Quarantine Journals - Day 8
So I am back in Canada but have to sustain self-quarantine in a hotel for 14 days. That being said, what a great day to start a daily journal. I signed up to Isolation Journals where everyday it sends out a journal prompt. I decided to give it a try and I am writing these not in any order that was sent to me but based on random.
Prompt: Close your eyes and draw a giraffe. Your drawing can be of the giraffe’s bust or its full body. It can be in a setting or alone on the page. If you're feeling bold, you can attempt a tower of giraffes.
When you finish, open your eyes and write about your giraffe. What questions and ideas came up? How does your drawing compare to the image you had in your head? What did this exercise reveal—maybe something about your creative practice? Or something about control—and what it’s like to cede it? About trust?
One, two, three little babies and a big giraffe. I don’t think I ever drew giraffes before, even with my eyes open. So when I was imaging how to draw it i just decided to draw a bunch of lower case q’s (my q’s have a big tail that wraps around). Then I hope for the best to where I place the legs. I didn’t add any face features or their famous ears. So basically it’s not great. But for some reasons I didn’t want to draw just one but a whole batch(?) of them. I don’t necessarily think these babies are related or related to the big giraffe. I think I will reserve the relationship for our imaginations. I also did this on an ipad versus on paper, which I would feel like I could have done better on paper because the friction will allow me a bit more control of what was drawn. I was actually watching an oil painting video earlier and indeed I do miss the feeling of applying different pressures to brushes and canvas to create certain looks. Although digital painting is much more convenient, it lacks that spontaneous surprises that a real brush and canvas can produce.
As you can see I don’t actually care for control, that’s why I like drawing more than colouring. And I just trust my hand 🤚 to do it’s magic.