I posted this on Facebook but thought it might be nice to post here too
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A combination of too much chai yesterday afternoon paired with anxiety from reading way too much about the Paris attacks before bedtime left me wide awake in the middle of the night last night.
Usually if this happens I get up and write in my journal or read a book or do some yoga and I can manage to go to sleep again.
I don't often draw when I wake in the night because my inner critic rages at the midnight hour (unless I've stayed up in a manic obsession over a specific project). But I've been teaching art this fall and I showed the kids I teach how to draw Indian Rangolis a few weeks ago. Turns out Indian Rangolis are pretty therapeutic to draw when my brain is in overdrive.
It felt like a quiet rebellion to use my anxiety as an excuse to focus on beauty for beauty's sake while I cozied up to the stove in my studio. Here are my prayers for Paris and the world, drawn mostly in the anxious hours of the early morning, myself like so many: striving in the face of fear to turn toward the light.
I'l
l add that I've had a lot of requests for coloring sheets.
Good idea. The
se aren't great pictures because they are just s
napped with the scanner app on my phone but I'll put some up so
on for anyone i
nterested.