Happy New Year

 It is the start of a new year

 and there are so many juicy offerings 

of wonderful free classes online.

I have taken up quite a few of these offers

 and I hope I have not over committed.

I am doing the 365 Project and so are my boys.

It is photographic documentary of your year and my boys have both got cameras now so I am hoping we will all improve our photography skills and the boys will enjoy being part of an online community. I'm not super confident we will all post every day but we will do it as much as we can.

I am also taking  the Strathmore Online Workshops

There are 3 workshops on offer

 and the first one is with the fabulous 

Traci Bautista Doodles Unleashed

It is a 4 week course and I am so excited about this one,

There are 2 other work shops as well

Water color sketching with Cathy Johnson in March

and 

Force Drawing with Michael Mattesi in May

 These images on this page 

are from another course I am doing

at wild precious life with Effy Wild

2012 Book of Days

It is a year long art journaling course,

and I am already inspired.

So far we have altered  our books and 

are searching for our one word for 2012

I have narrowed my choices down to 

AWARE  / AWARENESS

or

CLARITY

I have also decided to play along with Jan Fox

and her 52 Playdates

with weekly prompts for arting.

I don't plan on doing all of these 

but sometimes

 its nice

 to have inspiration delivered right into your inbox!

I am also slowly working my way 

through all the fabulous lessons

in 30 days with Gulfsprite

I love these lessons

 and I love Christy's teaching style and artistic style,

she is so inspirational.

I have recently joined a wonderful ning platform

Flutterbye

with the fabulous and so very generous 

AMy McDonald

So many free groups and lessons,

videos and tutorials .

I am also participating in 2 round robin art journal swaps,

 although I only have 2 more art journals 

to work in for the International  Art Journal Swap.

Oh and Artist Trading Cards's

I will have to be joining in on various ATC swaps 

as I am loving my growing collection of these,

If anyone wants to do a swap with me for ATCs

 please leave me a comment and we can do a trade.

So that should keep me

 artistically motivated throughout the year.

I am going to need my word  

and my book of days to keep me focused.

Bright Blessings for the new year to you.