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FOOD THAT I EAT IN A DAY

Fell behind on my inktober, one day. Nothing I can't remedy! Hoping on some speedy progress in the upcoming days. So, here's my shortly overdue Inktober, day 14. Prompt: what you eat in a day. From @frannerd 's suggestions on "what to draw...". Slowly getting to the harder ones! Gulp* haha

In the morning I jumpstart my day with a good old cuppa miracle matcha. If you haven't tried it, don't take my word for it, but be warned it will change your life (for the better, forever)! Accompany that with a yummy choc chip muffin or banana pancakes, I like to pretend I'm being healthy.

Next up! A midmorning energy boost with @kombuchile_oficial, another great health find this year. Cos you know, health is wealth! 💸

I like to eat a minimum effort lunch, so I usually go for a homemade veggie burger and seasonal veg, right now asparagus is coming into season! So, yay!

Dinner comes with a treat so I go for a fatty coconut banana pineapple smoothie and some oreo cookies to sweeten things up a bit. & that would be it! I'd call my culinary style a little but of naughty and nice 😇😈 Hope you enjoyed my ink food doodles of the day!

Do you have any favourite superfoods atm!? I'd love to know, feel free to share!

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS (from last month)

This prompt was fun, as it allowed me to indulge in remembering all the wonderful things from September ☉

Rio of course had to be top of the list, with the mesmerising semi-religious experience of listening to music played at the Bip Bip Bar Copacabana, Bossa Nova on a Wednesday night, and we worshiped at the altar of it with beer in hand, a trance I might never wake up from... Coconuts to your left, coconuts to your right, everywhere you turn, fresh coconuts on ice and hot sand, ready for you to plunge your feet into. You know, if you're into that! Haha Finally, those beaches merited a new bikini and this was my vintage styled budget buy. Only 10 bucks guys!

There is an intruder in the house! A house guest who according to some has overstayed his welcome, but I couldn't be happier! Lucky, is his name and lucky me! I get to have a cat for a while.

The drink to the right is a peculiar national alcoholic beverage from Chile (where I live), they mainly crack it out for National Festivities which occur in September, and if you've never had a hangover this guy will help you out. Not for the faint hearted, Terremoto is a mix of white unfiltered wine, pineapple ice-cream and grenadine, bottoms up!

Finally, this is the month I started my Instagram page, and gave myself permission to express this long dormant desire to paint and share. So, yay September!

What are some of your guys favourite things from last month?

Here's inktober, day 7. (Prompt courtesy of @frannerd 's YouTube channel)

Total time elapsed: 4hrs

JAPAN

Prompt of the day was: Japanese things *heart emoji

Inktober, day 3.

Rushed brushstrokes, amid work and wine, managed to rustle up a few hours in between to meet the mark for today, make some art and keep on track with practice. Diamonds are made under pressure people!

Here are the flash doodles of the day!

Total time: 2 hrs

Over and out!

“Cos hippos like taking selfies too”

I started picking up painting again this year. After a 10 year hiatus of travels and adventures and survivalism all over the world. As I found myself having settled down for the first time in years, I heard that voice from within saying “Hey! Remember about your dreams growing up? Remember what you came here to this planet to do.” And I couldn't shut it up again. The desire in me grew and grew and the more I tried to argue my way out of it “I'm not good enough, I don't have time, it's not a viable career option”, the more I found my arguments to be lacking in conviction. So, I took the plunge and decided that the best way to go about it is sharing my journey in the hopes of meeting people who are on the same road as I am and finding inspiration in their stories. Aspirers, dreamers and go-getters.

Step 1. Just start. Throw yourself in on the deep end. I was terrified of failing at the first attempts and I learned that the more I just went towards my fear and actually gave myself space to make the mistakes, the better work I produced, even at first try.

Step 2. Be consistent. This perhaps is one of the harder aspects of creating and attempting to create a consistent body of work. One of the reasons for the blog! One of the challenges for this year.

Step 3. Share!

Mua!

Lala