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This group of imaginary women’s faces was on the back of the flower vase sketch (last image), which I also decided to color in with paint. The date on it was from ten years ago. I remembered to take a ‘before’ pic of the women, but not the flowers! The crayon drawing on the book pages was an art therapy exercise (from this week) about moving from chaos to order, or rather, to Peace within, or from what’s blocking you from growing and expanding, into the freedom to be yourself. Drawing with crayons was comforting, and I enjoyed the textural feeling of them gliding across the smooth surface of the book pages. Keep creating!

Here are a couple recent sketch drawings and two old paintings 🙂

From an online workshop from Sketchbook Revival: “Abstract Rainbows”

Meditative Watercolor loose landscapes and ink pen outlining abstract shapes (Sketchbook Revival)

In-Progress acrylic experiments for practice and relaxation

This last one was from a tutorial from a really cool art class online as part of Sketchbook Revival workshop series last month. 🙂

Head studies I did some years ago from my mom’s original Figure Studies instruction book

face painting sketch study based on a high school pen and ink work by Ruby Neri that she gave me long ago, and I have always kept and admired. Apparently she’s a very famous artist now, which I only just discovered doing a search for her name! I didn’t know her parents were artists, which makes sense, and I am extremely excited to find out how successful she has been. Go Ruby! https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/artist/ruby-neri https://www.instagram.com/rubyroseneri/?hl=en https://www.independenthq.com/features/in-the-studio-with-ruby-neri

sketch doodle with origami paper backdrop

I only just realized there are too many fingers on the right hand. How funny, but also a great reminder to practice hands a lot more.

And what I’m listening to lately (for fun): Philomena Cunk audiobooks. For personal interest I listened to a Ram Dass audiobook and a podcast episode by author and spiritual intuitive teacher Sonia Choquette.

I tried to crop those and cannot figure it out, so I went with rounding the corners, which was extremely easy to do. 😉