Week 8: Creative Practice Blog #7

 

Brain Doodles

By Camille Lazarus 

Creative Practice Blog #7

    Now entering the second half of the semester, I decided to stick with my same theme of growth (reflected in nature) but decided to change my medium. Instead of doing colored pencil drawing, I am incorporating watercolor painting into my creative practice. Today, I decided to start my journey with watercolor painting. Something I really want to work towards is painting beautiful sunset and water scenes, which I believe are most beautifully done through watercolor. Though I still want to explore colored pencils, I can still practice my drawing skills by sketching with oil pastels, which is what I did for this creative practice. I wanted to start off simple with a simple sunflower painting to get the feel of exploring different scenes with watercolor painting. In connection to my theme of growth, flowers are another beautiful picture of growth within nature. I have always been drawn to flowers, I love making floral arrangements, giving bouquets to people, remembering my close one's favorite flowers, etc. 

    Right now, I am in dire need of quality self-care time, or more so moments of intentional mindfulness, as I have said before, this practice has turned into that much-needed time for myself. Before engaging in my practice, I was feeling extremely stressed out by looking at all my upcoming assignments. After, I felt calmer, but also more level-headed to conquer the work that I had ahead of me.