Vanessa’s ‘art your chart’ event this week :)
I missed yesterday but made it to today’s art your chart thingy 🥳
Here’s some pictures of what the one I ended up beginning looks like so far.
As far as I know, it’s not done yet. But we shall see 🙂
One thing I noticed right away when this idea was first being floated - I had no clue if I’d ultimately be into it.
I shared this story towards the end of the zoom today.
Emotional authority knows nothing ‘in the moment’.
n-o-t-h-i-n-g
But the more posts I saw come across my radar, and especially Vanessa’s example posts and peeks at her art marking this and that, I also got to watch my body get out a pad of (watercolor) paper and start sketching out a representation of my bodygraph.
Thanks to an IG artist I bumped into, the centers, gates and channels got marked in water color pencil.
Then a couple days go by - I have to pass it every day. It gets a side eye.
Then on the evening of day 3, I get a wild hair to add some sections (I have a distinct split in my design) that can maybe ‘flesh out’ the image.
This takes another few days of refining the pencil sketching.
And there I stop. That was a few days ago.
I still peeked at it several times most days and wondered what might be coming next.
Didn’t get back to it - until today, when the alarm I set yesterday let me know I had 15 minutes to shift gears and get on this second zoom.
It was a nice hour and some (maybe closer to 2? 🤔🤷🏻♀️) and it was lovely to have company while I proceeded to lay some color into the foundation that I’d unexpectedly prepared (yes, I have an unexpected cross and a 1st line profile 🙃).
And here’s what it’s looking like so far - per usual, I still don’t know what I think of it 🤭
My emotional wave, you may have heard me mention before, I recognize how it skews my ability to actually see my own art right away.
So, it may grow on me, or maybe not.
Tends to be a yeah it usually does anymore, there are exceptions though - usually it’s stuff where I’m trying too hard and thinking I know ANYTHING AT ALL about what direction I’m heading in 😂😂😂
I do know that I want to strengthen the colors on the two sections. And probably continue with some darkening of the background. At least at the edges of the sections.
So they pop.
One of those is maybe going to get a salt or plastic wrap treatment - for some texture.
Maybe. Thinking the outer edges of the background 🤔
Anyhoo - that’s what exists so far.
Appreciation Vanessa for doing the work to get this pulled together. I enjoyed it 🤗
And like I told you on the zoom - I have no doubt that this art only exists thanks to you and your own creative contributions 🙌🏽🥰😘
I love watching/noticing/being able to see ripples like that. I blame my Gates 47 (or something lol) 😂