Week 04 Friday Task: Extended Artist's Date

[rejectionchallenge]

Plan an extended artist's date – either a whole day or half a day, depending on your time and obligations. If you can make this happen this weekend, great! If not, plan for as soon as possible.

If you can't manage an extended date within the next couple of weeks, could you do two smaller dates in the same weekend? Take some time to think about the things you'd like to do.

Use this space to discuss your experience of artist's dates so far, if you like. What have you been doing and planning?

Did you do your morning pages today?

Comments

[rejectionchallenge]

I like the artist's date thing a lot, though it's hard to say how much it's actually had an effect beyond "Well, that was a nice hour." It's a good way to trick myself into doing fun things. So far, I've gone to the arboretum, hung out in the periodicals section of the library, and visited a clothing / hipster stationary store. I like clothes on other people, but shopping for clothes is a huge anxiety pit for me, so I just went to the store and looked at some nice clothes without any expectation of buying or trying them on. It was fun and I didn't feel terrible after. I'm probably going to declare "getting a haircut" my artist's date for this week. It's sort of cheating because I wanted to get a haircut anyway, but *shrug* I've been busy.

[ljwrites]

That's pretty much how I feel about my artist's dates. The change of pace is nice, too. So far I've caught up on TV episodes, practiced drawing, gone to the movies on the spur of the moment to see whatever was playing. Tomorrow I think I'll make it two dates as you suggest by going biking and then drawing some more. Maybe I'll carry my sketchpad and draw by the river.

Doing your hair can be artistic! As long as you're making it a date why not be more adventurous than usual, maybe try a style you've wanted but didn't think you could pull off, maybe participate in the process by giving a lot of input to your hairdresser?

[rejectionchallenge]

I actually will be more adventurous than usual, because I'm planning to have my hair dyed for the first time! We'll see if I love it or hate it. If I hate it, at least I'll know now.

[perfectworry]

I think "a good way to trick myself into doing fun things" is the essence of the artist date. I've gone to hair appointments or clothing shopping as an artist's date when I knew I needed those things but didn't feel like I could justify the expense. (It's not that I couldn't afford it. I'm just stingy with myself.)