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Better Days Ahead

I tried a new color, I went purple people eater! I'm going to be lazy and copy and paste what I wrote on social media for this drawing. Happy Friday, friends! Be good to each other. xo

"Finally found time to go back to this drawing and finish it. I struggled with this one...dissatisfied I kept noodling at it but ended up going back to the original plan so I can move to the next one :/.

I love window light and its endless patterns. They are so simple, yet so graphic and descriptive. They tell a story of their travels; where they have been, where they are going.

Window light seeping in between blinds always makes me think of solitude, loneliness and contemplation. It makes me think of the days you don’t want to get out of bed, when you would rather let the strips of light lay on your body and make it bend to you rather than bending to life. Enough warm light to caress your face, as if those strips bring you some connection to the outside world, but hidden enough to stay disconnected so no one can see you. We all have bad days. Today, tomorrow or the future sometimes taunts us. The things we are struggling with whether it be a disease, disability, depression, death, loss, relationships or life’s obstacles that seem to hold us down with little hope. In those moments I turn my head towards the warm ray bans and murmur to myself, 'Better days are ahead'."