I’ve recently developed a habit of obsessively drawing on place-mats at our favorite local restaurant in town – a little locally sourced burger joint that we eat at about once a week. They give me crayons… I cannot resist the lure of crayons. It is far too ingrained in every fiber of my being to draw when presented with crayons.
It started simply enough… 
And then they started to give me crayons… 
And somewhere along the line I started to really get into it… 
And now while the hubby drinks his craft beer, I sip tea and draw things like this…
And even the people that work there… 
It’s surprisingly relaxing and cathartic to draw something in a fleeting and almost stream-of-consciousness fit of creativity knowing that you are releasing it into the world. It’s made me want to start creating gorilla-style mail art again – especially as we get WAY too much unsolicited junk mail as is.
Very random, I know… but it’s becoming a part of my routine and I rather enjoy it so I thought I’d share – next time you have a paper place-mat in front of you, use it!
I will be collecting these on Instagram along with other assorted tidbits from my teaching life, visual detritus I find interesting, and of course… cats. Follow me @mlevacy
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