Starting the new year.

Another revolution around the sun, which for Euro centric countries, focusses on January 1st. While of course any day that you see something you want to change change it. I am focusing on doing something creative everyday. On new year’s I started a painters elevation for James & the Giant Peach. Instagram pic:

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That is this year, checking a box for every day I am doing something creative. Not focussing on the hashtags or the likes. but just putting the work down on paper or pixels. I will eventually gather this somehow together. Ugh. That probably means tagging them somehow.

Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List | Open Culture


A nice peek into the mind of the day to day of an artist.

Source: Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List | Open Culture

The daily routines have always been interesting to me. Is it because I strive to have a routine? Another thing that is intriguing in the post is:

John Updike once wrote that “excellence in the great things is built upon excellence in the small”.

Which to me is linked to the idea that quantity leads to quality.

Found via Austin Kleon

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