An Artist's Typical Week?

Although an artist's week often isn't predictable, here is one recent week's schedule. 

Sunday:

• Schedule art making for the week. 

Monday:

• Sew 2 'mugrugs' for an upcoming Bird Festival (donation). Not having sewn one for awhile, yes it took me most of the day. 

Tuesday:

• Package 'mugrugs' and contact Bird Festival committee member. 
• Sew 4 mini textile cards.
• Start sewing regular sized textile cards, then the power went out due to a wind storm. 

Wednesday:  

• Heard one of my textile cards was purchased as a gift going to England! An artist often doesn't know who purchases their art but it is delightful when they do. 
•  Sew 12 bird cards.
•  Post about bird art to social media. Bird art Post

Thursday: 

• Sew 2 more bird cards and 8 floral cards.
• Shoot a video of thread sketching.
• Assemble picture mat materials.
• Attend a lesson on mat cutting in the afternoon.
• Shop at the Second Hand Store for a steamer to set in a large pot for silk painting steam setting. Purchased 4 decorative gold wire plate holders to use for displaying textile cards for sale.

Friday: 

• Sew 11 landscape cards.
• Edit and post social media video of textile sketching. Reel of Thread Sketching
• Practice mat cutting on my own mat cutter. 

Saturday: 

• Sew one more landscape card to make 2 dozen competed this week.
• Clean studio table of sewing machine and textile cards.
• Frame 2 watercolour paintings. Unframe one of them twice, once for a fleck and once to re-center the mat. 
• Write out framing directions learnt on Thursday.
• Put away mat cutter, mat pieces, frame pieces and hardware.

        

An artist's life is so much more than creating art.