Paper Boat Illustrations

Trying to get into the groove of posting here on Tumblr.

Here’s something I finished the other day. Originally I’d planned on working on another piece but I was mentally exhausted and it didn’t happen. Instead I let myself get lost in the process. I did really good not getting caught up on tiny details while also allowing myself to just slow down and work on one small area at a time. The hours passed and before I knew it my husband was home from work and the sun had set. Lol.

I’m in the process of *vague hand gestures while I search for words* my art style is going through a somewhat drastic change. Pandemic left me super sick so I’ve gone from focusing on the hustle to focusing on self care and my art is a huge part of who I am and what I need to be happy. So, as I am changing my art is too.

This piece is in part inspired by something I really liked in a previous work I was playing around with (I’ll post that in a bit) and also the style of some of Feefal’s works… @feefal (ope, I just discovered how the at symbol works here) that my sister introduced me to some while back. Seriously go check out their stuff it’s amazing,

I’m really loving playing with things like transparency and opacity right now and constantly trying to understand how colors work which is why I’m mostly sticking to dark canvases right now. Plus my eyes like it. All hail dark mode!