Rolling into the weekend

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I love age 2. There’s such a sense of an overflow of personhood. He’s somehow fully a baby and fully a little boy at the same time in one little cute body. And now he says, “Come on, Petey!” #sweeteypetey 🐌 🐶

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Valentine garden 🌸 🌺 🌹

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Sometimes I’ll paint something really quickly and I don’t even really like the end result (for example, here I needed more complex color and I don’t like the 50/50 composition) but it’s like my hands wouldn’t allow my brain enough time to even think through those things. I know I’m not alone in this. Sometimes you just get overtaken by a spirit and can’t relax til it can come through your hands and paintbrush...it doesn’t even really care how.

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Painting from the North American Wildlife book. Helen’s favorite plant is the Venus flytrap! Right now she’s painting more flies who are about to get eaten.

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The only kind of flowers that can survive in my house are painted ones.

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Museum sketching. I even got asked where I was in school! 👊🏻#30sarethenew20s

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Helen’s first score: “Great Golly” #mixedmediamonday

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