My Own Personal Stimulus Plan; #1

I've been artistically slumpy for awhile now ("slumpy" not a real word? It should be). My output has dwindled, and the inspiration just isn't flowing the way I like it to flow. I also feel muddled as to which directions and styles are calling my name, which ones already truly belong to me and where I want to be heading...or maybe I don't want to be heading anywhere at all, just sheer intuition and that one particular moment as I sit with brush in hand. I don't know, but slumping isn't going to foster any clarity on the matter.

So I need a kick in the butt, a stimulus plan. A 30 day art journal challenge of my own making, just to get the juices going. I am aiming for 5 days a week, weekends off. I am going to try to be good about posting, if not daily, every couple of days. Some may remember the last challenge I did at the Gary Reef ning last year, I think I got to like day 25 and chucked it...which is sooo like me, and makes me smile. We'll see how it goes this time.

So without further ado...

#1

An underpainting in charcoal. Many shades of blue. Acrylics, pan pastels, book pages, acylic ink. Done in my 9"x9" "Super Deluxe" Aquabee notebook (which all the following pages will be done in, unless otherwise specified).

I was thinking of stars. And purpose.