Fellow scribblers and wild magic makers,
In Hedgerow, we are going deep, purposeful, and slow.
Think of it as the slow food movement for wildlife art.
One of the ways to do that is to have focus areas that last for more than just one session. It is hard to make lasting connections when we move through content quickly. It becomes more embodied when we focus and practise multiple times over and move at the pace of our own humanness. We will focus on one animal or bird for two months at a time, and we will focus on one important aspect of art making for 4 months. This first module will include owls and wolves, and focus on shape and form. In case you can’t tell, I am a little bit very excited :)
These tutorials honouring Harris Hawk are a taste of all the things we will play with together.
Let’s finish off the sketch we started yesterday.
Remember that you don’t have to have large swathes of time put aside for making art (though if you can, that is wonderful!). We can make amazing art in the margins, and in doing so we are showing ourselves that we value the self care that comes with creating, and are committed to being able to do this practice in any way we can.
Know what else that fosters?
Safety.
And if you feel safe in your art practice, you are much more likely to keep going, even when all sorts of hurdles, fears, frustrations, comparison and more are thrown at you.
If you feel safe and ready to do so, come over to the community and show me your Harris Hawk (or you are always welcome to just hit reply and land in my inbox). I would be so honoured to see! And celebrate you for doing the big and beautiful thing of showing up for your gorgeous self, for your creativity, and for the wild.
Remember: It is not the supplies that make the magic, that dear one comes from you.
But because I have been asked, I am using:
A Stillman & Birn Zeta series softcover sketchbook 14cmx21.6cm or 5.5”x8.5”
A Faber-Castell Polychromos pencil in Prussian Blue