I’ll Just Look That Up…..

Like many, I’m a shocking scroller. Procrastination is ever present and can be totally absorbing. I convince myself I’m soaking up facts, wonderful creative ideas, enlarging my field of understanding - whilst in reality, I’m only putting off chores which get in the way of adventures and creative pursuits and none of the scrolling translates into action - quite the opposite. Don’t bother telling me to just put the phone away. Nope! That’s not happening.

Even as I finish my coffee in the morning (my worst scrolling time,) a stern look from my cup doesn’t get me moving.

Sometimes I get a wee fright when I see him. He doesn’t appear every time so he can be a shock.

My version of reading the tea leaves, is reading the coffee foam!! He says “get off your arse you lazy woman!!!”

I’ve lost the energy for my creative projects but have been ‘making’ myself create a small collage every day as part of the 100 day art challenge. I started on the 22nd February so should conclude at the end of this month. My hope being that it gets me to the table and it might keep me there. And maybe I’ll like 10 of them. There’s little thought goes into them. It’s just a process to remind myself I’m still here.

One day I stayed and made a picture….

But mostly I don’t, I just find wee pictures within the collage…..

My husbands view on the matter? As long as it keeps you happy darling.

Hmm. Sort of.

Thankfully there are still snippets of sunshine to keep us going.

I can always add things to my concertina sketchbook when I’m stuck (which is most of the time).

The chaos of the concertina sketchbook is probably an accurate reflection of the chaos inside my head. In 7 days time I’m going on a 3 day landscape course in Glencoe which is led by a woman from Cornwall, who teaches that less is more. Sam Boughton. 3 days to just be out in the wild with limited materials and nothing else to do but splatter them onto paper. And potentially freeze our butts off.

I think that sounds like bliss.