hope you have a great 2017
January 9, 2017 at 2:12 pm
Well Happy New Year Nigel from me here in Manchester also. Good luck with your projects. I like to hear of positive plans. I should really make some myself but I doubt they will be as adventurous as yours.
January 5, 2017 at 11:32 am
Hello Elaine 🙂 🙂
I hope you have a great and very creative 2017 🙂 🙂
I miss Manchester – love it here but love home so very much 🙂 🙂
January 9, 2017 at 2:14 pm
Happy new year to you too. I look forward to seeing your paintings throughout the year . I too have tidied my studio and hope to progress with my oil paintings and their development – lots of plans afoot – all I have to do now is get going 🙂 Good luck with the painting and drawing too!
January 10, 2017 at 10:05 pm