Publish.

This year, I unthinkingly, impulsively, on the spur of the moment after listening to Andy J. Pizza of Creative Pep Talk (I Think it was him, but several relatively unconnected things all mentioned this at around the same time, so I’m not entirely sure) mention thinking about sharing your work as publishing, and the importance of sharing your work instead of keeping it to yourself, made the sole New Years Resolution to share every piece of art I made this year. I started on Instagram stories, but have grown more and more disillusioned with IG the past few months. This may in some ways be me trying to sabatoge my resolution, as I’m a bit of a perfectionist, very scared of sharing my work most of the time, and almost always ready to undermine decisions that would be good for me. I tried Substack and Patreon, but neither one felt quite right. And just yesterday I learned about this service, and the errant thought that I could post everything here crossed my mind and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. And I need to start an email list anyways. So here goes. This year I’m posting every piece of art I make. Not on social media. Take Two. And I’m not necessarily waiting for it to be “done” to post. I’m going to go with Oliver Burkeman’s 70% idea, and post my paintings at least initially when I feel they’re 70% done, or 70% good enough.

So get ready to see a lot of 70% paintings, I guess.