March 2026 Art Practice — and what happened in February

Okay! So March is here and I’m ready to go with my art practice intentions for the month. Here’s the cover page in my I made in my sketchbook and post on the front of my personal website, too..

And here’ are the January and February cover pages for reference.

I opened the year with a lot of experimentation. I’ve made daily art practice a cornerstone of my life for years now, but I was at a place where I didn’t really know what I wanted to make anymore, and didn’t know what I wanted my art practice to look like.

I’ve been in this place for a while. I’m totally committed to creating art—I love it! But…I’ve been feeling at loss for what, exactly, I want to make. So in January and February I focused on experimenting as a way to find out.

It turns out that what became the greatest focus of these two months was variations of illustrating my life in my sketchbook. And it was the February Weeknotes practice, particularly, where I learned something very important about my creative preferences: documenting my life doesn’t hold my attention. It’s not what I’m interested in spending my creative time doing. What I loved doing Weeknotes was simply the drawing and painting.

Okay, so not so much a discovery and a remembering. Oh yes. I really do love to draw and paint, especially in a more abstractified style that I want to develop. So that will be my March project. I’m going to draw and paint a series of wonky things in March. Let’s see how many pictures I can paint this month.

As for expressing myself in some daily way, I am also still committed to creating daily pages in my sketchbook—but I won’t be focused on documenting life. Coming to the page each day to create rather than document is a practice that has always served me well on so many levels—it’s where I learn, it’s where I explore and express, it’s where I meet myself where I am, fully present to the range of experiences that flow and float and scream through me onto the page.

And that practice, that daily experience of creating for myself, is enough.

So that’s March: Daily Pages and Painting. Hopefully a lot of it!