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Accidentally found the place where fairies live while wandering around Germany

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I recently hurt my right hand so I’ve been trying to rest it as much as possible. But I started to really miss drawing and I didn’t want to waste a moment when I was feeling so inspired to make art. So I started drawing with my left hand. The process is slow, each line a bit of a mystery because my hand isn’t used to the movements. But I actually had a lot of fun working on these pages, it was easy to get into a flow state because I had to really focus on what I was doing. I didn’t really expect much from this because I’ve never seriously attempted drawing with my left hand so in the end I was pleasantly surprised at the result. Anyways - message of the day is - go make some art:)

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Look if there is absolutely nothing else you take away from the nonsense I am posting, it's this: Make Art.

Make art, with whatever you have. Use scrap cardboard and tape and build something; doodle in your notebooks, make a beautiful dinner, grow a plant, write, paint your nails. Learn to whittle, to knit, to cut straight lines, to sew, to cook, to run at a problem and not solve it the first time. Learn to try again.

Make things the wrong way.

If it works, do it again, better. If it doesn't, do it again, different. Draw badly. Look at the way the light hits something and try to figure out the colors it makes. Watch the way strangers walk and how the weight of them shifts in motion.

Creating art--beautiful things, ugly things, silly things--is not something that you should be leaving to people who are better at it or can afford the expensive materials or have a deep message or whatever. Do it anyway. Do it worse, do it cheaply, do it just for the joy of doing it. The work itself has merit. The work itself is rewarding. Make art.

And pet your cat.

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