playing around with the gelli plate. this is not my first time botanical printing or gel plating but recently inspired by Laura Horn’s YouTube. A quick way to play before lunch.
creative practice / self compassion
slowly now
the summer is summering.i am sipping lots of hibicus tea and sweeping the floors more than I ever thought possible until I give up and realize I am the only one standing by the broom. it’s peak stone fruit season. I dream of pies, tarts and crumbles but settle for eating plums and peaches cut up and in the kid’s […]
creative practice / tinyhappy / writing
A digital & analog romance
Nope. Not the latest cyborg romance (is that even the correct word) ? Seriously it’s just me playing along with analog things (in my real life) and creating digital art. Tbh it’s actually not something I thought I would be interested in because I like paper. I really like paper. However, it turns out I enjoy figuring out digital paper […]
artjournaling / self compassion / writing
Yourself
Keep yourself For yourself at times Take yourself out and just be without shields Let who you are come back to the earth And fill your bones with your name Again.
creative practice / tinyhappy
More scribbles
I’ve been enjoying just picking this (current) sketchbook up and playing when I get a free moment …usually at night or in the morning…tbh. Anyways, there is about no expectations just helps me keep showing up. It’s good to have a little flow after a bit of a break.
art / memory / writing
Evidence
I keep trying to write this post but everything feels to trite and preachy. I am listening to the some cello music that makes me feel so relaxed…i can’t even believe it. I just finished collecting and putting up my older journals in my archives. It felt so good to go down memory lane and see how my journaling has […]
art / selflove / writing
Showing up, a rambling of sorts
What i want to tell you is that life has been so strange these past six months. Not in a bad way. In a wonderfully hard way. Healing requires a bit of elbow grease and loads of self-compassion. Some days are better than others. Some days, I forget I was ever “sick” and then other days it hangs around my […]
art
Making art, again
Some of these were inspired by the “daily drawing challenge:31 art journal prompts with dawn deVries Sokol” on CreativebugMaterials- sketchbook used denik sketchbook, Holbein gouache, stabilio, sharpie, acrylic inks, American craft stickers, Carson mixed media paper.*Some images (that do not belong to be) are from mindful magazine, anthropology catalog, vogue magazine and Sabrina ward Harrison .