One of the things that I struggle with is that there are too many things that I want to work on at any point in time.
So, try I end up doing a lot of dabbling. I do a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And the bits are quite excellent, buy but there’s so much unfinished and unmastered. I want to focus on refining skills as much as I want to increase the volume of skills.
But how do you choose? What gets put into the background and potentially forgotten, seek so that time is spent truly developing talents on one subject?
At work, I want to spend more time with emerging web technologies. HTML5 and CSS3 are calling to me. I want to branch out to other CMS systems, not just WordPress. I want to program some SQL.
At home, I fall back to knitting in the evenings when I can’t decide what other media to work on. It’s like comfort food when you’re sick. It’s familiar and healing. But it’s also not a growth opportunity, and another passion is put aside while I create in fiber. This isn’t a bad more info
thing, but it sometimes feels like a cop out.
I am learning to work with pastels. But I want to spend more time with watercolor pencils. And then there are those 4 canvases and acrylics sitting patiently, waiting for the crow project I’ve been developing.
And then there’s this growing itch to work with wood. It’s been too long and there is something that makes the core of me feel really right when I can find the object buried inside of a branch. There’s a sandblasting technique I want to try, and lathework I’m longing to do.
Oh, and the pile of steel I am collecting for when I learn to weld and use a plasma cutter.
And writing that book to fund the tools I want. I suppose that still takes precedence.
But today…there’s my 8 to 5 eMarketing job that only allows me coffee breaks to daydream about being a mixed media artist. I am fortunate enough to love my work, since I can satisfy my graphic artist right brain along with my technical coding left brain.
I wish I didn’t waste so much time on sleep when there’s so much creating to do!