sticker paper

 my roommate is in grad school and she printed something on sticker paper by accident.

she gave me it back to use for art rzns.....so here's what I did with it.

I honestly was kind of intimidated by the idea of starting, because my idea was to make a big fun design and cut it up into little stickers and send them to my pen pals but. I didnt wanna mess it up*

*the mind killer

so I added some little dudes because thats been what I do when im stuck lately

got stuck again so I turned it upside down. this helped. it abstracted the words a little bit more, looking at them upside-down and kinda gave me permission to stray from the faces I had previously drawn.

I wasn't rly feeling paint pens. I wanted to cover more space. so I poured some acrylic paint on it and spread it out with a sponge brush (the least used of my brushes!)

it was too wet to work on, so I did some laundry & came back to it! 

oh. it got all buckled.

guess I'll tape it down.

ah yes. now I had to break the ice again (add SOMETHING anything to the blank-ish surface so it was less intimidating) I wrote "THERE ARE NO RULES" as a reminder to myself to stop overthinking it.

moar. 

I kept drawing ears, probably because of the audiology notes below everything 

I particularly liked this little bit. even though I painted over it a little and it looks different now. im glad I took this picture ^ ! 

here's the finished** piece !

**maybe

I had lots of fun making this despite getting stuck at first. I'm excited to see where else it goes!!! 

I really like writing my thoughts down in the work as im painting. for one, it helps me remember these #affirmations I wrote & for two, im trying to get more comfy with sharing my writing. even if its just a handful of words. 

im kinda scared to cut up the piece into little stickers lol. but im gonna leave it for now then next time I come back to it I will decide if I still want to ! !! 

some other stuff

1. I've shared this elsewhere but I wanna show it here too. I made this zine in 2019 but never printed it

I just found it in my photos so I made some copies! it's about being brainfoggy and feeling like your brain is a tomato. 

2. I made a comic(?) about my oc who I draw all the time because i felt like no one knows anything about her but anyone who follows me sees her all the time. so here's that: 

okay thats about it luv u buh bye!