At the end of November my whole familly (me included) got ill. Lots of coughing and sneezing, tons of medicines and headaches. Together with a very poor physical health I experienced also some time of intellectual “downtime” and my blog did not receive enough love from my side. Today I write about something that let me pick up the pieces and renew my creative and intelectual powers.

Drawing course

One day I took my pencil and - after usual, daily session of doodling monsters and cats for my daughter I decided to draw something else. Of course, it was Internet (YT in particular) that inspired me: I found “Beginer’s drawing course” and started sketching.

Perspective

A vew days have passed and I started to look around: I did a refresher on perspetive and took a lok at several articles about color.

Take out the oil pastels

I noticed them on our art shelve and took them down on the kitche table. My little daughter was more than happy to peel them off the paper wrap and I quickly drew the house in the night. This was like drawing my mood. I immediatelly felt better.

Watercolor

I stumbled upon Olsikowa and Nefka, took out school watercolor paint and tried to draw trees

Tablet

In the evening I sat with Krita and drew old door.

Canvas or p5js

Another inspiration was Franks Laboratory](https://www.youtube.com/c/Frankslaboratory) - after watchin his video, I just had to draw balls running off my mouse…

Izometry

When reading about perspective I also remembered izomerty and started to play with p5js. I drew some hexagons:

And then I drew what I always wanted: some random little houses:

I need to work on colors, add some windows and plant trees there…

Summary

It was a creative week after all. The Art allows to forget the illness, even if my art is imperfect and sometimes just funny. What makes me happy is just the act of drawing, the act of creation. I have a private theory that a creative mind that experience the creation generates at the same time lots of healing particles (some undiscovered aminoacids) that make the illness go away… A good therapy for long, autumn or winter evenings.

Well, I think I would take a look at better watercolors :