After building my easel and setting up a studio space<\/a>, I didn’t get around to working in it for a couple of weeks. But this morning I jumped up when the alarm went off and headed out with coffee mug in hand.<\/p>\n

Since I was working with watercolor pencils and had to wait for each layer to dry I bounced between two different projects.<\/p>\n

Here’s the watercolor on the easel:<\/p>\n

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While it’s drying, I cut down a larger sheet of paper and then centered my Tree of Life<\/a> drawing inside it and taped it to the window with the sun shining directly on it. Sometimes, having a free lightbox is just an amazing convenience!<\/p>\n

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And here it is once I finished transferring it to the larger paper:<\/p>\n

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Good progress made before heading off to work. I call that a creative success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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