I did Day 07 and Day 08 one after the other. I was a little worried that I wasn’t going to give myself enough time to hear my intuition (but I also wanted to catch up). I think the prompts for these two days went well together: giving myself permission and saying “it’s okay…” felt complimentary. The message for both came readily: I want to give myself permission to dream and I want to tell myself that it is okay to rest. I think I’ve in a “dream and rest” state for a while, working on reclaiming my creativity and working towards making my dream of an art career into a reality. I’m always fighting that voice in my head that tells me I’m falling behind, running out of time, not doing enough, that’s always asking for more, more, more. I’m tuning into the voice that says I can take as much time as need, that it is okay to rest and take things slow, one step at a time, progress not perfection.

I have been getting a little tired of just using gouache every day, so I tried to mix it up by using ink to draw in the tree branches and some of the squiggles. I actually really like how the trees turned out below the word “dream.” I have a pretty old cheap brush that I used to make the leaves.