Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
"Your cards are beautiful, do people still send cards?" "I'd buy your cards, but I don't know who I'd send them too." These statements do two things, they validate some sort of guilt for the person saying them and they sting the recipient. The sayer is very often the same person who would be delighted to get something other than junk and bills in their mailbox. The recipient is often saddened by the lack of value placed on what they've created. Our lives have become so overwhelmingly saturated with activity we've lost sight of being kind just for the sake of being kind. Sending letters used to be the only form of communication and now it's referred to as a "lost art" and treated as an inconvinence. We talk about not know what to say if we were to write the note and not having anyone to send happy mail to anyway. We don't seem to have that trouble with email, texts, and IM, but sending a note with a stamp is too mu...