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Week 12: Drawing and Painting - Summary and Conclusion

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  **************                 Hello Again!              **************   11-20- 2022          I hope everyone had a great week. This is the last week of the project and the week before Thanksgiving. I unfortunately got sick halfway through the week but I was able to take that time and devote it to my project. Over the past 12 weeks, I have done a lot of painting and a little journaling. I did not expect this project to go the way it has but I have enjoyed it nonetheless. I have learned a lot about plants and myself in the process. Growth was my theme and not only do I think each piece I made contained that, but my person did as well. I am certainly different from when I started this project and it really has been a joy to do it.      When I started this class, I really didn't believe that art could do much for physical health. I knew its impacts on mental,...
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Week 11: Drawing and Painting

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  **************                 Hello Again!              **************   11-13- 2022          I hope everyone had a great week. This week was more normal than previous weeks with the exception of the hurricane. This just gave me another break to help rest. As the semester gets closer to its end, the stress gets higher and higher. This weeks drawing was more complex and I tried to do minimal sketching and let the paint/outlining shine. Overall, it was just an additional relaxation factor on my week for there wasn't anything that truly stressed me out. Here is my process of creating clove.   ***********************                           Monday                    ***********************            On Monday, I de...
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Week 10: Drawing and Painting

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  **************                 Hello Again!              ************** 11-6- 2022          I hope everyone had a good week. This week was very busy with school work so finding time to participate in this exercise was difficult. However, I was able to complete my drawing despite the scheduling issues. I decided this week to work on cinnamon as inspired by the holiday season. Cinnamon is one I can work with in my cooking journey as well as learning about the different herbs. I feel like I have grown a lot with this project and I am sad to see it coming to an end so soon. There are still a few more posts left so lets make the most of it! I decided to learn about cinnamon this week.  ***********************                           Monday                   ...
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Chapter 9: Drawing and Painting

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  **************                 Hello Again!              **************   10-30- 2022          I hope everyone had a good week. This week was only stressful. Between presentations and midterms, I am happy I survived it. I did my creative practice project in a weird order this week. I did the drawing, then I did the painting and the outlining in one step. With everything as crazy as it was, I am happy I was able to complete it. Regardless, it was a great help this week. I was not able to devote a lot of time too it, but I am happy with the effects.           I am also growing my knowledge on all these herbs and plants. I am so excited I started this project and I am sad there are only a few weeks more. I hope maybe to do some cool ones for the last few. We will see. This week I chose to do pine.  ***********************    ...
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Week 8: Drawing and Painting - Change of Plans

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  **************                 Hello Again!              **************   10-23- 2022          I hope everyone had a great week. This week was nothing shy of normal, which I am happy to have had. Now that everything crazy is over, its nice to have one normal week. That being said, I was interested to see how my creative practice project was going to impact me this week. It helped me get through the insanity of last week so I was interested to see how it helped on a normal week. This week I decided to paint chamomile.          Also, I really am enjoying painting and drawing. I am enjoying it so much that I am going to continue this portion for the rest of the project. I have found a love for making progress on this project and I feel that I will not love photography as much. I am excited to keep painting and drawing regularly! I wouldn't be doing t...
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Week 7 : Drawing and Painting

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  **************                 Hello Again!              **************   10-16- 2022          I hope everyone had a great week. This week was my first normal week back in a while. This placed a lot of stress on my shoulders more rapidly than I was prepared for. None-the-less, this project really helped me out this week. I was able to put it on pause and just paint. It was something I needed to get through this week. I am hopeful because the next couple of weeks are not going to be easy either. If it was able to help me as much as it did this week, I am hopeful for the weeks to come. This week I decided to paint and learn about lavender.  ***********************                           Monday                    ***********************   ...
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Week 6: Drawing and Painting

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  **************                 Hello Again!              **************   10-09- 2022          I hope everyone has had a wonderful week this week. This week was also another crazy one. My cousin got married in Helen, GA this past week and I was fortunate enough to get excused from classes and attend as a member of the bridal party. This meant the week was crazy with activities, planning, and the ceremony. Along with this meant a lot of mingling and meeting people. It was an insane week.            However, this week I was finally able to experience that feeling of bliss while working on this project. I took time throughout the week to do some sketching or painting progress on my herb project. While it was weird I had a portable watercolor set and brushes, I didn't mind. With all the stress going on, it was a wonderful experience to just ...
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Week 5: Drawing and Painting - An Introduction

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  **************                 Hello Again!              **************   10-03- 2022          I hope that with everything that has happened over the last week that everyone is safe and secure. For those who don't know, this past week, Florida was hit by hurricane Ian. While Gainesville did not get the blunt of the storm, many areas in Central Florida were flooded and damaged by the storm. I went home to be with my family which also just so happened to be directly in the path of the storm. Thankfully, everyone was safe and my community remained mostly unharmed but there were a lot of surrounding areas that were impacted.          With this unpredictable weather came a change in class schedule and in my medium for this project. School was canceled for the end of the week, giving me ample time to figure out exactly what I wanted to accomplish. I dec...
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Week 4: Journaling and Poetry - Summary and Conclusion

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**************                 Hello Again!              **************   09-25-2022          I hope that everyone had a productive and restful week. This week was insane. I went through Monday like a champion only to find out I was developing a really bad cold. That cold got worse and kept me out of school for the entire middle of the week. This gave me a lot of reflection time on how I want to better my life and work on my routine. It also made me realize that I was burning a little too hot and needed to cool down a little and slow my pace. I have always had a problem with getting overwhelmed and I am thankful my body recognized I needed a breather and gave me the opportunity to take one.          That being said, this was my last week of journaling and poetry. Overall, I think I have found a love for journaling. I plan on continuing journaling mo...
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Week 3: Journaling and Poetry

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  **************                 Hello Again!              ************** 09-18-2022          I hope everyone has had a wonderful week and weekend. This week was harder on me than the rest. I got sick a little bit earlier in the week and have been recovering from it ever since. It took a lot of energy out of me and made me behind on a couple of assignments. Because of this, I was only able to work on my Creative Practice project twice this week. While that is under my goal, I am thankful I was able to do two activities rather than one. I am hoping that next week I can do three to four again and stay on track.                       I feel that overall this week, because of the sickness and exhaustion, it was harder to relax when reading and writing. I feel like there wasn't a moment when my brain really shut off, ev...
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