So drawing………….
It still feels a little bit nuts. My life has a lot that needs to be done. Drawing is, on the surface, quite a frivolous thing to do.
I have many art heroines and heroes for whom drawing was a wonderful and relied upon tool. This challenge is helping me feel like I to, am an artist.
Sitting down to draw everyday, is somehow elevating my art to an “important” place in my life, it feels good.
There are days when it is late at night, I just want to go to bed,drawing is tired. Most often, the drawing takes me out of the noise in my head, I am restored and relaxed afterwards.
I feel more confident to play and experiment in my paintings. To be a little bit crazy and push past my comfort zone. I feel less like any of it will be the end of the world. All this play counts towards building my skills.
The paintings come a little easier and the ideas are tripping over each other to be realized.
Life is always demanding but the tough patch of the last few months is easing. I have a little more life to give my art.
I feel excited and very proud about how this challenge is unfolding. Certainly it is making me pay more attention and try more consistently. Putting my drawings out publicly provides this huge motivation to improve. I return to my books and keep trying always, to make better pictures, that resonate. Especially since I seem to keep returning to the same subjects over and over. I feel if I can unlock a self-portrait that everyone thinks looks like me, I will have hit the jackpot!
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