Class List

Linking p with Kim for Friday Finds.
This week I've found out things about me I don't think I want to know but actually it's good to know them. I'm a worse class junkie than I ever thought.
Have I signed up for any new classes for 2014?  Well, let's revisit last years' for a moment.
How about a list of all the online classes I started this year and didn't finish? Along with the others I have access to and barely started? I will make myself a class schedule and attend (somewhat) faithfully.
I have so many that some I hardly even remember buying. A cruise through my paypal account and my filed receipts has turned up a few of those.
It's a good thing they are not tangable. I'd be one of those people that barely have a path through their house.

I actually did finish 7 classes this year and would like to review some of these again. (Yeah! Bravo! I'm giving myself a pat on the back! I seriously thought I had only finished 3.)

1. Photo Art Blends - Cottage Arts (fabulous! if you're artsy)
2. The Art of Journaling - Amanda Taylor (also fabulous! if you're artsy)
3. The Art of Blending - Digital Scrapper
4. Apple iMovie - PPSOP
5. Round Trip - Kim Klassen
6. The Art of Composition - Tracy Clark
7. The Phone Photography Project - Big Picture Classes

Most of these I got past the midway point but when it comes to thinking and writing I usually duck out the back door.

1. Write Now! - Amy Sorensen
2. One Little Word - Ali Edwards (ooops never got past month 3)
3. Time Capsules - Xanthe Berkeley
4. Photoshop Artistry - Sebastian Micheals
5. Beyond Beyond - Kim Klassen
6. Start to Finish - Kim Klassen
7. Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown
8. Chalkboard Art in Illustrator - Carina Gardner
9. Designer's Brush Workshop - Amanda Rockwell
10. Holiday Play - Alisa Burke
11. Ink & Paint - Laura Coyle
12. Awesome Album Design Skills (InDesign)- Photography Concentrate

Udemy Classes:

1. The Art of Black and White Photography
2. Amazing Sunset Photography
3. Adobe Illustrator CS6
4. PSD To HTML
5. Portrait Photography with Simple Gear
6. iPhone Photography Secrets
7. The Absolute Beginners Guide to Flash Photography
8. Snapseed
9. Plus more.....(yes I'm seriously hanging my head now. I've only finished one class, Snapseed, and it was very good.

Creative Live Classes:

1. iPhoneography with Jack Davis
2. Photoshop's Best-Kept Secrets with Colin Smith
3. Quick Retouching in Lightroom, ACR & Back with Jack Davis
4. Special Effects in Lightroom and ACR with Jack Davis
5. Group Panel: Best Practices
6. Intermediate and Advanced Actions with Ben Willmore

3 subscriptions
Craft Daily for mixed media
Kelby Training
NAPP

Older ones I'd like to revisit:
MO-tography - Jessica Sprague
Several Illustrator classes by Carina Gardner
Inky Doodles with Michelle Houghton

I will print this out and hang it on the wall. (I must make it cute tho.)

Have I signed up for any new classes for 2014? Well, of course. This addiction to learning is very hard to break. I have two that start next week. Lens Baby Magic by Kathleen Clemmons and The Art of Photographs by Amanda Taylor.

So if you ever ask what classes I'm taking at the moment I'll just have to send you a link to this post.

Fourteen

I've posted this digital page before but it fits too perfectly for this.

Kim has challenged her followers to make a list of 14 dreams, goals, etc for 2014. I'm having a hard time coming up with 14 but here goes.

I actually did a post a few months back about this so I think I'll cheat and see what all was on my list then.....
Well, that was interesting. In fact this past week as I've gone through and through my iphone edits to make Flipagrams for Instagram I have finally determined my style. So with that new revelation I will be focusing on
1. Learning new apps and focusing more on artistic photos.
2. Have an iPhone Art Show.
3. Redo my blog a bit.
4. Improve and sell my photography.
5. Get a web gallery set up.
6. Get a handle on the dreaded marketing thing.
7. Learn how use all my mixed media supplies.
8. Learn to use my new Lens Baby (class starts this week!)
9. Learn to make good tasting gluten free breads. (No, I'm not allergic, it's just not good for you)
10. Totally cut sugars from our diet.
11. De-clutter the house.
12. Go to Florida and Wisconcin/Michigan.
13. Rediscover the innocence and vitality of youth through my grand daughter.
14. Rediscover the deep love of my Savior.

Plans

One thing I found this week was a great little art supply store in Fort Worth TX called Ansel Art Supply. I've been slowly collecting supplies because 'she thinks she wants to do mixed media'. Now that I've signed up for Brene Brown's class I guess I will finally make myself do it. (And my Gelli Plate arrived in the mail today!!!!!!)

I am taking the most awesome class from Amanda Taylor called the Art of Journaling. I am not a good journal-er. I have a ton of very empty journals. But this was right up my digital alley.
I had a vision for my page. Of course it turned out a little different than planned, but better.
It was also more difficult than I thought to get my text to cooperate in the arrow shapes.
Today I'm working on a typography portrait which is addicting to say the least.

This page displays my 5 goals that I now have down on paper instead of floating around the air. This means they will actually happen, right?

1. Improve and sell my photography.

2. Create tangible mixed media to use in digital design.

3. Learn new methods and improve my digital designing.

4. Have an iPhone Art Show and identify my style for a body of work.

5. Get a handle on the dreaded marketing.

Linking up with Nancy for Random Five Friday and Kim for Friday Finds, and Cindy for Show and Share