For another few days at least, the days are long and peaceful. Summer holiday-mode is on us … and for me that means time set aside to be creative without needing to rush between activities and appointments.

I have been working small-scale (I don’t have the room inside to work on anything particularly large and it is WAY too hot to go outside). So back to my journal I go. I have been using the gouache paint and prismacolor pencils I was given for Christmas. Nice, very nice. I quite like how they work together as well as on their own. In an effort to keep myself focused on just being creative, I have made an effort to upload each day’s work onto my instagram account each day. So far, so good.

I suspect I will struggle to be creative everyday once work and general life obligations reestablishment themselves. But, for the moment, let the creativity continue!

Here are some of my efforts this last week: