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| Brush pen and watercolor on MD Midori paper |
It’s been 3 months since my last post, so what’s been happening lately? Well, I’m slowly transitioning from sketching to journaling, as you can see this sketch of Heihei in one of the pages of my journal.
Have you ever asked yourself the question where the last years of your life have gone? I did. I can remember some important events but barely remember the year, I was wondering where all this time has gone! Sketching is a form of recording some time of my life, it has helped me to remember.
I started journaling in July this year. Every single day until today I have written about what have happened in my day, even if nothing happened, there are always thoughts, ideas or plans I can write about. At the beginning I was writing everything, I realized the page was overwhelming to read, therefore I now write only about one or two relevant subjects to avoid the mental clutter.
There has been a need to write and express myself through sketches, that’s how this blog started, but I discovered journaling and it has taken me to another fascinating world away from digital media.
It has brought me to more tangible, tactile world. I love paper and from there I knew more about journaling papers, fountain pens, inks, stamping, stickers, decorative tapes, and ephemera, I even got a couple of compact photo printers with self stick paper. I now add photos of my interest to my journal, this way I can take a glance to key moments in my life. That’s an improvement I would say, seeing some photos in my journal is better that none in my memory card. I am even writing letters on paper, some with photos, and sending them by snail mail!
Here I’m sharing a sketch made with color brush pens and watercolor on MD Midori paper to follow the line of this blog about sketches mostly.
So as you can see, I’m not sharing online the deepest thoughts in my journal, just this page. I consider journaling a way to express art as well, I’m avoiding at all cost being stuck in one form and getting bored. I’m evolving, change is welcome and I’m loving it. Try it! You will love it too.
