A post shared by Melissa Dinwiddie | Instigator (@a_creative_life) on Apr 19, 2017 at 7:08am PDT

I *really* liked an earlier version of this, a couple of layers ago… but of course I just couldn’t stop. Ah, well. Now I’ll keep going and turn it into something else! ?

That’s how it works in the Creative Sandbox! It’s called Guidepost #7: Take the riskier path. Aka do the thing that scares you.

It’s only paper, you guys!

Tuesday morning doodle. #creativesandbox #creativesandboxway #doodle #doodles #doodleart #doodleartist #doodlesofinstagram #dailydoodle2017 #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #abstractart #originalart #originalartwork #blackandwhite #pigmamicron #the100dayproject #100dayproject

For today’s Monday Morning Doodlecam, I turned to my Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils to add a dash of color to yesterday’s doodle.

The *plan* had been to make a new tiny painting, but somebody forgot to prime a new set of canvases with watercolor ground yesterday, because we were so busy clutterbusting and clearing out kitchen cabinets, getting ready for the haulers to come pick up stuff this afternoon and the demo guy to come on Friday.

And now a new monkey wrench: while removing stuff from a cabinet, we discovered black mold on the drywall of kitchen ceiling, beneath the thin particle board at the top of the cabinet!

So now we *also* have a mold remediation company coming out early tomorrow.
Sheesh! Thank goodness I have my art to keep me sane!

Even if I don’t get to do the art I was *planning* on doing, I get to do *something*. That’s the point: it doesn’t matter *what* you do; it matters *that* you do it.

THAT is the Creative Sandbox Way. ?

What are you creating today?

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Morning art in my early morning studio (aka my bed ?). Pigma Micron marker in Strathmore Visual Journal, Bristol Smooth paper.
What are you creating this fine Spring Passover Easter Sunday?
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A more formal presentation of yesterday’s art, which needs a title. #titleme What would you name it?

All of my watercolor-ground-primed canvases are painted, so it’s time to prime some more! Today’s morning art will be in my sketchbook, as it takes a day for the ground to cure.
Watch this space for more tiny paintings! They will all be for sale at my open studio, May 13-14 (but if you fall in love with something, arrangements can be made for you to adopt it before then. ?) #creativesandbox #creativesandboxway #doodle #doodles #doodleart #doodleartist #doodlesofinstagram #dailydoodle2017 #dailydoodle #dailycreative #dailyart #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #abstractart #originalart #originalartwork #pencil #watercolorground #watercolor #winsornewton #winsornewtonmarker #watercolormarkers #100dayproject #the100dayproject #tinycanvas #tinypainting #tinyart #miniart #minicanvas