Reading: I haven’t posted books in a while but I have been reading. Radiant Rebellion by @heychookooloonks coming in a few months is around reclaiming aging. I am not a worrier over aging so I wasn’t sure I should request this book but I have read books by and taken classes from Karen before and I knew there would be wisdom here I’d appreciate. And I was right.
This book is full of stories, wisdom, insight, and practical steps you can take. But what I appreciate the most is how much Karen encourages you to go within and to be intentional with your life. She had great journaling questions to help the reader do her own exploration.
Lettering: I pulled out the granulated watercolors for this one and just had fun. It’s not the way I had in my head but in honor of the quote itself, I decided not to aim for perfection.
Painting: I read about the #pantonechallenge2020 a few weeks ago and ordered myself the set of postcards and a set of acrylic gouache and they finally arrived yesterday so I had some fun today. I loved how fun this was.
Lettering: a wonderful quote by pema chodron. Let the hard things in life break you. I had to get creative with this one and removed one sentence so it could fit. Love all the colors and love the sentiment.
Watercoloring: really overworked this one, partly due to power loss partly due to not ever getting it to where I wanted but it’s practice and I learned and it was joyful as @thiswritingdesk would say that’s the best part!
Sketching: here’s my bookstore from yesterday. Still using Pinterest for inspiration and am so grateful for other artists I can emulate. We lost power as I was drawing this so finished it in low light.
Lettering: yesterday’s @lizelayne #sidebyside2023 lesson centered around a story that involves violets and had this wonderful quote so I decided to draw some violets and write it out.
