Daily Creativity: Lush Bath time – Love Your Body

I love Lush Bath products, and tonight I had a good soak (always good on Aikido nights), as I looked down at myself in the bath I was reminded of the Venus of Willendorf. Many believe the statue was created as a self portrait, that the perspective suggests someone looking down at themselves and gathering the proportions from the neck down. I thought of that as I looked at myself in the bath and tried to remember the shapes that made up my body for drawing later. I’m not sure I got where my knees were bent right, it was from memory so that can be hard. I was sitting up keeping my legs in the water to let the heat work on my knees.  I also noticed how the pink water created an illusion that the negative space around my body was more noticeable than my body, so I thought to recreate that in the drawing. Using the colors of the bath bomb I recreated the image as best I could. This year my art has become a lot more self referential, which makes me feel really vulnerable. Though I think drawing abstract lets me maintain a little privacy.  It’s a strange feeling sharing this with the world, and yet it feels really good to appreciate myself like this, to find the beauty in the shapes that make up me.

5×7 Colored Pencils on Paper, part of the Love Your Body series