COVID-19 – Stay Home and Draw YEG

I started working from home March 13, 2020 once COVID-19 preparations began in earnest at my workplace. It’s been a adjustment (both weird as well as kinda good) and its been emotional too, if I’m being honest. I’m wrestling with my worry – for my family overseas, friends who own their own businesses, work in private industry, or have jobs in the public sector, and co-workers (and friends) in post-secondary. Everyone is already feeling reverberations of the economic recession and COVID-19 fears. It’s a lot. What do we need in times of strife? Art. And hugs. And exercise.

It’s been a bit over a week and to keep busy I’m participating in an Instagram drawing community organized by Edmonton artist, Emily Chu.

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So here are mine, right from my sketchbook. Hopefully, I’ll keep going and give a weekly recap on the blog as we move forward with this new, fragile ‘normal’.

You can see I’m getting better at scanning my work as I moved through the week. Hooray! If you want to see any of these larger, you can right click and view in a separate tab.

Thanks for all the encouragement on Instagram this week, friends!