So over the last week I have been gifted many art supplies off my amazon wish list - the paints and inks shown, as well as several large 18x24 canvas' & a pack of small windsor and newton canvas'. (thankyou so much)! I had wanted to play on canvas for the summer - this fairyland I live in is abundant with inspiration. Here are my first two attempts on canvas - not terrible, i say, considering canvas is alien to me and I didnt realize until the larger one that erasing wasnt possible - one hole evolved this way, another, and i decided to crochet webs into them.





Sepia walnut ink, windsor and newton gold ink, prisma charcoal pencil and graphite.



(fresh sugar free lemonade & pomegranate black tea!)



I got to do a vocal track for ryan, and we shot the footage together. So exciting, I love this song. try to guess what movie line is being quoted :D

We have been taking long, four hour hikes around the area, coming home and napping (after literally four hours of walking in the sun falling asleep in ryan's armpitt fees so good). Making popsicles at home and fresh lemonade, brussel sprouts and spinach for dinner, pistachio icecream. Collecting from the droves of wild lilac and mossy fields. Pomegranate soap and black tea. Got everything washed this weekend, fluffy towels, clean bedsheets. Art supplies this week and toying with new mediums. Lots of grimes.

My auntie recently divulged much information about our family history to me and sent cencus scans all the way back to 1910 - apparently my great grandmother's name was dubroshka polye - her father was a vet in chernigov and when he was killed by reds she fled to germany - married my great grandfather, jacob fuchs. They fled germany together and came to New york, changed their last name to fox (still our family name) and had a nice little yiddish life in the bronx. How romantic! I always knew about the german heritage but was largely unaware of the russian, which I think is so fantastic! Her name was so beautiful - if i have a daughter one day i want to name her dubroshka-iska - my actual name, jessica, was created by Shakespeare for a jewish character in merchant of venice, and it's believed the name was derived from the biblical iskah - translations changed it to Jeska, which became jessica when he was looking for a shylock name. I have often considered changing my legal name to iskah, it's ryan's petname for me - but i think it would go so well with my great grandmother's name.



(New york is a canopy of green!!)



(priming canvas!)



I made a witch music box, it's available in the shop