Morning Pages Sept. 26-29

We left for Maine on Friday, and while I didn’t post on these days as you can see below I did do my Morning pages, sometimes in the afternoons. This is a 4 day quick recap.

Who knows what time it was when I filled in this grid. Airplane time feels out of time. But it felt good to make it. I want to play with making more little images like these. The more I make the more ideas that come for new images and approaches. Ideally, maybe I can pull some of the fun ones for other projects.

A note on the making: lots of self judgement as I drew and made choices—especially with the rabbit and the cat. i can see now that I can accept the rabbit - he’s kind of cute and he IS what came from my hand. The cat is still an “eh”—but now, afterwards, that’s ok too. It wasn’t so ok while making.

We spent most of Saturday and Sunday walking the city, covering almost 14 miles, so I only had time for some quick in the moment sketching, which was good practice. And as for my self judgement, I have to remind myself that these were minutes-long sketches directly with ink pen. No erasing or embellishing. Sunday’s two sketches of lighthouse and a street are actually quite nice, I think.

This morning I drew a collage of images from photos. I was really taken by the wharf and its building and boats as well as this moment where all the seagulls are perched along the length-wise peak of the building. If I have time soon, I’d like to make a full picture of it. But for now, just a quick nod. I also drew the circular bricks laid out in the middle of a brick lined street. Just a quick capture. Downtown Portland has a lot of brick buildings and uneven brick sidewalks and streets. Sometimes like this one, they used granite, I think. Very difficult to walk on. But picturesque!

We move on today from Portland to Boothbay Harbor.