Gratitude and Creativity: Drawing In Nature

Sometimes I’m lucky enough to spend time in the middle of nature doing one of my favourite things.

I love drawing lines. I’ve shared many posts where I talk about the meditative quality of opening a clean page in my sketchbook and simply drawing lines. I can get lost for hours as I fill a page with line drawings and doodles.

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It’s A String Thing 289 to 297: Mid-Summer Catch Up

I’ve been participating in Adele Bruno’s weekly ‘It’s As String Thing’ challenges that she hosts on her website Tickled to Tangle, for a few months now.

However, I’ve been lax in sharing the tiles that I’ve completed for the weekly challenges since the spring. The last time I shared one of my tiles was almost 10 challenges ago. That was challenge 288 where Adele chose patterns for us to use that resembled spring flowers.

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It’s A String Thing 288: Floral Bright

After looking at the elements of the weekly ‘It’s A String Thing’ challenge that Adele Bruno chooses, it usually takes a little time to decide what I’m going to do with them. For challenge 288, it took a few days for me to figure out where to start within the string (guideline) that Adele gave us. Continue reading