Hello from the other siddeeeeee
hello and I am back again! So in the past few days, My mind has been elsewhere. My grandmother passed away just this October 30 and my brain really hasn't coped up yet. But it's only now that I can truly feel and grieve over everything because I've been busy taking care of her papers along with my aunts and uncles.
This prompt... Frost, close to frozen made me think of the state she was currently in: frozen in a box. but more than being frozen in a box, her hands are frosty cold. the same warm hand that always made sure i was fed and the same warm hand that always caressed and pinched my cheeks are now covered in frosts so I decided to focus on that and the butterflies she loved so much.
Materials: blue ink, blue pen and white gel pen
Duration: 3 hours
So I did this in the very short break I had from running around and cooking for the wake. The whole family decided I cook because I was the one that always cooked side by side with my grandmother and most of her recipes, she taught me so the taste had of my cooking had always been similar to hers but not exactly her flavor. my grandma had a different taste to her cooking.
anyways, to my process.
I started off with blue inked paper that I left to dry while I was cooking everyone's lunch. I took a while thinking about the concept because I wanted to put both butterflies and her hand in this.
Did you guys know that being visited by butterflies may mean that your loved one may be visiting you too.
An hour in, I had already inked a lot of the drawing in a darker blue and started detailing in with my lighter blue pen. I was still a little too lazy to do the wing details in but i didn't really have much of a choice because I'll be watching over my grandmother.
then when I finally had the will to work on the details, this is how it came out, and I thought it came out pretty nice and frosty. but honestly this is just me trying to distract myself from the loss. And I'll probably use art as a coping mechanism again for the next few days because I need the some sort of emotional relief because I can't keep crying over this 馃槶
This is all from me, we're still trying to help with the wake and all the food and all. Hopefully I can write again tomorrow
