While the moon is dark and the apartment is empty, it’s time to do some mental and physical housekeeping. Dishes, midterm papers, laundry, credit card bills, dust cattle and an appallingly dirty studio floor all demand attention. It’s so easy to let all the little abandoned tasks, crumpled receipts, minor annoyances and unfinished to-do lists pile up—it all seems insignificant but even a ton of feathers is still a TON of feathers! It’s time to finish stubborn work, sweep psychic static out the door, splash around in salt water, light candles, sit down with my sketchbook and regain focus.
My goal for this month is to draw daily. I used to—but somehow the time slipped away from me. I need to let my ideas hatch and crawl around for a while before I commit them to canvas. And I want to draw not only to plan but to regain the joy of the process. Just doodling, scribbling, smushing and shading. I know people who cringe at the idea of leaving ideas unfinished in a sketch journal…It’s a “sketch book” not a “masterpiece book”! I don’t need the work to be elaborate or fully rendered, but done more so as ritual-- done to serve as evidence that my creative juices are alive and well.
Does anyone out there draw daily? Does it help the state of your juices?
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