Still not 100% back to normal from the stomach bug but mostly there. We’re going away for the weekend so I’m in a rush to get back to normal and not jeopardize the trip. Setting aside the physical stuff this week, I’ve actually been in a pretty good mood. I’ve made some (small) steps towards getting making my art business more of a reality and less of a day dream. I signed up for a course on art licensing so I’m also excited to dig into that next week and learn what I need to learn instead of just being overwhelmed by all of the things I don’t know.

I have a really hard time giving myself credit. I’m always downplaying things I do, or beating myself up that I didn’t accomplish more, or thinking, “oh, that’s such a small thing, look at all of these other people who have accomplished so much more.” I’m trying really hard to give myself credit for the things I’m doing. So my message for today was being pleased with myself.

I was doing Jen Dixon’s watercolor bootcamp before this challenge started, and I wanted to try doing some of the exercises with gouache and boy was it difficult to get the consistency and thickness right on the yellow “bricks.” But I think the letters turned out better, because the blue was a little more opaque and covered up my mistakes. But I totally ran out of room for “pleased” so I had to just go with it.