To do art as often as I can.

So a little mood board of a snippet of a passion I am revisiting in my spare time. My mother is apparently a driving force in getting me out of bed away from YouTube so I do have her to thank for pushing me to do this. I have just been doing little sketches, a painting here and there.

Also just curious about other media I own such as charcoal and soft pastels but I must talk about watercolours. I have always had a love for these mesmerising, translucent yet somehow vibrant in pigment, washes of colour that just effortlessly layered on paper. Watercolours were a big thing in the Victorian Era, with Victoria herself being partial to them herself. When I was younger I had an adorable obsession with the Victorians especially with there fashions, books, art, illustrations, home making, embroidery… you get the picture. 

In my primary school years I loved and relished art and assumed that was sort of my career path or at least a forever hobby of mine, this took a long pause in the mess that was secondary school. Years later, I am 21 years old with some random bougie art supplies I bought on a whim and I have to stay at home. 

Just because I hadn’t done anything or really read anything art wise in about 9/10 years didn’t mean I wasn’t distant from it. I started a collection of botanical literature (stemmed from the Victorian Era obsession) which includes many a painting and sketch which I pore over and tbh get a bit too excited about a botanical painting on vellum done with that egg watercolour technique (check out Gael Sellwood). 

So I now I am just curious to see if I can still have a go at pursuing this other love of mine (that isn’t skincare/makeup) and I really, truly forgot the feeling of doing art, even just my amateur pastel Nigella Damascena, a favourite flower of mine brought me so much happiness I hadn’t experienced in 9/10 years. So this passion must have been “a right time, right place”. 

This renewed passion has alleviated this sort of Yearning or maybe an internal discontent I have been feeling for a while. That need to get something out into a physical form such as my sketchbook now exists, so I plan to nurture it, too find ways to do art as often as I can.