Creative Endeavors

There are so many things both creative and analytical that interest me. I'm thinking of creative goals now. We'll not mention the things we have to learn and do for the business of living.

Learning art is very high. Mainly just sketching right now because I had a lot of big work related projects to finish and now we are slowly moving from our residence of 35 years to a house that we had to empty and are currently fixing up to make habitable before we move in. Then we'll have to get our current residence ready to sell.

I'm proud that I was able to finish a 5x7 sketchbook for the Portrait Society Gallery. I really enjoyed sketching and learned a lot about pencils and markers.They haven't scheduled when the show is yet.

• http://katsmishmash.blogspot.com/2019/03/5x7-sketchbook-markers-colored-pencils_28.html
• http://katsmishmash.blogspot.com/2019/03/5x7-sketchbook-markers-colored-pencils.html
• http://katsmishmash.blogspot.com/2019/03/5x7-sketches-colored-pencil-tombow.html
• http://katsmishmash.blogspot.com/2019/03/5x7-psg-sketchbook-pages-224-22819.html
• http://katsmishmash.blogspot.com/2019/02/5x7-psg-sketchbook-pages.html

Other than that, I don't have any finished paintings for Milwaukee Sketch Club show and Martini Girls Show because I haven't been painting.

I restarted a second creative endeavor with languages after listening to the language mastery podcasts while recovering from a sprained back that extends into my left hip. I was forced to do a lot of laying around in between working slowly and painfully. So I started using duolingo for Spanish, French, and Polish. I want to improve my Spanish (because everyone speaks it) along with maintaining and slowly improving French (learned to read it in high school but not pronounce and speak it) and Polish (that a lot of people speak.) I'm just using duolingo because it's super convenient.

However my main language learning focus this year is Norwegian because I'd like to visit the Scandinavian countries. So I am listening to you tube videos of the alphabet and how to pronounce Norwegian. I'm also slowly working with Memrise. I'd like to make a minimal pair list of sounds that I have trouble telling apart. Fluent Forever does not have that for Norwegian yet. So I have to do that the old fashioned way.

Future languages I'd like to learn are ESL, Slovak, Italian, German, and Chinese.

Third creative endeavor once we move is to learn how to play bass guitar so I can jam with my husband and brother-in-law. I will need to build up callouses on my fingers. I will also wear earplugs because they play way too loud for me. We plan to make the family room our music room at our new house. Of course I'd like to get back into playing fiddle, viola, and piano just for fun. I'd really like to learn how to play accordion for the in-law's family reunion.

Other than writing on this blog probably won't do much writing.