if you dip the q-tips in turpentine, they blend smoothly

Too much going on to have quiet art time, so for my sanity, it’s blobs and doodles and colors for me this week 😎😄

@Heidi Stroup thanks for sharing! Love your art.

@Inge Wenker round of applause for calling yourself an artist!

@Lelani Eilers hi! I’m just new to this group as well. How wonderfull that your daughter is such an inspiration.

Hi everyone, Let me introduce myself aswell. Im Rachel from the Netherlands and i just stumbled upon this group at such a convenient time. I started playing around with artsuppllies 2 yrs ago. It has been a surprising force in a still ongoing journey of healing from a lifetime of gritting my teeth through pain and hardship. I never meant to create for others to see or even buy. I just like to play and explore. But life is funny. I got an offer to be introduced to a publisher and maybe illustrate for them. A massive shock. There is a lot to work through before throwing myself outthere. My fear of being seen, fear of losing the joy of playing around… and then there is the reality of living with daily physical limitations and hands that often just hurt too much to paint. Im working on all of it. But it is lonely sometimes. So then i found this group, a lovely group op artsy people… and maybe a space to practise showing up in a season of figuring out what i like and what i want. And to start of boldly, right away, I’ll add some of my work. I love making little books and watercolor-journals, just started on abstract/collage and imaginairy landscapes a few weeks ago…then there is my ongoing project of painting emotions. The lovely, the hard, the pretty- and the ugly-cry, despair and utter joy. To look them all in the eye until i am ok with them. And the thing i always come back to: playfull birds and blobs and colors.