17 Comments
User's avatar
hippo fait des trucs's avatar

Oh the Strawberry Shortcake suitcase!!! What a cute idea 🍓👏🏻

Expand full comment
Melissa Martin's avatar

Anything can be made a palette!

Expand full comment
hippo fait des trucs's avatar

You are right!

Expand full comment
Meli’s World: Songs & Sketches's avatar

Love your version of the guys on the st Lawrence!!

Expand full comment
Melissa Martin's avatar

Thanks Meli! 🤗💖✨

Expand full comment
Teresa Barroso's avatar

How was the live drawing? The tiny strawberry palette is too cuteee 😍🍓 happy belated birthday to Ray!

Expand full comment
Melissa Martin's avatar

Ray says thank you! 🤗💖✨ I didn’t actually do any of the live drawing last night. When I got there it was so busy that I couldn’t find space to set up. A great problem to have for the party! So I just relaxed and enjoyed the night.

Expand full comment
Teresa Barroso's avatar

Well you had fun in another way! 😊

Expand full comment
Louise Rising Art's avatar

So much lovely art. Your cake for Ray’s Birthday looks great 🎂 Hope he had a good day.

The limited strokes is such a tough challenge. Good to set limitations sometimes. Your self portraits always amaze me! 😍

Expand full comment
Melissa Martin's avatar

Thank you Louise! 🤗💖✨

Expand full comment
Marcy's avatar

Love your dancing groundhog, Melissa! Thanks for the mention. 😃 The little strawberry suitcase palette is adorable!

Expand full comment
Melissa Martin's avatar

Thanks Marcy! 🤗💖✨

Expand full comment
Jana Bouc's avatar

It’s so fun to discover that you too have repurposed a Hobonichi 5 year journal into a daily self portrait journal. I’m inspired by how you vary the approach and materials for each sketch.

I started out doing actual 5-year journaling thing in 2022. Mid-2023 I realized the 5-year thing wasn’t enough space for me so I started using it for daily Wordle word of the day illustrations instead. I eventually moved that to a regular A4 Hobo journal that I also used for dream illustrations and all the usual journaling stuff.

Last month I picked up the abandoned A5 5-year and started using it to do a nightly self portrait before bed. So many drawings of tired, sleepy me. 🥱😹

Expand full comment
Melissa Martin's avatar

Thanks Jana! 🤗💖✨ I like it for my self portraits! I actually have a sketchbook tour of my first full year on my YouTube channel

Expand full comment
Jana Bouc's avatar

Yes! I found it and it’s wonderful!

Expand full comment
Volta's avatar

Omg love the disco animals! So fun! I need to watch the replay asap!

Expand full comment
Melissa Martin's avatar

The photos were so fun!

Expand full comment