I made a decision to give up using any plastic paints (ie: Acrylics). One reason was I wanted to keep our apartment relatively kid-friendly for our granddaughters. But other big motivator behind my giving up all acrylic mediums was my concern for the oceans and the impact plastics are having on our environment. For the past three years I was mostly focused on drawing until I caught the watercolor bug from my peers in Joel’s zoom class. The problem with watercolor is that it is hard to work large. And there is a part of me that craves a wall with a big piece of paper on it and big brushes and buckets of paint.
Our failure to deal with the pandemic on an individual or institutional level does not give me hope for our ability to handle the climate crises. I saved our discarded antigen tests from New Years. Now I have been drawing them with the dolls. It definitely captures how I feel these days. I only wish I could make this particular drawing 5 feet tall!!!
