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6:06 PM, Tuesday March 4th 2025
This is so cute! I love your plants in lesson 3 as well.
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9:38 AM, Thursday March 6th 2025
:0000 thank you so much! ???? I was just feeling pretty down about art right now, and your comment made my day :) Oh, and I took a look at your art and woww, I admire your charcoal work, especially the contrasts in values and how you rendered the still lifes!
2:50 PM, Tuesday March 11th 2025
thank you for your kind words! My friend got a small sketchbook that she committed to filling out. She said it helped to fill out the whole thing. It was impossible to feel down on her art as a result because if she didn't like one sketch, she just turned the page until she got to her favorite ones ;-)
7:37 AM, Wednesday March 12th 2025
Oooo, I'm getting so close to filling out a whole sketchbook! Thanks for that :)
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