I was musing to myself the other day about the idea of blogging every day, and whether I wanted to continue after the 200th day or not. It seemed like a good cut-off point to decided whether to end my streak, or whether to carry on. I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it, and decided that it is useful to me more days than it feels like a terrible bind – those days do happen, but aren’t as frequent as I imagined they would be.
I decided that I can be loose around posting exactly what I did on the day I am posting, especially if I feel it is a half-baked idea I am not ready to write about yet. I also decided it’s OK to be less wordy on some days if I’m just not feeling it. It’s whatever works for me.
TLDR I think my streak chasing blogging habit is working for me for the moment, so I’m continuing.
Randomly, yesterday a good old Guardian Lifestyle article popped up in one of my feeds that relates to this quite well: “Don’t break the streak! How a daily ritual can enrich your life – or become an unhealthy obsession.“
I conclude that I am not in unhealthy obsession territory streaking on my blog.
🙂
Today in the studio I carried on testing the new sketchbook to see how it copes with media. It is better paper than the book I finished the other day, so it doesn’t need gesso just to give the paper more body. It also seems to handle acrylics in layers without a lot of buckling. Given it was so inexpensive, it’s quite impressive.
I had some grey paint I mixed the other day that I wanted to use, so I filled a spread with random stencil marks. I really liked the muted effect of the grey, so I mixed the same shade again in one of my screw pots to keep for another day. I pushed the stencil marks back a bit with white gesso and a palette knife, and then I had no idea what to do next.
I was searching through some of my reference photos for inspiration, thinking it would be a portrait, and this horse jumped out at me, and ended up in my sketchbook.
I really like this spread, and it’s bubbling with ideas for other things, and aside from all that. it’s a horse. Wonderful beatsies.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
205/300
Thrummie Bizzum 
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