Brain Doodles
By Camille Lazarus
Creative Practice Blog #3
This week I approached my creative practice differently. For the past two weeks, I stuck to the guidelines I gave myself initially for drawing, which was thirty minutes of undisrupted time. This week I decided to sit out with my roommates in my living room and engage in my practice since I was feeling a little isolated. As we sat around talking and listening to music, it made me grateful for how far I have grown. In my first year in college, I struggled to find those close relationships that I had from home, and now, in my junior year, sitting reflecting on college this far I am so lucky to have found those people. In relation to my theme of growth, I was thinking of other places in my life where I have grown a lot. Franklin, North Carolina is one of those places. My family has had a house here for over 70 years, a little cottage up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. My grandma grew up spending her summers there, my mom spent her summers there, and I grew up spending a couple weeks every summer there with my siblings and mom. This was a place for my family to disconnect from electronics and spend quality time together. The scene above is the view from one of my favorite hikes around my grandmother's house. It is a nice trail that goes through the mountains and at the top you are met with a beautiful flat rock with views of all of the surrounding mountains. Though my drawing does not do the scene justice, this is one of my favorite places in the world.
I am now getting into a nice routine of drawing and am learning to enjoy my time spent as well. As discussed in the prior weeks I have felt some anxiety and self-doubts when it came to drawing. Now, as I am becoming more confident in my abilities, it is allowing me to relax and think. A lot of the time, my days are so busy and filled with stress but this is a nice way to slow down and ground myself. It is hard to work in time to just allow your brain to think, but drawing has been that outlet that I didn't even realize I needed. Though my drawing skills still have a long way to go, I am learning to let go of my perfectionism and give into my creative brain that has been waiting to be tapped into. I have to remind myself, that this whole process is about growth after all.
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