Out with the old and in with the new

Following on my from last post, here's a round up of blog posts by artists looking back at 2014 and/or looking forward to 2015.  You might find a few tips in these as well!

Head of Janus, Vatican museum, Rome
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Looking backwards

• Alyson Stansfield had a great post - Celebrate Your Year: 2014 Personal Review - for a process of reviewing the year just past 
• Laura Frankstone has a post looking back at 2014 - which includes a reference to my book - see 2014 in the rear-view mirror
• I loved Jarnie Godwin's ( A Sketchbook Squirrel) A Year in Pictures

Facing Both Ways

• Jeanette Jobson (Illustrated Life) came up with a Top 10 of 2014 and a new outlook for 2015. Here's wishing a better New Year to Jeanette whose mother passed away two days before Christmas

I've closed the door on 2014 and am looking forward to a new year full of challenges and opportunities. Health, happiness and creativity is all I wish for you. I know for some it can be difficult to find even one of these and especially all three together at times, but we can still wish for them, can't we?

Looking Forwards

• Alyson Stanfield also has some intensely practical tips for things you should be doing at 2015 dawns - Prepare for 2015: 5 Things to Do Right Now 
• Shevaun Doherty (Botanical Sketches and Other Stories) has a detailed post about Plans, Paintings and Promises 2015 
• Sharon Butler at Two Coats of Paint had a backward and forward facing post Gratitude, Favorites from 2014, Predictions for 2015 on New Year's Day
• Karen Margulis has A Painting Challenge for the New Year 

In years past I would often have big lists of goals....New Year's resolutions. It was overwhelming to keep track of and to know where to begin. I have been able to whittle the list down and this year there is nothing on the list except to Simply Paint.

• Happy New Year by Marc R. Hanson (Painting My Way Through Life) - about finding the potential in you and finding a voice
• Cass Arts has come up with some Inspirational Art Quotes to start 2015
• Rosie Sanders made a big promise - with the first of her daily sketches in 2015 on January 1!

and finally....

there was my post on New Year's Day - which, in case you missed it, I'll reprise here - 7 Tips for a New Start in Art in 2015

If you've got a blog post which could usefully be added in to the above drop me a line via the comments function - just click comments below.