New Year's Resolution: A Portrait A Day

Inspired by Jacob de Graaf's Daily Portrait Project I'm going to draw a portrait every day for a year and post the results on this blog with the label "A Portrait A Day." I may miss posting a few days as I seem to be a magnet for technical difficulties but I will draw everyday and will post make-up portraits. From life or from a photo or possibly from imagination are all ok.

I'm hoping to spend more time actually drawing instead of frittering away my time reading blogs, and to approach more people about drawing them.

So: let's see if I can get a portrait up before midnight.

Happy blogiversary, to me!

So it occurred to me that my blog has a "blogiversary." And that I missed it. This November marks three years of Post- but I barely wrote anything the first two years. I guess I started writing so much in 2011 because of a New Year's Resolution-- the first resolution I appear EVER to have kept (2011 also marks the third annual failure to be able to do a single push-up as resolved). My goal is 100 total posts by New Year's; I'm at 82 so far.

I've run into two of the artists I've blogged about in random places and chatted, and seen others out & about who had no idea who I was, which was kinda weird. Having people mention they read the blog and having people comment is so cool! Definitely worth the effort.

I'm glad I've gotten more practice at writing because when I went back and read my first couple of posts they didn't make any fucking sense. "Now," I mused in 2008, "painting and all the painterliness it entails has been irrevocably identified as a sort of monument to Culture." What?! I'm swifter to edit things down to a manageable size now, if you can believe it. So on that note:

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