[wistful-academia]

home with my art supplies!!! but can’t find the watercolours i was waiting for, i think they may be up the loft :( so instead i tried to draw with soft pastels (i am not used to using pastels at ALL)

[wistful-academia]

painted more today :)) so excited to get home to my actual art supplies and be able to properly try and teach myself how to paint watercolour well

this was before i did the fineliner and i’m kind of wishing i’d kept it like that (and just added a bit more, like the trunks, with paint), not because it was better before but because i don’t think it was as bad as i thought it was, and i do prefer the vibe of just watercolour. a scribbly sketch in pen over it is just my safety net bc i learnt through practice when i was doing gcse art that a mediocre sketch over a mediocre painting makes it look better than either part is individually

[wistful-academia]

update i just spent hours painting this single leaf. i was vibing.

[wistful-academia]

painted more today :)) so excited to get home to my actual art supplies and be able to properly try and teach myself how to paint watercolour well

this was before i did the fineliner and i’m kind of wishing i’d kept it like that (and just added a bit more, like the trunks, with paint), not because it was better before but because i don’t think it was as bad as i thought it was, and i do prefer the vibe of just watercolour. a scribbly sketch in pen over it is just my safety net bc i learnt through practice when i was doing gcse art that a mediocre sketch over a mediocre painting makes it look better than either part is individually

[wistful-academia]

teaching myself how to paint with this silly little travel watercolour set i got from flying tiger

[cozy-brew]

journaling is such a cozy activity to do :)

Source

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: fieldnotesbyfi

[shakespearesdaughters]

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Love Languages

Quality Time

Giving their partner their undivided attention and spending time with each other.

putting their phones away to focus on each other

going on a picknick in the middle of the work week

asking thoughtful questions while talking

playing basketball together

having conversations over dinner

going on a hike together

each of them planning dates for them

baking or cooking together

creating a daily ritual

going out for a coffee together

trying out new activities together

going on regular walks with each other

sitting down to listen about the day each of them had

doing each other's hobby with each other from time to time

More: Date Masterpost

[wistful-academia]

if you get this, answer with three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs! anon or not, doesn't matter, let's get to know the person behind the blog <3 (absolutely no pressure)

oh i like these things!!

1. one of my favourite things to do is swing dance (mainly lindy hop but also charleston and collegiate shag), i started it when i started uni and i love it so so so much i’ve made so many friends there!!! i mostly follow but i started leading recently and i’ve been having so much fun switching, i’m gonna miss my uk swing dance buddies when i go on year abroad

2. i lived right by the sea my whole life until moving to uni (you can see it from my bedroom window and hear the waves from the back door) and i cannot imagine permanently living anywhere inland, when i don’t come home from uni for a while i have to take a trip or two to the coast over there cos i miss the sound and sight of the sea too much

3. i don’t think i’ve ever fallen out or argued with any friend since i was like 6 or 7 (and even then it was just one friend who could be a bit dramatic, it never lasted longer than a day), like i’ve had the same best friend for 16.5 years and i can’t think of a single time we’ve argued - i’ve seen people say that’s weird and not right (not about us specifically but in general about never ever arguing with your best friend) but i never understood that? i get that you can argue and make up and it be good but we just… never have anything to argue about

[morepeachyogurt]

marlena by julie buntin

[lalalloronaa-deactivated2024041]

i sometimes forget that this is everyone’s first time on earth too. like. this is my first time seeing a butterfly this color. but its that little girl’s first time seeing any butterfly, ever. and i accidentally left a bag of groceries at the store after paying and now i’m cursing under my breath and it’s like. there a thousand other people out there who did that today too. and a thousand more from yesterday. and. like. we’re not actually alone. and we’re not actually failing. at least not in a way that a few billion people haven’t before you

[greenacademian]

Let’s get lost together

[madgirlscosm-deactivated2024052]

I'm only poetry, soul, nothing else.

- Vladimir Mayakovsky

[lanndscape]

[bakwaaas]

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

[stuckinapril]

are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

[joytri]

a pounding in my heart