Creative Director: New Direction Unveiled

To bring you up to speed on the history of my blog, is that I began in March of 2018. I knew nothing about websites and the online market space of showcasing work to grow my reach with my portfolio. The original plan was simply a site to house my portfolio. But as I had just started my Instagram page to create new pieces three times weekly, my portfolio consisted of previously made works of art from art school days in college, 15 years prior, and even high school. I didn’t have a current portfolio. Thus, the piece of creating a blog was suggested, to not only have something to ‘offer’ on this new website that people might click on and read, but to gain practice and experience with small writings, weekly. And weekly it continued and continues to this day, not one week missed. I had made a commitment to myself back in 2018.

I didn’t have a ‘theme’ to my blog, it’s not of a particular niche. I have just been writing. So I think of it as being a little all over the map, very unintentional, but it has allowed me flexibility with what came through each week. This has sometimes bothered me over the years. There is nothing to draw the reader in, nothing to come back to. These musings could have just been my insecurity about it all coming to the surface, as there are definitely a handful that have been reading each week (and I thank you!)

With the initial discussions around upgrading my website last year – which simply began as a desire to open a shop for cards and prints. And then the possibilities of new theme and colour palette and design were also on the table. I began to look closer at my blog. Analyzing how I regarded my blog. Analyzing my habits around it, with writing and my process of what to write each week, the ways in which I might want to change it, and considering ways that I could keep writing and ways to allow it to be sustainable if I were to choose an intention or direction for it. Would I continue to have things to write about? And what habits would I need to change or implement so that I would not be scrambling Tuesday afternoon?

Last week I wrote about that which is unfamiliar is unsafe. Stepping into a new direction and away from my ‘unintentional’ blog has certainly felt unfamiliar. I’ve had resistance from the unknown but a stronger pull from being more intentional. And I am pulling this new direction from something that I have written down daily in my affirmations. Every morning I journal specific affirmations just to ground myself in the right mindset for the day. This affirmation is I Create: Creative Director of my Life.

That’s where we start next week: the Questions – what does this mean and where do we start with being the creative director of our own lives?

Until next week,

Devon