I am always signing up for short courses online - could be printmaking, sketchbooking, just anything at all, some more involved. Every one brings me something simple - and good. Here is what I did in the latest Jessica Swift Art Oasis course offered recently (a one week only freebie with various teachers). A lot of the things were very simple (too simple and perhaps too crafty?) but some were just enough to peak my interest so I did them.
The next ones were just painting a mandala/circle shape while holding a thought or emotion and seeing what colors represented that thought/emotion. I put the words in last.
And then making patterns in waterproof ink/marker inside circles (a small, a medium and a large), cutting out the circles and placing them on colored matboard to make something else. I really like this (and added a watercolor painted one in the blue set). This is a nice way to slow down, stop thinking, just make a repetitive pattern - and see what you have at the end.
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Such a great variety and I love them all, each has its own appeal.
I like to sign up for classes too ... Sometimes I overbook myself! But I agree with you: it's fun and I think I take something from each class.
Thanks, Laura. I love seeing what you’re doing, too. I do seem to be getting into a lot of different classes lately, I think because it does push me a bit to do something when I know, otherwise, I’d just sit and read. Mom is still in the latter stages of her life and her dementia pushes all my buttons at times but I am trying to be more patient with her and more aware that this is just what it is right now. I am reading Ekhart Tolle and his books and videos on YouTube have seemed to calm me and made me less reactive. Someone called him the Yoda of our times :).
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