What Were My 2024 Resolutions?

Goal 1: Start An Art Challenge Goal 2: Feature More Artists in my Blog Goal 3: Expand My Shop Goal 4: Tell Everyone How Awesome Animals Are Goal 5: Touch Grass, Seek Inspiration

How Well Did I Do?

Goal 1: Start running an art challenge Success! I've been running #KWPrompts all year, and many of you lovely people have joined me! I get so happy when I see the art you all post. The theme as of this posting is #WinterTime so please join us!

Goal 2: Feature More Artists in my blog Fail. Featuring artists involves me doing a lot research into each individual artist, as well as of #DTIYS versions of their art. It is the most labor-intensive type of article I write & at a certain point this year I had to set it aside.

Goal 3: Improve My Shop Meh? I did get in the habit of updating the shop a little more frequently than I had been, but by no means as often as I should.

Goal 4: Tell Everyone How Awesome Animals Are Success. I do this all the time! But really, fail. This goal was about getting my picture book to the “dummy” stage, with pictures and everything, & I more or less abandoned that project when I got sick.

Goal 5: Touch Grass, Seek Inspiration Success? This was definitely the hardest goal for my agoraphobic ass- I wanted to leave the house & go to more movies, art exhibits, etc. While I ultimately could not afford to do this very much, I did manage to get myself out of the house to walk around outside taking pictures of flowers about once a month. Progress!

Overall: I did really well, until I got COVID in August. Ever since then I've been focused on recovery, & am only back to about 80% with serious bouts of exhaustion & brain fog really getting in the way of everything else. I did not have enough spoons already & COVID just made that worse. For example: I cooked a feast for Solstice on Saturday, which exhausted me so much I sat around in a fog all weekend. It was only on Monday night that I remembered I had to write this for Tuesday. Now instead of watercoloring my Simpsons drawing or inking my “Tomte with a battle axe” I'm trying to write a whole article before bed. Thanks, brain fog! 2025's art goals will be simpler so I can focus on my health.

What Will My 2025 Resolutions Be

Goal 1: Keep running an art challenge I have a brand new idea for an art challenge! It will be the same laid-back, 2 week long prompts, & I have plotted out all 26 challenges of 2025! Check back next week to find out more

Goal 2: Keep This blog simple I enjoy writing about all the arty things I learn. I am definitely going to keep posting here every Tuesday! But in the interest of good spoon allocation I'm going to stick to the more direct, shorter blogs I've been writing for the last few months.

Goal 3: Go For More Art Walks Wandering around my neighborhood taking pictures of cool plants is also health-focused, so it is like a 2 for 1 resolution!

We Take Care Of Us

That's it! The next few years are going to be even harder than the last few. Wear your masks & get your vaccines, friends! You do not want long COVID!

What Do You Think?

What were your resolutions this past year? What do next year's resolutions look like? Mastodon Bluesky

Walking In A Winter Wonderland

Every 2 weeks I post a new art challenge prompt The #KWPrompts is #WinterTime for another week!

For reading all the way to the end, you get a SkiFree reference

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Winter is Magic

It's the last #KWPrompts of 2024! I just had to pick Winter. Why? Because it's been a loooooong year, I'm out of spoons, & I'm interested in finding out just how much mileage I can get from using the white, unpainted paper as snow.

3 ghosts eating marshmallows during a blizzard

Share your winter art with us! Let's spend the next 2 weeks making terrific art Each challenge lasts 2 weeks from the day this post was made. You can submit a new picture every day, work on one picture for 2 weeks, or post pics randomly. This is the most laid-back art challenge on the internet, & that means you have plenty of time to make your art however you want.

Use #KWPrompts #WinterTime & tag me @KarinWanderer so I see it!

Pick your social & post your art! Mastodon Bluesky Cara

All art styles & skill levels are welcome- beginner to expert, renaissance painting to rough sketch! No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed. Have a fantastic day, draw something for my art challenge, see you next week!

Get my art on mugs & vinyl stickers in my Shop!

Donate to support my works & get cool perks on Ko-Fi

Join us for #ArtABCs, the best art challenge on the internet!

Find me

• All pictures posted are my own work.
• All reviews are my own unpaid & unsolicited opinions.