Morning Page October 10

Except this was an evening page…and I’m shaking things up - gasp - changing out ink for graphite.

It was a busy day getting back to life and I still felt jet lagged. So I sat down early on the sofa and started watching Cruella (based on my daughter’s advice).

And I intended to just doodle and I was going to just sketch lightly in pencil before ink - but then I remember how fun it is to shade in pencil so I decided to just go for it. Nothing too exciting. Just fun.

Morning Page October 9

Today I devoured half of Lisa Miller’s book, The Awakened Brain (h/t Andy, Creative Peptalk podcast #525 after meeting with the Wilder practice group* and doing some journaling…and this felt kind of like a download. Like something I’ve been traveling towards for quite a while. I feel ready to live into the connected, spiritual being I know I am.

Obviously, this wasn’t a morning page, but an evening page. First day back from traveling and it was a jet lag dayI hope to read the read rest of the book today.

Morning Pages Oct 7-8

I was on and off airplanes Tuesday and Wednesday (the 7th and 8th) so I had plenty of time to draw—but little time to post. So here I am. Home—and belatedly posting.

Fall is full of long shadows and as it turns out as I tried to quickly draw a self portrait, my face is full of shadows too, and I think as this image suggests so was my heart. There was nothing wrong with the flights, really. The first plane was delayed on Tuesday, which caused me to pivot and book another flight Wednesday morning and spend the night in Charlotte. And I’m glad I did as I was exhausted by the time I got to the hotel after 8pm. So I think I was just tired.

I had much more energy at 7am in the airport when I came up with the idea to draw a grid of airplanes. So I quickly snapped a few pics out the window and also did a quick image search and made a few more screenshots of airplanes. That made for a nice time drawing frin reference photos while watching a movie in flight—so that was nice. One reason I chose to draw airplanes is because I really don’t feel like I can draw them from my imagination so hopefully this little exercise gave me some brain references for future drawing. If I want to draw airplanes again.

It’s good to be home. I have the house—and the cats—to myself for a few days. The solitude is nice.