This spread took days and days of morning time in my Very Visual Art Journal. Pure joy and peace!

My Moleskine 365 project continues! After a full quarter of the year doing these daily pages, I’ve hit a good rhythm of working on two pages spreads over two days at a time AND after four spreads, I’m scanning and documenting the work here and on instagram. To keep my digital files organized, I’m grouping each set of 8 pages as week 1, 2, 3, 4 of the month (weeks 1 and 5 go with the month they start out in). Anywa, so this group is April Week 2.

Notes:

Have I mentioned how much I enjoy the process of collage? Just letting my subconscious choose images and then again, with as little conscious thought as possible, creating a composition? And yet? There’s some sense to be made (if you look, you will see it). Spreads top left and bottom left please me very much.

What’s interesting is that

With these four spreads, I’ve completed all the pages in my Moleskine 365 Daily Diary for the first quarter of the year. It was a busy week so most of the pages didn’t take a lot of time, but one big permission slip I’ve given myself for this project is that all I have to do is create something—anything—for every page.

One big surprise for this project so far is how many pages I end up really enjoying when I think it’s just going to be a knock off day. Also, I’m shifting to working on two page spreads every two days instead of single pages every day which makes for good rhythm.

A few notes

Top Left spread: all collage save for the ink rectangles on the left going off the page. Earlier pages show behind this spread because I collaged the cat right over the open spine without leaving enough room for the bend. Oh well!

Top Right spread: Okay, I love the dog and the cat. Gotta do more of this kind of work!

Bottom Left

I’ve landed on three ongoing projects for 2024 that I’m just now ready to articulate and formalize here. Each scratches a different creative itch, and each is sustainably structured to avoid some of the past pitfalls of my long term protects.

I want to share progress as I go here on the Studio (b) Log, so I’m outlining them all here to document the beginning and as reference for what each is all about.

• 365 Day Moleskine - Anything a Day

• Monthly Iterations Studies

• True Art Journal

I did worry BTW that maybe three ongoing projects might be too ambitious, but it turns out it’s not too much at all. I don’t work on all three projects every day and really, all but the final works I hope to create from the studies (see below) take small segments of time and my expectations are kept low. All I really ask of myself is that I pay attention to what give me joy—and do as much of that as I can.

Okay - so the three projects:

365-Day Moleskine