Sketching and can start today

Hello Good Peoples!

Hope that your year is off to a great start. My heart has been so full thinking of friends and family and just the whole area of California. This is painful to watch and see. Sending up prayers and sending positive vibes for healing of hearts and souls.

One of the ways I get to unload is through sketching in my sketchbook. It is a place of healing and exploration like none other. I use to hate sketching. I know it's a strong word, (HATE), but I really did. I figured if I couldn't make beautiful art in them or fill them up what was the use of working in one?

Years later and amost 20 finished sketchbooks in, I LOVE and ADORE Sketching!! Teeheee who knew?

Seriously I collect them. Make them. Share them. Learn from them. Buy them for friends and family and even take classes online to learn more about how to work in them and try new ideas.

I want to encourage you all to start sketching if you can and are willing. It's not about showing it off to other people or even comparing yourself to other artist. It's about you making your own way and your own marks and see where they takes you.

It can be meditative and healing in so many ways. My daddy, at 84, just picked up a sketchbook and stated filling it up with things that he finds around the house. Tears filled my eyes when he showed me his sketchbooks. Yeah, sketchbooks! He has a few now. So, in closing. You are never to old or too young to start. Making a sketchbook can be your safe space to vent and create. Or just a private space to brain dump and explore. It can take you anywhere you want to go. Try it. You just might fall in love with it like me.

Have a good and safe one!