While visiting my parents in Cincinnati Mom and I got to do art together. We each did a version of this plant that was out on her deck. I love how you can take the same subject and have such different results – each beautiful expressions from the individuals who created them.
Today I wanted to play around with some new micro pens that I got. The flowers a friend recently gave me proved to be an excellent subject 🙂
I’d been wanting to do more art again but have been feeling out of practice. That lack of practice has been preventing me from doing any art. (Stupid vicious cycle!) Yesterday I said, “Screw it” to the stupid cycle and to being afraid of looking bad. I picked up a permanent black pen (not erasable pencil) and dove right in. Looking at my wooden figure I decided that was as good as anything to draw in my sketchbook. This is what came from it…
What I love about art is that you always get something out of it and you often learn from your work. What I learned from this piece was: