Today I read through several days worth of Leah’s Art Every Day Month Survival Guide, and combined several prompts into today’s art session:

1. Finish, or recycle, abandoned pieces: I cut up old some inkblot portraits that I’d never been happy with so that they were completely unrecognizable.

2. Work small: These are all 3″ by 5″ or smaller.

3. Permission to make mistakes, to make “bad art.” I am not a watercolorist. Watercolor often makes me anxious. So I just decided, hell, if these turn out REALLY ugly I don’t have to post ’em, right?

I ended up being really happy with all of them.

Dreaming. India ink, watercolor.

Zebra Exits, with Dignity. India ink, watercolor.

Poppy. India ink, watercolor.