I wrote here awhile ago about how I wanted to get back into written journaling and that I was feeling a bit of artistic inertia in my personal art making.

So I took my own advice and I slung some paint around. But I also watched some videos about creativity and finally wrote in my journal.

Considering my previous gap was 15 days, having only 4 days since I last journaled is a win.

After that I felt a lot better. A little weight off my shoulders.

(I also did 3 loads of laundry and did a little tidy of my art desk.)

After tidying my art desk I got out my Inktense watercolor set and some coffee filters.

I layered some sunrise colors over the coffee filters and plan on using them as chine collé with a few of my recent plates that I’ve made. I’ve done quite well with my plate making goal- I’m about 15/30. I printed a bunch of them including this cute little skull:

More on the printed plates later, the fun paint slinging resulted in these:

It’ll be interesting to see these paired with some prints. I think the warm and cool sunrise colors are going to be great with some of the images I’ve got going.