Today’s prompt is simple: take a snapshot of your creative space right now—messy, tidy, in-progress, or freshly cleaned. Whether it’s a studio, kitchen table, or even the couch, we’d love to see where your magic happens. 🌿🎨💻 📸 Drop your photo below and tell us: what’s on your desk today? Here's Mine: mess and all~ also a wip snippet~ I've scrapped the background twice now 😅

Today I did some island work with some oil pastels and I think Im getting the clouds down. This time was my first time actually taking my time looking and analyzing color and making patterns. I did mess up on some of the highlighting and shadowing on the mountains but I think I saved it. Im getting more confident on clouds and now I think I just need practice on creating textures.

I started the lesson 2 for Art Foundations yesterday and had fun practicing these. I’m definitely more familiar with pens and I think it shows. Yesterday was practicing lines and shapes. Since I normally practice these as a drawing itself rather than the warm up may be why I’m so used to it. The shapes practice I drew the ones that immediately came to mind. I had the most fun cutting out shapes and gluing them together. I had no patterned paper close to me so I ended up using notepads I had laying around. It was honestly relaxing doing this portion of lesson 2, but that could be because it’s been a long time doing any art. 😓

I’m not super loving this piece (it’s not done and needs some cleaning up) but it’s not awful for my first time back at it in over a year. This particular lump I used-Not the white lump in the picture, but the gray- is super hard and sort of difficult to work with. Not sure how the finished product will look but it’s a start. It was really difficult to do while managing babies. They very much need full attention for the most part, we aren’t quite at a place of independent play or even parallel play yet. I also chose one of the more complex designs I had in my head, so that made it extra challenging! Yesterday set the baseline for expectations and today I will try again with a new design and new clay with a fresh understanding how to manage babies and creating! The pictures included are of my workspace, my piece in progress and closer to finished as well as some thumbnail doodles on mail envelopes.

I realized I forgot to post the last part of this lesson I did before! Other work parts have been busy. Once again no reference pictures. I’m going to attempt to re-do this lesson in ballpoint pen or liner pens since I’m more used to that than the mechanical pencil I was using. I wonder if anything is going to be different! I felt the upside down practice was much easier than the first two I think because I could look at the reference. I need to work more on my shading with pencils, but it’s a good starting point.