Wild Strokes - Making Of a Set of Digital Brushes from Nature

Spring was finally banging at my door after a long dark winter, so I took some walks in the woods close to home, breathing in the season full of promises and hope, taking things with a new slower pace. I collected herbs and flowers, and once back in my home studio, I used them as brushes to imprint some traces and textures on the page. That alone was such a meditative process, embracing the chaos that ran the marks on paper left behind by petals and time leaves. I then made a set of digital brushes to bring some of this analog delicate beauty into my daily digital practice. I like the fact that in this way, I managed to make delicate living little things into something timeless, leaving a mark in my future creations. I want to make this process a routine, in a ritual, celebrating imperfection, casuality, and analog truth, bringing them into my work. I want to use this practice as a way to see my surroundings with new eyes, and celebrate my local environment. Maybe that's for today my answer, in a fast-paced world that relegates all the possible tasks and machines, I want to react with slowness and poetry, gentle flowers, silent strokes of ink.