My First PleinAirpril (#11)

It is now May (Cue NSync song) and I've just taken a couple days of rest from completing my FIRST PleinAirpril challenge! Everytime I've seen entries in the past for this community event, I've always felt intimidated. I mean, one painting a day?! No way I can do it!

Well, I don't exactly remember what was going through my head at the time, but before I knew it, I posted on the 1st with a piece.

The character is my dnd character and the setting is based on a real cave in Italy!

And then, after that I posted another. And after that I posted again (Although I did pull some loooong nights to keep up). And before I knew it, it had been 2 weeks of this! I think week 2 was when I started hitting my stride and growing more confident. I didn't feel the need to strive for the best painting ever, just to complete something by the end of the day (or early morning the day after lol).

The best boi<3

This was based off of an old photo my Grandpa gave to me. They visited the Art Museum back in 1962. I wanted to capture how happy they looked<3

In addition, although I learned to embrace the process of quick-decision making each day, there were 2 particular days where I took extra care to make pieces I was proud of. My late grandparents were both born in April, and my late dog Max was also an April baby; I wanted to create a painting to pay tribute to them. Definitely got emotional doing both, but it was on my list for AWHILE and I found it very cathartic<3

The last piece done. I wanted to end on a rainbow in Kauai, from back in 2025:) If you ever go, I recommend the botanical gardens!!!!

 I'm sad it's over, but I'm so grateful I got to meet/support other fellow painters online, and grow in my confidence to engage on socials.

Now, I feel a surge in motivation to do some more applying, as well as jumping back into projects on my list that I want to finish this year! Let's do this!

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In other news, I've also been playing FF7 Remake, which I started a couple years ago, only to pick back up from where I left off (which was like 40 min in lol). But now I'm at the final chapter and I LOVE IT!!!! I had a bit of an obsession with Cloud back in high school. I saw Advent Children, had no idea what was going on but loved the animation!

Happy Gaming!