Week 384 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2025-03-03.
Way back at the tail-end of the first lockdown, I began a journey to create more art. I started with brush pens and have continued to dabble with them and other types of water colours since then.
I had forgotten it had started as a creative hobby during that period, but it was certainly a good thing to get into have endured a lot of time indoors, working away remotely.
Since then, I've purchased the odd bit of acrylic paint and have been sketching on and off.
My iPad mini and Apple Pencil gave me a never ending canvas with which to work. After an initial daily push I haven't kept up enough to really have fallen into a style but I drift in and out of Procreate often and it's probably the best sketch book or canvas that I've ever had.
At the end of 2024, I was gifted some linoleum pieces and tools with which to create prints. I've started a small lino project but I'm still figuring out how to apply the prints neatly.
So I think I've settled on paper + pencil as my most comfortable medium. I have largely given up on water colours (and painting in general) for now. Without training that is going to be tough to get to a stage where I'm really comfortable working with it and able to achieve the visions I have. Lino printing moves up to second on the list, I just need to figure out a good project to get started with.
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