Even though December is done, I continue to enjoy Kasia Avery's Care December 2023 art journaling class. You can access it for free anytime here:
The prompt that I loosely followed was the New Moon prompt from day 4.
I picked out a page spread, gathered some Prismacolor colored pencils in shades of blue, and began intuitively making swirling lines across the page.
I had just been flipping through old nature journals made when I lived in Ohio, and revisiting those journals allowed me to revisit my favorite park there, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark. Going out into nature then, as now, helped me to relax, feel grounded, and to connect to nature and my creativity.
As I recalled my afternoons wandering the park with my nature journal and Prismacolors, my art journal page organically grew into a representation of the Oak Openings sand dunes that I loved.
I found that as I listened to the quiet, tiny voice of my intuition, that inner guide suggested colors (yellow ochre) and ideas (draw winter grasses & dead weeds).
I listened and sketched, all the time remembering the joy I felt in nature hiking the Oak Openings trails, reliving the gratitude I felt for time to spend in my favorite park.
The memory of a nature escape brought up the same feeling of refreshment that I felt all those years ago.
What a powerful practice nature journaling is to provide a well of renewal to dip into again and again!
May the new year bring you opportunities for renewed creativity!
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