Life updates! I am now a first-time mom, teaching full-time, and completing a graduate program in art education! My child is now a toddler, and I am soaking up each precious moment with him. Now that he is a little older, he’s shown an interest in drawing and experimenting with mark-making with markers and crayons. As for my own art making, outside of the classroom and during my studies for my degree, I've been able to steal precious moments to make art just for myself (usually during nap time).
An art supply I ordered to experiment with in the sketchbook I’m keeping with my son are these multi colored pencils. I’ve been using them for preliminary drawings and cleaning up the lines and values with china markers:
Lately, my son has been enjoying the process of tracing our hands with pencils and crayons. We used multi-colored pencils to trace our hands, and I’ve enjoyed how therapeutic these pencils have been to color in our traced hands.
I created this portrait of Data, one of my favorite characters from Star Trek, during my son’s naptime. I was in the mood to work on a quick painting in large format, experimenting with sumi ink, gouache, and water soluble crayons:
The process of a ceramic series I am working on that speaks to my experiences in early motherhood:
