I have been trying to be on vacation and not work, but it’s hard, in part because if I don’t make something creative regularly, I tend to get cranky. Took an hour today to experiment with watercolors — I watched some YouTube tutorials and tried doing branches and stems mostly, with watercolor pencils, watercolor brushes, […]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about why I find myself eager to go make art, and reluctant to start writing. (It’s the starting that’s the problem — once I start, I’m usually fine and happy.) I think a lot of it has to do with anxiety, but also with the idea of being a professional.
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While I was working on my tree and dragon drawing last night, Kavi was working on a watercolor for her homework (her teacher allows drawn responses for her English journal, which I love). She’s reading There Are No Children Here. We had Gilmore Girls on in the background and made art together from about 9:30
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Added a tree to my dragon drawing. I like it. Feel like I’m slowly figuring out my drawing style. (Just noticed that I missed coloring in a leaf, but you get the idea….)
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I thought this was very cool. Kavi is obsessively playing a new game, called “Among Us,” and that little figure in the first photo is her character in the game. She decided to draw a human-shaped version, and I LOVE it. I told her she should write a story about that character, but she just
