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Finca Palms.🌴🌴 To be any kind of creative comes a certain struggle, hidden demons we are constantly battling that others may be unaware of. No logical reasoning as to why we do what we do, or what pushes us to keep producing, keep creating. We just do it because we have to. . I am reminded in times such as these how lucky I am to have creativity in my life. Melting the anxiety of the world down into my fingers and releasing it out onto the paper. I am transporting myself back to a moment in time when it was beautiful and silent and calm. Stretching the moment out until I set my pencils down and decide to return to this world. . . #makespace @cptremoteretreat #womenofillustration #alottasmacks #travelillustration #illustration #editorialillustration #pastels #pencilcrayons #palmtrees #travelcolombia #womenwhodraw (at Santa Fe De Antioquia, Antioquia, Colombia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-fvSErA8d2/?igshid=wvf0gyxop0y0

Parque la Estrella. A beautiful day walking and eating mara mango paletas 🥭 🥭 🥭 Thank you to @sancanbot family for the warm Colombian hospitality 🇨🇴🤗. Right as the world was changing.... . . #travelcolombia #illustration #pastels #alottasmacks #editorialillustration #medellincolombia💛💙❤️ #womenwhodraw (at La Estrella, Antioquia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-VjREogoRK/?igshid=11rdxflgahuyf

“Baby in the Bunkie.” Part of a series showcasing a typical Canadian country winter’s day. . . . #canadianwinter #editorialillustration #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #alottasmacks (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv2TP54An93/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=j4cacm40vuo0

Working on reduction and iteration. What information can we eliminate? Cool lessons by @Tom Froese’s Skillshare class, “Odd Bodies.” More to come. Thanks for the great class! . . #alottasmacks #fashionart #torontoillustration #womenofillustration #tomfroese #victorian #art #digitalart #oddbodiesillustration https://www.instagram.com/p/BqdGB0Pn4jW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ns5strzofk2h

“He was a small ratty-faced man with grey teeth. His eyes were dark and quick and clever, like rat's eyes, and his ears were.” -Roald Dahl “The Hitchhiker” a great short story by Roald Dahl. He describes this character so well I felt compelled to draw him. #roalddahl #wip #alottasmacks #torontoillustration #womanwhodraw #womenofillustration #editorialart (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpmwwBjnTgM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v8pz4unadgm3

“....Ostrich found his voice, a voice part lion’s roar, part foghorn, part old man trumpeting into his handkerchief. Ostrich was booming! Which is what ostriches do.” -excerpt from Marilyn Nelson’s poem, “Ostrich and Lark.” -. -. -. #marilynnelson #alottasmacks #torontoillustration #poetry #illustration #kidlit #kidlitart #editorialillustration #editorial #artinsta (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo2YBYSH-3S/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rg7vrmpkh6hl

“....But Ostrich was silent.” - Marilyn Nelson. Excerpt from her poem, “Ostrich and Lark”. -. -. -. #marilynnelson #alottasmacks #torontoillustration #poetry #kidlit #kidlitart #womenwhodraw #illustration #ostrich #authors (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BozW8n9nTKs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pcrteg59rc74

“Every day, all day, over the cicada’s drone, a drizzle of buzzing fell, and a downpour of birdsong. Hornbill, Bee-eater, Hoopoe, Diederik, Mousebird, Whydah, Canary: from gray-light-come to last-light-gone, the fancy dressed suitors of the veld warbled their rain-shower jazz. But Ostrich was silent.” -. Excerpt from Marilyn Nelson’s, “Ostrich and Lark” - 2nd piece in series. -. -. #marilynnelson #alottasmacks #illustration #illustrators #kidlit #poetry #womenwhodraw (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bog-khgArRM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=w67rnza4d0b9