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September 2020 Bullet Journal

September 2020 Bullet Journal

Published by Hot Pink Unicorn Mess on August 16, 2020

I haven’t used my physical, paper bullet journal since February of 2020. There are a lot of reasons for that. I won’t go into them, because if you live in the U.S. or aren’t shut away from the news, you no doubt will have some idea and empathy as to why. So the first week of August I did the bare minimum to get myself back into it. I made two pages. One was a mind dump of ideas and random thoughts about what the house needs, what I could do for paintings, what sort of prints I might try…

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Do Unicorns dream of electric watercolors?Watercolor painting depicting a starry, sunset sky, the characters from Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring in silhouette.

Do Unicorns dream of electric watercolors?

Published by Hot Pink Unicorn Mess on February 17, 2020

Dry, dusty, parched and chalky earth that has been touched by the first drops of rain. The whiskery shush of bristles that swirl gently over a small cake of vibrant color, creating rainbow bubbles that quickly disperse. Fine hairs sweep across a dry or dampened thick piece of paper that whispers encouragement to keep trying. Experiment. Too much water. Not enough. I’m blank. Try again. Keep going. I can smell the watercolors. Especially the Arteza palette. It reminds me of something half way between side-walk chalk accidentally left into a storm and the wave of smell that comes from a…

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