Some Highlights of December 2018 and a review of 2018.
I started this newsletter at the beginning of the year. It’s been nice to look back each month and take stock of the things I’ve accomplished that month and the goals and plans I have for the following month. It’s also created a sense of structure to my creative work. I’ve been working on updates to my website including posting this monthly newsletter there. I wrote about some of my feelings about the current state of posting art and writing on the internet in my last newsletter.
My goals for 2019 are to consistently post this newsletter for the month in the last week of that month. I’d like to make zines of the work I’ve created for the month: a four page zine of my sketchbook art, an eight page zine of my line art portraits, and a four page zine of paintings I’ve done that month. I’ve set up a paypal art donation subscription where these zines, along with art postcards, will be rewards.
I also plan on working on my writing more seriously and getting more fiction published. I’ve joined a writers group at Book Suey in Hamtramck and I plan to take more workshops with Writers Workshops Detroit.
Here are my top nine posts on Instagram this year.
I read quite a few books this year. Some I liked more than others but I would recommend all of these.
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Autonomous
Annalee Newitz
Sicily
John Julius Norwich
You Can’t Touch My Hair
Phoebe Robinson
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
James Bridle
Armed in Her Fashion
Kate Heartfield
Abbot
Saladin Ahmed
Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Hilary Mantel
A People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Sharman Apt Russell
Women in the Middle Ages
Frances Gies Joseph Gies
The Witch’s Trinity
Erika Mailman
Sheets
Brenna Thummler
Eartha
Cathy Malkasian
Monet: Itinerant of Light
Salva Rubio and Efa
The Princess Saves Herself in This One
Amanda Lovelace
December 2018
Art
Sketchbook
Here is my sketchbook work for the month. Follow me on Instagram to see process videos of them as well.
Line Art Portraits
Here are my Line Art Portraits for the month.
Check out the one-sheet zines I made of my December Art.
Featured Rebubble Art
I’ve decided to start making merch with my sketchbook art. My shop would quickly get bloated with these abstract patterns if I just kept adding new stuff every month, so these items will only be available in my Redbubble store for 30 days. I’ve posted November art as well which will be available until January 15. I plan to do this with my Line Art portraits too moving forward.