Beautiful Landscapes, Idly Painted

Monthly Retrospective: January 2025

Sky A Day

I started the month by attempting a “sky a day” challenge, but I abandoned it by day 4.

Random Explorations

After that, I felt a lot of freedom to explore completely random things: test paintings of new techniques, redos of old work, limited palette studies. I feel I am in a period of exploring and learning – not necessarily doing better work yet, but laying the groundwork.

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Ink Sketching

After a couple of weeks of being directionless, I was ready to join a live run of Claire Giordano’s Ink Sketching class. Here are my daily sketches for “homework.”

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