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Sketchbooking with purpose

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Can you fix an art print with color pencils? I just did

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Doom scrolling? Art to the rescue

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How sketchbooking allows me to let go and just create

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The magic of the blending pencil

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Back to watercolors for day 5 of my week-long sketchbook challenge

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Day 4 of my sketchbook challenge–back to the colored pencils

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Struggling with colored pencils on textured paper? An easy tip to make it work

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Bokeh effect fail…or maybe not? How I kept going and surprised myself

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Three attempts at following a YouTube watercolor tutorial…& what I learned along the way