Digital Minimalism: Why I Deleted Half My Apps and Feel Better

 

Hello my wonderful friends! I hope you are all good.

Linking this blog post with FFO Friday Face Off hosted by the wonderful and talented Nicole. 

These three faces were frustrating to create be honest. I was not happy in the beginning but I worked through my emotions. lol Yes they have flaws but we are perfectly imperfect too. 

 I wanted to share some more Artwork and some Youtube Shorts with you today but before I do I wanted to share that I deleted X (formerly known as twitter), my facebook Fan page, TikTok, Goodreads and Deviant Art. Too much time wasted! I feel so much better and lighter now. 

I will only be using my blog, Youtube, pinterest and IG. Eventually I will get rid of IG and Facebook all together. I have just wasted so much time on these apps and I want to just focus more on my family and creating some art and sharing it with you all on this blog.

 Doom scrolling stresses me out and I just won't do it anymore. I would like to live in the moment and enjoy each day with my family and create art and I will be sharing my art and stories with you all. I really like this artist community on here and I am grateful for each and everyone of you. 

Currently Reading

"The Creative Act A Way of Being" Rick Rubin

"A Cat's Eye" Margaret Atwood

Also working on "The Artist's Way" Julia Cameron

Has anyone read and followed these exercises? I am on Week one. Love it so far. 

I am stuck on taking myself on a Solo Art Date and find that I am using a lot of excuses not to go. lol

"To far of a walk" "Too Cold" lol 

I will update you if I go on this Solo Art Outing.

Two Films that I recently watched and recommend

"Finding Your Feet" on Prime

"Bob Travino Likes It" on Prime

I kindly received some paints, brushes and paper from my friend Mel from British Columbia and I painted two paintings. Her Youtube Channel is EverythingMarmie.

Gouache Paintings

 I love the birds. I want to make a sky with just birds. 

This reminds me of PEI. I miss the Ocean.

Gouache paints are thicker and need water dilution a lot. The paint has a matt finish. Not sure I like matt finish. I do like the fact you can layer the paint when it is dry and add more detail to it. 

This is watercolours on postcards.

Iced Matcha with Almond milk

I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day and a wonderful weekend.

Here in Canada we have family day on Monday so it's a long weekend for us.  I hope to do some art, thrift and make a vlog this weekend. Have a very happy Valentine's Day if you celebrate.

Much love to you all!

New Vlog!

🌷✨🩷Thank you! 🩷✨🌷

Through The Fog Paintings

 Linking up with Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date

I didn't get the dinner part for this post but I promise next post I will get the dinner part. ;)

I painted today and the prompt for today is FOG

It was very challenging and I love to learn from art challenges. 

Watercolour, acrylic and pencil 

This photo was taken when we lived in PEI.

The Fog was wonderful.