{"id":1774,"date":"2024-05-13T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-mermaid-purples\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:27:01","slug":"sketchbook-mermaid-purples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-mermaid-purples\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook \/\/ mermaid, purples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, definitely enjoying drawing & painting in the dotgrid notebook. (I think it’s a Leuchtturm<\/a>? My sister gave it to me. It’s a bit smaller than I like but I have now a stack–more from my sweetie & kids– to be used so I will.)<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure a reason I enjoy this is because there’s no pressure on me. I can make practice art on definitely-not \u2013for-watercolor paper and be happy.<\/p>\n

Maybe part of that relaxedness is the menopause trait that I’m experiencing of things not bothering me as much.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, given my dreams the last couple nights, maybe things are bothering me more than I think! One was about discovering an apartment full of stuff that I forgot I had and had to deal with. (in waking life, we are working on emptying out my mother-in-law’s house, a process which is unsurprisingly feelings-full for her and somewhat stressful and at least tiring for all.)<\/p>\n

I can’t remember the one I had the next night, but my thoughts on waking (I was remembering it then, but it was 4:15 in the morning and I wasn’t getting out of bed yet, darnit) something about “Ok, I may be more worried about that than I thought.” I wonder what it was, now? People? Health? World in general?<\/p>\n

Well if that is the case in my subconscious, I better get back to scribbly sketch painting. For mental health, you know. 😊<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A purpleish mermaid in my sketchbook notebook planner book thing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[95,256,386,99,252,43],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-mermaid","tag-mermay","tag-patreon-post","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/untitled-design-1.png?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-sC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1594,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/sketchbook-four-more-little-ideas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1774,"position":0},"title":"Sketchbook \/\/ four more little ideas","author":"Kir","date":"6 October 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"When I drafted this post in May, I didn't know if I want to ink them or watercolor them or both\u2026.Over on Instagram I posted a reel about adding some ink to the upper right image. 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