End of Month Wrap – June

Happy New (Financial) Year’s Eve to all my Antipodean folk.

It’s half way through the calendar year so it’s time for the end of the month wrap and a little look forward both for the next six months and into next year. Side note: a couple I know celebrate their birthdays on June 30 and December 31.

At the end of May I knew June was going to be a creative write off with the amount of school marking coming up. Despite that black hole of creative suck that sucks worse than any sucking machine invented could ever suck, there were some good things that happened this month.

Here’s a list

ART
created and sold 2 versions a continuous line drawing, Backflip/I’m Falling (image below)
created and sold 2 continuous line drawings of flowers with bees (images below)
created and sold Grass Tree Continuous Line Drawing (image below)
created Flight (pointillism image below – for sale $40)
created Arum (pointillism image below – for sale $40)
in a moment of complete silliness, I drew myself as Bert from Mary Poppins in the style of a Power Puff Girl (see below for the silliness)
WRITING
wrote two dodgy prose poems: Things to do While Sitting With Doubt and Things to do While Sitting With Fear. They form a triptych with Things to do While Sitting With Grief (which I realised I haven’t posted here. Will rectify that in the coming days)
I had a story acceptance for ZineWest. The Sound of Water will be released in October.
Subbed a past story for a reprint option
attended an In Conversation evening with poet Dr Willo Drummond whose debut collection, Moon Wrasse, I did the illlustrations for.

There was certainly less writing than what I would have liked but I knew that it was going to be very difficult to have the headspace to write so I used small pockets of time to create art.

What will July look like?

During the holiday break I will be working on some short pieces for upcoming deadlines, then looking at future deadlines to see what I will work on. I know the next school term is also a creative graveyard with the amount of marking but I am hoping to carve out time for small, achievable projects.