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Drench yourself in words unspoken

June 3, 2021

Today is where your book begins

I am unwritten

I am unwritten, can’t read my mind, I’m undefined

I’m just beginning, the pen’s in my hand, ending unplanned

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten

One of my all time favorite inspirational songs and it played while I sketched this.

Pencil—>ink—>watercolor pencils, 3/61

P R O C E S S N O T E S

This is the first year of ICAD where I pictured something in my mind and put it to paper. In the past I primarily searched online, found something that appealed, and then used it as inspiration. I struggled to create something of my own.

I spent a great deal of time worrying about whether others would (A) like what I had created, (B) consider me a horrible artist, or (C) think I thought whatever I had created was “good.”

Think about all that energy and how instead it could have been used to create.

It took some time, lots of practice, and a heckuva great deal of courage to let all that go. Like the song lyrics tell us: “We’ve been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can’t live that way.”

There’s a delicious freedom at your disposal to let your intuition guide you. To listen and tell your inner critic to hit the road.

Create for the sake of creating. You’ll understand what I’m talking about when you do.

Pick up that pencil, that brush, that pen, whatever — get to it.

XOX

Filed Under: Art Projects Tagged With: ICAD, process notes

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Bex Hall

Her writing has appeared in various online and print publications, most recently in Kerning, a literary magazine, and in the Stories of Hope Collection in Transplant Living. Her artwork has appeared and sold through the Grayson Gallery. She blogs here about creative life and creates in Studio BE overlooking the Ohio River. Her work in progress is a memoir about the secret life of objects.

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