Always making
A snow day to be creative and lazy.
I remember when I first moved back up here I would run into the snow. 17 years later, not so much. My bones hurt and I’m cold. I still think it’s beautiful but I don’t want to be wet. Snow is very wet. I’m less fun then I used to be. 😂😂😂
Winter is still magical. I like seeing other people’s snow men.
Where can you reduce clutter in your life?
First off Galeras, happy new year.
I have an artist mindset. Most of me is cluttered. 😂 I guess I would start with my day bag. This thing is way to heavy.
It feels like my whole life is in the bag sometimes.
It’s a fun time.
I made a promise to myself last year that social media would never have more of me then my website. So if it’s there then it’s here but not vice versa.
I got this idea of captions in photos from an artist I know. She is brilliant.
Just been one of those deep and hard years but it is ending beautifully. As much as it can.
Tools, get it?
So as a painter, my big tools are not those but these.
I say over and over again “clean your tools” to myself at myself. I work with ink and paint and to be honest the ink destroys a lot of my brushes but I still love it.
They are my little babies and I should treat them to a pleasant wash from time to time. It’s a charming moment of the looking glass.
Honestly save your good brushes by washing them less but when I do wash them, do it well.
I have an issue of using half a soap each time I wash all my brushes. They seem to enjoy it.
The main point of all of this is that the big step in being a professional painter is wash your brushes but not to much.
Painter out,
Jaws
Hola Galeras,
I’m good how about you? We did a little walk today and picked up groceries. It’s very foggy today but it has fun qualities. Got home and then ate breakfast and made coffee my favorite way. Nice and slow and beautiful. It’s a simple pleasure but enjoyable.
I’m getting a full image of what my painting going to be. Feels good to reconnect to that heart string.
What’s your favorite cartoon?
Finally a question that gets to the meat and bones of who I am. 😂 no really, I love cartoons more than people.
My favorite is Adventure Time. It’s this weird cartoon about a kid and his dog in a world of magic and monsters. I didn’t love the art style but it grew on me.
It just sparked this idea in my mind of keeping hold of using my imagination. I have made a few random friends from that show. BMO the little Gameboy person is my favorite because they are insane.
We fully support madness here officially.
The songs from this show are life changing.
There is always something going on in the backgrounds.
I have this way about me that I feed off of my inner voice trying to talk me out of things. It mostly is a passive thing but some times I’m enraged by the self doubt. I cut bits of it away to see the problem and try to find solutions either on paper with paint and ink or writing it out. This painting was fighting me and then I spoke with Alec and it came to me.
The engine is parts, so paint it in parts.
I like how it is going now. I was tempted to destroy it and start something else but I’m stubborn.
Sometimes painting in the dark helps me see ways the light can’t show me.
More to come mi Gente.
How do you manage screen time for yourself?
I see myself in the third person after being on my phone too long. Like the universe has given me a tv show about me, staring me and how I did nothing for an hour. 😂😂
Most of the time I’m reading articles and books on my phone or iPad and I still wish I was outside in a chair with a real physical book. It’s all just a balance in a lot of ways.
It’s like being on a boat and only seeing the ocean from a window. You watch the world from your phone while being in the world. I have the same problem with my camera. Being present can be difficult. All you can do is try to be present.
Sometimes it’s all that really matters to me.
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