draw together 2025

i'm doing wendy mac's draw together on substack. i started it last year as well, but didn't get very far. i'm already a little bit behind (i've been sick this week), but here's how it's going so far...

day 1 - thinking about what i want more and less of in 2025.

it's a great opportunity to use my new japanese watercolors. they're more opaque than normal ones, which is fun to play with.

i'm using this year's munken agenda as the notebook - it's part calendar and part notebook and this year's seems especially suited to art journaling.

i liked this swirl exercise - the idea was to start on the outside and go in and on the inside and go out. my inside out, i continued and did a second outside in. it was unexpectedly soothing and relaxing.

day 3, the assignment was making lots of little connected circles. that was also soothing. i liked that it was the assignment on this page of the calendar, which had a colorful background already.

i think this grid exercise shows my growing interest in weaving.

this one, we had to make a doodle and then color in some of it, using only two colors. every exercise is only 10 minutes and then you have to stop. you should be left wanting more. and that's been the case on every exercise so far.

this one, we had to tape off a grid and make some backgrounds. it's here i got to use my new japanese watercolors. and it took more than 10 minutes because i had to wait for it to dry.

then we had to paint some of the shapes from the previous day's exercise in the squares. can you see the ones i tried to copy? alas, the tape ripped off some of the paper when i took it off. that made me a little sad. i wouldn't have thought washi tape would do that.

as i said, i'm a little behind, so more soon, it's the 10th, so i get to do four exercises today!