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January Peek Cards

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Happy February, everyone! Welcome to the month of love ❤ Today I thought I’d share my January Peek Cards with you. What are those, you might ask? Well, remember when I was telling you about the fun style of art journaling I started this year? Peek Cards are a weekly art journaling task in which you do a watercolor around the size of a playing card (I traced around a bank card for mine). I really enjoyed making my peek cards throughout January, especially because the entire time I focused on just having fun, not perfection.IMG_0101Upper Left: New Year’s Decorations in Japan
Upper Right: The Moon Bridge from Koishikawa Kourakuen Gardens
Lower Left: A sweet kitty cat made to look like kamon
Lower Right: A snowflake

Looking forward to the adventures February brings!
xx Caitlyn

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Bookspiration: Owl Postcards

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“For to witness majesty, to find yourself literally touched by it, isn’t that what we’ve all been waiting for?”

-David Sedaris

After reading Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, I decided to make postcards with owls on them. I made four postcards in total, trying to keep them simple with easy watercolor owls saying the above quote.

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I tried my best not to worry too much about detail, and after free-handing the calligraphy, I also quickly free-handed the cute little owls.

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It’s a little bit hard to see the light green-colored wings in the picture, but I liked the way it turned out. I’m thinking I might send the postcards to people via postcrossing. I accidentally changed the quote slightly in the postcard featured above, but I still thought the art was nice. Sedaris writes the phrase I quoted when talking about coming across something beautiful and unexpected in nature, and making a private connection with nature in that moment.

Have you experienced any moments of majesty lately?

xx