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

January 4, 2017 | Categories: Art and craft work, Comment, Personal skills and development | Tags: 2017, art, art materials, development, Nigel Borrington, painting, pencil, Plans, projects, skills | 19 Comments