January Art Updates
Close-up of my most recent piece, Magic Forest, 2026. Colored pencil on paper.
I want an easy way to update my friends and anyone else who is interested in this creative practice. Here are the art updates for January:
I closed the back cover on my second-ever completed sketchbook. And then opened it back up to compare the first and last pages. I would say colored pencils and I have grown a lot together, but they are shrinking, rapidly.
Taking photos of a piece in progress is building my confidence. Small bits of color spread out across a page don’t look like much, the abundance of white space holding my self-doubt. I’ll add more detail the the next day, compare the shots in my photo gallery, and feel like I’m getting somewhere. It’s not a waste of time, it’s not a waste of time.
I have two open projects at the moment: a dinner menu design for my friends’ monthly book/supper club and an 11x13 colored pencil drawing of a canada goose draped over a nude woman. I make a bit of progress on one or both each day. It feels good to be working.
‘Til next time,
Hannah
