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Adding a splash of color to the waterfall on my illustrated map of Blackwater Falls State Park! . .
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Fun fact! Until about two years ago, I ALWAYS drew out my illustrations with a Micron pen and then went over it with watercolor (like I’m doing in this map piece). But one day I realized that I was only doing that because I hadn’t yet developed my watercolor skills enough to make my work look good without the help of the pen. Using pen and ink was serving as a crutch... so I said adios to the pen for almost two full years and assigned myself the mission of mastering watercolors!
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And now that I finally feel like I am able to achieve the results that I was looking for with watercolors, I’m letting myself go back to incorporating pen & ink into my work again. And it’s so much fun!
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If you have an artistic crutch that you’re relying on because you know that it will just get you good results without too much effort, I encourage you to step away from it a bit. Happy growing!
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Also.... obsessed with my new palette of handmade watercolors by @hushwingwatercolors !
All good things are wild, and free. ~ Henry David Thoreau
When a day on the trail ends like this, you know it was in fact a very good day. -
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||Blackwater Falls State Park, Allegheny Mountains, Tucker County, West Virginia ||
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“Before we were born we had no feeling; we were one with the universe.
This is called "mind-only," or "essence of mind," or "big mind," After we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feeling.
You have difficulty because you have feeling. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created. When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water.
Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life.” ― Shunryu Suzuki °
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