Hello and a warm welcome, thanks for stopping by the blog. I want to tell you something about the 100 day scribble project. It started on our group with Jessica Swift we are on day 63 now. If you have been following along you know it’s about moving energy and doing whatever mark you want to make. I have been producing whatever comes out on that particular moment. It has truly loosened me up. In my art journey I have always had the feeling that if I’m going to create it has to be something meaningful or something that is really a perfect……yes that’s what you heard. Not perfect in the sense of a perfectionist (although I do have those tendencies) as well as when I first got married I would come home and ask my husband (we had three children) why he moved the pillows?? Yes I was 21 and obviously had serious OCD. I knew it! It was something I would work through in counseling and still continue today. So in essence I couldn’t make art unless it was going to be a perfect piece of art. Yes even if someone else thought it was not perfect in my mind it was. So I couldn’t practice or as one of my favorite writers says Make Shitty Art!
Art Even if you or someone believes that you can’t make shitty art! I doodled all my life. On everything from a grocery list to a contract. Yep you might see a very important paper with one of my doodles. I seriously will not even notice I’m doing it but if I have a pen and paper that’s what’s happening. Well I could of not just put it in a journal it was on yellow sticky notes, lined paper etc. it never went into a book. Well when Jessica said about the scribble project it just opened a world to me…. JUST MAKE SOMETHING!!! So I started the scribble and it was freeing just letting go. I was it first just making marks then it went into a more detailed creation which I understand it wasn’t just a scribble anymore. The idea is I was letting go and making something if it wasn’t so called perfect anymore. I was enjoying the process and not expecting anything. No JUDGEMENT!! Enjoy the journey and whatever comes out it’s out. It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks or says as long as I enjoy it, that’s the idea.
Here I am on day 63 still making these paintings or drawings or whatever one calls it. It makes me happy and filled with joy.
The tree above 👆🏻 is just a watercolor painting that came out and I love it!!! On Day 57 I had to switch to a new journal as I finished the dog chewed up and water spilt on the journal sketchbook. Yay! A new journal to start. This picture right below in the cadmium red light. 😊 it’s on my journal shelf now.
A North Carolina From Mountains to Sea. You know I am missing NC right now. Not to mention we have went through 39 inches of snow during this 10 days with still huge amounts still left out there but at least yesterday I did get a walk in. It was lovely. I added more books to my little free library and it felt good to be back outside.
This one I just wanted to share all the energy I am feeling right now. Just one of the girls I like to draw from my brain.
This was just made from the inks I had on the angel fish below. 👇🏼 It’s called Artistic Rorschach Ink bots. Andy Warhol is one of the artists that has these kinds of paintings. Look in the painting and see what you see.
This was an angel fish that came out from the ink I cleaned up that leaked out.
It was St. Patrick’s Day
Highlighters and mushrooms of course
Just another girl I paint
Just playing
This one I love I used gouache paints. So you see if I worry about making it perfect as I was basically taught to be. I wouldn’t have these paintings nor would I have the muscle memory of making something. It feeds my artist soul. It keeps my hand moving and my brain learning. Plus it’s FUN! So be free and just let the art flow. No matter if it’s just a few marks or a full day of painting. Mush love, 🍄🟫Dawn Gallop
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