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[Watercolour] 1/52 Weeks of Art

I wanted 2025 to be the year that I actually USED my sketchbooks, instead of just collected them – so I started a few challenges. One of the ones I started is 52 weeks of art, at least one watercolour painting a week. I wrote out prompts for this challenge, and the first one is pictured above: salad.

I’m hoping that by creating intentional art time, I actually get better at my craft and since I’m not very familiar with watercolour paint, I want to get better at that, too. Whether I get better or not, I’m having a lot of fun and it feels very nice to be creating.

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[Life] Happy New Year!

I hope everyone survived the holidays and are looking forward to the promises that a new year brings! The main goal for this year is to online the shop, which requires me finishing up the product pictures to five more products (hopefully) minimum. I’m hoping to have the shop open February 1st. The selection of items for sale will be limited to prints (for now) and then as I get more comfortable with things I’ll expand to other products. Maybe. I’m hoping this serves as motivation and inspiration to keep creating, even if I don’t sell anything.

In other news, I’m looking for some waterproof ink. The two that I own (pictured above, Waterman and Noodler’s Ink) are NOT waterproof. I’m not sure why everyone keeps telling me Noodler’s Ink is, this one most certainly is not, I wet a little bit of my writing and it smudged all over the place. I own 2 (soon to be 3) fountain pens, and I’d really like to be able to sketch with my pen, but I also want to be able to apply watercolour paint over top. The search continues.