Candice DeWitt

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    Peonies

    August 19, 2024 /

    This paper is definitely not meant for paint, but is handling it a lot better than I thought it would. I’m not as practiced with acrylic painting/blending/layering, but I don’t think I did too terrible overall. I’m trying something new, now that school is back in session for the kiddo, and trying to wean myself off social media in favor of things that are more productive, constructive, or creative. So this morning, instead of getting onto my laptop to check email and wind up scrolling for far too long, I spent about 2 hours total sketching out and then painting this. And then I went off to clean the living…

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    I forget tea exists until the weather gets cool again

    August 19, 2024 /

    The other day, I made myself a cup of tea at work. I was out of coffee, feeling run down and coughing, and really needed something warm to soothe my throat. While still August and technically summer, there’s a crisp-ness in the air that always lets me know fall is on the way, and a cup of tea sounded suddenly like the most enticing thing in the world. Anyway, I tried some acrylic paint in this cheap Rae Dunn branded sketchbook I picked up on clearance at TJMaxx. I greatly dislike the Rae Dunn style/brand and find the single word style emblazoned on every damn piece insufferable, but I couldn’t…

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    Death B4 Keurig

    August 13, 2024 /

    Keurig pod coffees produce coffee-flavored tea. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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    Procrasti-doodle

    August 10, 2024 /

    Today is one of those days where I want nothing more than to be in bed, cuddled up with my cats and a book to nap off and on while I weather this cold that’s coming on. Unfortunately for me, with adult responsibilities and all, I’m at the yarn shop bored out of my mind. Sure, there’s always something to do – knitting to work on, shop planning and ordering, etc. But my body wants rest, so I’m muddling thru my day today.

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    I believe you have my stapler

    August 6, 2024 /

    When the drawing prompt is “staple” and you’ve watched Office Space more times than you can count, you draw Milton. Kind of excited with how well I managed to do on this one. There’s some things that aren’t quite right, of course, but compared to 3 years ago when I first started trying to draw? Leagues better!

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    Hello, 40

    July 17, 2024 /

    I hit a milestone this month. 4 decades, to be exact. I’ve been telling people for months about how excited I was for this birthday – and I meant it. And it turned out to be the best damn birthday I’ve ever had. Most years I spend my birthday feeling very blah, full of feelings and moodiness. I think, in hindsight, it’s because most years my birthday has felt like an afterthought because it falls on the 3rd and, inevitably, coincides with everyone else’s holiday weekend plans for 4th of July. (Or, in my family, long holiday weekends meant my parents trying to knock out house projects, so my birthday…

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    This stupid squirrel

    May 23, 2024 /

    Like pretty much any neighborhood in Ohio, we have lots of squirrels. They, for the most part, keep to themselves, but sometimes they steal food from our garden. It’s fine, really, because we plant a LOT of food and rather than get annoyed by nature nature-ing, I consider it the cost of living on this planet alongside our furry feral friends. When I moved my desk setup in the home office to face the back window, I knew it would likely inspire me to do some drawings. I assumed I’d see butterflies on flowers, or maybe some unique birds that happened to be migrating through the area. Perhaps I’d come…

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    Making good on that “drawing bigger” goal

    March 29, 2024 /

    Well, I did it. I bought myself a large sketchbook – larger than I’ve ever attempted – and put pencil to paper to try to draw something bigger and with more of a full “scene” to it. And, well, it’s huge. It felt overly intimidating at first, but once I got into it it got easier. This mouse is about 10″ tall, in all, which feels ginormous. And then, because I figured what’s the worst that could happen, I took watercolor to the paper. Granted, this is mixed media paper, so it’s not exactly great for watercolors. But I also didn’t totally care because this is all experimentation, anyway, and…

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    I should have let my fear go

    March 6, 2024 /

    I ventured north with a friend to the Kingwood Center Gardens to see their early spring blooms and orchids in the greenhouses on Monday, which was lovely. Snowdrops, some early daffodils, hellebores, and a few other early bloomers were all putting on a show, their colors bright against the dull brown of the earth. Cardinals were flitting to and fro, stunning sapphire peacocks roamed the yard, and ducks swam in the small pond while small children fed quarters into the corn dispenser to haphazardly throw at them. 70 degrees and sunny. Spring, if not here officially, is nearby. We both packed our sketchbooks in case we wanted to sit and…

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    Favorite sketches from 2023

    December 8, 2023 /

    Two years ago, at the end of 2021, I decided that 2022 was going to be the year of creating differently. I had turned my creative hobby of choice, knitting, into a full-fledged business as a brick-and-mortar yarn shop and was in desperate need of some sort of other creative outlet. Knitting all day every day, both at work and at home, was wearing on me and I was finding myself uninspired and, frankly, struggling to enjoy life. Learning to draw filled that void and gave me the break I needed, creatively speaking. It gave me the space I needed to take my mind off the stresses of business and…

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Hi! I'm Candice. I'm a 40ish elder millennial who bakes, gardens, knits, and makes mediocre art and... well, I have a lot of hobbies. I occasionally blog in an attempt to hold onto this archaic form of the golden age of internet communication whether anyone reads it or not.

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