I think I don’t draw much (particularly people!) because I get fixated on whether or not it looks “right.” Whereas with my digital collage and mixed media collage work I’m better able to just let things happen and have fun and enjoy the process. I think that’s why I don’t really do printmaking anymore. I double-majored in Painting and Printmaking, but I think I found both mediums individually kind of frustrating. Printmaking is difficult to do in that kind of go with the flow, see what happens, change course midstream kind of way. It requires planning, sketching things out, having more than a vague idea in advance…which just doesn’t work that well for me. The dread Inner Perfectionist starts screaming and it’s all downhill from there. (Also why although I am ABLE to draw and paint in a realistic manner I hardly ever do so).

I actually recently gave away all my wood/linoleum carving tools to a coworker who said he used to like to do woodblock printing. It felt kind of nice to admit that I’m most likely not going to do that particular medium ever again. I even bought a few new linoleum blocks and ink a few years ago, but it just never happened. And that’s ok.  It feels better to have those things in the hands of someone who might actually use them than taking up space in my (tiny) studio, a reminder of yet another project I never got around to.

Here’s today’s- drawn on the train ride home.

A doodle from a meeting. Contrary to popular belief, I’ve always felt that doodling helps me to concentrate, rather than being a sign of distraction. I was happy to hear recently that science has proven my intuitive claim correct!