So It Begins...
After many years of attending business school and working 9 to 5, I have finally rediscovered my creativity.
I had lots of hobbies when I was little (and I mean LOTS!). One of them was cartooning - I especially enjoyed drawing Garfield and Odie. I've tried a few times over the years to begin drawing again but I found that it took me forever to get things "just so" - I was always overthinking things.
Then my designer friend asked me to join her at some life drawing classes. She wanted to improve her sketching skills and I like trying new things so I thought, "why not?" First lesson learned at the very first class - perfection was not going to be achieved. In our first set of one minute rapid sketches, I only managed to draw a torso, some legs, and a circle for a head. I knew I had to speed things up. Eventually, my sketches looked like this (not a one minute sketch though!):
Soon I filled my sketchbook that I had started in 2000 and I felt so accomplished. However, after an entire summer of attending weekly drop-in classes, I knew that life drawing wasn't really my thing so I put down my pencils and concentrated on my career.
In January of this year, I joined a Habitat for Humanity trip to Chile and I was so inspired by everything I experienced there. This prompted me to start making jewellery (a passion from my early teens) and open a little Etsy shop. The whole creative process, along with browsing all the other amazing Etsy shops, really kickstarted the right side of my brain again. There are so many things I want to do, so many things yet to learn.
My mother used to paint and perhaps that's where the seed was planted. However, I've always been daunted by the idea. Being used to sketching in pencil, paint seemed so much more permanent. One of my other good friends thought it would be fun to create a couple of paintings together. It was such a relaxing process and the end product turned out well so I recently bought some paints of my own. I've had them for a week or two now but I haven't picked up a paint brush except to put some on my face for some creative photos of myself.
Things changed this weekend. Deeply inspired by a variety of sources, I wanted a set of my own beautiful paintings. As a result, I dreamed up a group of Courageous Creatures. These adorable creatures remind me of what it means to have the courage to confront your fears and try something new. They are hand painted in acrylics with a lot of care and love.
I had lots of hobbies when I was little (and I mean LOTS!). One of them was cartooning - I especially enjoyed drawing Garfield and Odie. I've tried a few times over the years to begin drawing again but I found that it took me forever to get things "just so" - I was always overthinking things.
Then my designer friend asked me to join her at some life drawing classes. She wanted to improve her sketching skills and I like trying new things so I thought, "why not?" First lesson learned at the very first class - perfection was not going to be achieved. In our first set of one minute rapid sketches, I only managed to draw a torso, some legs, and a circle for a head. I knew I had to speed things up. Eventually, my sketches looked like this (not a one minute sketch though!):
Soon I filled my sketchbook that I had started in 2000 and I felt so accomplished. However, after an entire summer of attending weekly drop-in classes, I knew that life drawing wasn't really my thing so I put down my pencils and concentrated on my career.
In January of this year, I joined a Habitat for Humanity trip to Chile and I was so inspired by everything I experienced there. This prompted me to start making jewellery (a passion from my early teens) and open a little Etsy shop. The whole creative process, along with browsing all the other amazing Etsy shops, really kickstarted the right side of my brain again. There are so many things I want to do, so many things yet to learn.
My mother used to paint and perhaps that's where the seed was planted. However, I've always been daunted by the idea. Being used to sketching in pencil, paint seemed so much more permanent. One of my other good friends thought it would be fun to create a couple of paintings together. It was such a relaxing process and the end product turned out well so I recently bought some paints of my own. I've had them for a week or two now but I haven't picked up a paint brush except to put some on my face for some creative photos of myself.
Things changed this weekend. Deeply inspired by a variety of sources, I wanted a set of my own beautiful paintings. As a result, I dreamed up a group of Courageous Creatures. These adorable creatures remind me of what it means to have the courage to confront your fears and try something new. They are hand painted in acrylics with a lot of care and love.
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