Painting: today’s fun with watercolor. These pages are meditative and joyful and simple.
#art #watercolor #willajournal #willajournalscourse #color #joy
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 Writing: today’s quote with thanks to Gibran. A good reminder of choice.
Love lettering in my @willa.wanders journal. Highly recommend both of the classes. #art #lettering #collage #willajournal #gibran #khalilgibran 
Making: another page in the @lizelayne five things signature of my @willa.wanders journal.
So grateful for summer and quiet moments. #art #collage #willajournal #fivethings #journaling  Reading: City People
New vacation day, new ARC. #random #book #netgalley #mystery #reading #arc  Listening to: She Gets the Girl.
Reading more LGBTQ+ books and this was on the list. #random #book #audiobook #ya #lgbtq? #reading  Playing: Another inspiration by @willa.wanders is this watercolor willa journal where I get to play with color every day.
Once I’ve filled up the whole thing, I will go back and letter every page, too. But for now I am just basking in the joy of playing with color every day. #art #watercolor #color #willajournal 
Making: The best part of a holiday weekend is all the time I get to play play play.
I’ve discovered @willa.wanders this year by taking her class on lettering which was life-changing for me. I then signed up for her journal making class which gave me endless amounts of joy. Now I get to practice lettering in my Willa journal daily. #art #lettering #quotes #collage 
Writing: I just finished the June Five Things class by @lizelayne and have loved waking up to her invitation to pause and her simple and yet thoughtful prompts and her inspiring links every morning.
I was on such a roll that I decided.to continue my daily list making by redoing the prompts she’d shared for the February edition. If you haven’t taken her classes before, I highly recommend them. Loving doing them in my @willa.wanders journal. #art #collage #fivethings
This is a different and interesting book on how to structure your sketches for a scene with buildings and landscape. It focuses less on how to draw the bits of a building but more around how to make decisions around where to frame the elements of the scene, how to get the proportions and perspective right and then how to break down the structures of the drawing to get the scene to match what you’re looking at. It’s unlike any other book I’ve read on this topic and I think for that reason alone, it’s a valuable addition to your library of art/sketching books. with gratitude to Tuttle Publishing and edelweiss for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
3.5 stars. This is a well written story that has the most interesting premise. I think the blurb doesn’t do this book justice as the mystery at its heart doesn’t really unfold until way too late in the story and it’s not really a mystery story. I think this would be much better marketed as a speculative literary story. I thought the ending was also rushed and not clear. But I still enjoyed the writing and it’s unlike many other books I’ve read.
What a gem of a novel. If you’re looking for something uplifting and joyful and sweet, this is the book for you.
William Kent Krueger’s “This Tender Land” was my favorite novel of 2019. I then read “Ordinary Grace” and loved it as well. So I was extremely excited to read “The River We Remember” and worried it would disappoint me. I needn’t have. Krueger’s stories have the perfect balance of rich atmosphere, layered and flawed characters that you can’t help but love, beautiful and funny dialogue and they are just heartbreaking and tender all at once. And this one is no exception. On its surface it’s a book about murder and solving the mystery behind it. But, of course, it’s about so much more. It’s about family and love and a small town, and rights, and repressing others, and immigration and assimilation, about hatred and bigotry. It’s about coming together to save each other. It’s stunning and it will stay with me for a long time as all his stories do. with gratitude to netgalley and Atria Books for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review |
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