Since I started coloring this picture my daily life has unfolded with a refrigerator break down, helping out a stray dog, a night with way too little sleep and a day with way too much coffee (which has far less kick than usual for some strange reason!)
I know this mindset very well with the desire to relax and color, the drooping eyelids, the slight dissatisfaction with my coloring efforts and the desire to feel like I actually accomplished something today (because broken refrigerators and stray dogs don’t get counted as accomplishments the same way that I count my “real” work, lol.)
Whew. Graphite pencil shading. That’s kind of ambitious when I’m this sleepy, isn’t it?
And of course I’m just not wowed at all with the way I’m coloring tonight. But that’s a familiar feeling that pops up on tired evenings when I try to color despite my coloring stamina being extremely poor.
Time to slop on a bit more color and not get hung up on thinking about whether or not this picture is turning out the way I’d like.
And at the end of a short coloring evening, not much progress has been made, and I’m still not wowed by my work. I’m comfortable with that, though. I’ve had evenings like this before, and the next morning I usually find that my picture looks a whole lot nicer than it looked when I was tired. Funny how that happens.
There are going to be coloring days where you might not be able to view your work with a sense of acceptance and appreciation – and it’s entirely possible that it has very little to do with your actual coloring. Maybe nothing is going to look good until you spend a bit of quality time with a soft pillow, letting your mind and body refresh itself and your entire perspective.
(Today’s coloring is from Balance For Crayons And Wide Tipped Markers.)