{"id":3412,"date":"2021-09-06T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annran.com\/website\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2021-09-06T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:19:00","slug":"what-was-i-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/what-was-i-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was I Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

… also … What Have I Gotten Myself Into?<\/em>
Ages ago, I created a blog on the Blogger platform and posted pretty regularly for a few years. I later joined Facebook and put more of my time into posting updates, works in progress, and random thoughts on my business page<\/a> there. More recently, I decided to pull back from Facebook and put that type of content on my web site. You can read about that in my “Pivoting<\/a>” post.

Over the past couple months, I’ve copied content from the Blogger posts and re-created them here, with the original dates, to preserve the timeline. I’ve focused on more recent posts or those that were pertinent to my current work and thought process.

Today, I moved another post, which also involves updating links from pages of this site to link to the new post here – not difficult, but I have to be methodical about it. THEN I made the mistake of scrolling back to see how many blog posts I had made on Blogger. This is where the “What Was I Thinking?”<\/em> part kicks in. It was unsettling because that’s when I discovered posts went back to 2006. I ran away from Blogger to preserve my sanity and came here to post.

Now I’m contemplating what to do next: there’s no point in transferring some posts. They relate to events that are so far past, it doesn’t matter. But I do have to decide which posts are worth moving, from an “Ann’s growth chart” standpoint, and I think that is worth doing. For now, I’m going to take a break, post some art (because an art blog NEEDS art in the posts!), and go work on another drawing.


This is a 2″ x 2″ scratchboard drawing of a kitten. Click here<\/a> to watch the 30-second reel I created on Instagram. You’ll see the all-scratched version just prior to adding color (watercolor), the final version (as seen above), and how I framed it.|

My current commission is this 6″ x 10″ portrait of Cassie & Bella. At this point, it’s ready for more scratching, which I’ve been doing, but I won’t scan that stage until I finish the entire pass of scratching.




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