Adding some color to one of my #sketchnotes from the #parisain2018 conference. It was just a couple of weeks ago now, and already it feels so long ago! I can’t wait til next year’s AIN… in NEW YORK!
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Of all the artists we saw on our trip to Paris & Basel, the one who touched and inspired me the most was not hanging in the Louvre, the Musée Orsay, or the Pompidou Centre, but @agneeesskipper. I fell in LOVE with her paintings, and because I got to meet her, and spend a couple of hours with her and her partner, Joachim, at their beautiful Spektakel Atelier Numas Igra in Basel, I fell in love with HER, too—her energy, her being, everything! 🖍
This doodle is directly inspired by a series of paintings Agnes created inspired by photographs of rocks. The photos and paintings were displayed side by side in an exhibition in June, which I wish I could have seen! You can see a few pics, and a video tour through the gallery, on @agneeesskipper’s Instagram feed.
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Our time with Agnes & Joachim made me long to paint on big canvases! To have a gallery and host wild events like they do! Yet Agnes was intrigued by the things I do that she doesn’t. 🖍
It was a good reminder that each of us has gifts and strengths, and we get to revel in each other’s gifts while embracing our own. It’s not a competition, it’s a party. 😊
You get to be you, I get to be me, and we get to revel in each other. ❤️
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The latest from the Paris trip: Part One of the Achilles Tendon saga that started yesterday. 🖍
I haven’t had time to document the rest, which basically happened today, but suffice it to say I now own a pair of French crutches (to match the pair living in the closet at home… sigh… as if I needed another pair of crutches… but in fact, I did—RIGHT NOW!)
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The good news is I’m in less pain with crutches. At least my left Achilles is. The bad news is it’s a PITA to get anywhere! But on a positive note, I’m getting some fabulous exercise and a good upper body workout with every step! 😉
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To be continued… .
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#Sketchnote of yesterday’s kickoff to our #vacation: the Polaris Lounge in SFO! Followed by a transatlantic flight in Polaris Business class!
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This had been a lifelong dream of mine (or at least as long as Polaris Business has existed!): to fly business class across the Atlantic, ideally on points. Which, quite accidentally, is how it transpired!
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It was pretty sweet. And.. at the end of the day, flying is still a PITA. Polaris just filed the edges down and makes it slightly less painful; it doesn’t actually eliminate the pain entirely, alas… 😜 Still, given my druthers, I’d take it over Economy any day of the week (as if somebody’s asking! 😂 .

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Snapped in our Lyft on the way to SFO! My #sketchnote story of our #lastminuteluck that landed us in #polarisbusinessclass seats to Paris today!!!!! #squee !!!! 🖍
I was always afraid of #artjournaling, keeping a #sketchbookjournal and so on, due to my terrible #perfectionism. 😜 Now that I’m an intentional #imperfectionist, however, I’m starting to discover things like #sketchnoting and #artjournals for the fun of it (I.e., letting it be crap! 😊) 🖍
Turns out, when you let your #originalart be crap, it takes the pressure off, so it becomes fun again. You learn stuff along the way, too, so you can’t help but get better at it. 🖍
Funny how that works. 😊
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