penance with the paint gods.

What in the world am I loving this week?

• The color red.
• Girly Times. Getting some starbucks & then a manicure/pedicure with my bff. Perfect. Also: my nails are a pretty shade of red. Already smudged & chipped but that’s ok!
• My magic bag that somehow manages to fit everything I need it to without becoming a massive blob. Makes me feel a bit like Mary Poppins.
• New inspiration and ideas that have been pumping in my brain. It makes me excited!
• My awesome and cozy electric throw, a supreme giftmas present from my mum. Bonus: it’s a cat magnet!
• Picking up the paintbrush again—acrylics for now. But I am sensing that I’m gathering courage to approach oils again sometime this year. I’ve been working my way back to fine art. I sort of abandoned it when I graduated college in 2005 in favor of graphic design & Being an Adult & Getting a Job. I love design. But I also love art. (I do think these two things overlap; they’re certainly not mutually exclusive but that’s a whole other post!) So I started sketching again with more seriousness. Then watercolors. Now I’m introducing acrylics again into my repetoire. Gouache may be next (even though I despised it in school). Eventually: oils. Basically: I’m making penance with the paint gods.