Thanks for joining me for Thursday Art Date with Rain. As I mentioned last week, I consider myself a self-taught artist. I know very little about various art styles and techniques. Whatever captures my eye is usually what I draw, so when Rain throws a prompt at me such as she did last week and judging by the rest of theme for this month, I’m gonna be challenged to put my spin on things.
Today, she’s teasing the TAD community to come up with our own “Minimalism” artwork. I’m not a very good abstract artist. My brain doesn’t work that way but it’s interesting that minimalism in an art form composing of simple geometric shapes like a square or rectangle. However, Rain encouraged us to not limit ourselves to these basic shapes only. My first thought was to do a simple design. In Procreate the flat painting tool brush appears to make a rectangular shape I discovered months ago but when I use this brush in a circular pattern it resembles a poppy. Along the Interstates in Tennessee and North Carolina the states plant poppies to fill in the landscape in the warm months. It’s beautiful to see vivid color painting the medium and exits and so I painted a field of poppies of my own.
I didn’t feel comfortable with my take on the prompt, so I consulted DuckDuckGo and it turns out after browsing through the examples, I realized that I once was a minimalist artist and didn’t even know it. In my younger years, I liked drawing mountain landscapes and for some reason they turned out something like what you see below.
It’s funny, you won’t find mountains like this in the eastern part of the U.S. so I have no clue why I doodled mountains to look like that, why didn’t I go with more round hills? As an older kid I did make hillsides more rounded and often would doodle a house composing of a squares, rectangles, and triangles in the foreground.
I wouldn’t call my artwork abstract. They are very simple designs. However, I’ve learned since picking up my pencil it helps to pick out the shapes in what I’m drawing for ease of translation from my brain to my fingers. I have yet to hon my perspective skills but the more I practice the better that will get.
This week’s Thankful Thursday, I’m very thankful I finally got my MRI scheduled for Monday. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get my follow-up next week as well. It won’t be until the end of the month but I plan to check with the appointments’ desk for cancellations that will work with our schedule. That would be awesome. The sooner I can get this figured out the sooner I can get back to my ole self again.
I’m thankful that I’ve been able to blog nearly every day since I returned to normal blogging life again. I’m fairly confident that this can’t keep up. I have a tendency to burning out after a month or so and that’s fine. I’ll slack off for awhile then will be good to go again. What’s the point to doing it, if it’s not fun, right?
I’m thankful this is a very short work week. DH had Monday off because of the holiday and Friday is his scheduled day off.
I’m going to try to take part in Kat’s Writing Workshop today by borrowing from her prompts, What did not get accomplished this summer that you wish you had time for?
What didn’t get accomplished as I had planned this summer was to finish catching up with all of the fine bloggers who visited me during the April A-Z Challenge. I was able to strike off one blogger a month at a very easy going pace. My hope to visit more was too big of bite for me to handle with other things I managed to get done on my supposed blog hiatus and realizing this, I just went with the flow. I didn’t want it to feel like a chore, but a joy and that’s the way I left each of the bloggers’ sites I managed to share with my readers at the first of the month, too. I have another Road Trip update in the works set for Oct.1st so mark your calendar to see which blogger gets featured. 😉
I’m heading over to Rain’s Garden to browse the gallery of artistry. Before I skip off, I want to share my TBT song pick inspired by today’s artwork. I give you “Holdin’ On To Yesterday” from 1975 by Ambrosia! Have a doodletastic day! X💋X💋, Cathy
