Estella Tse 1/21/26 Estella Tse 1/21/26

Integrity

Doing what’s right even when it’s hard

Morning meditations.
Doodling a shrub in the neighbor’s yard. Ponderings.

Estella Tse 1/20/26 Estella Tse 1/20/26

Serene Scene at a Canyon

I’m still rusty from drawing outta my imagination. This is a quickie doodle while doing meditation, still using this art generator prompt.

I feel like there’s so much chunky rust to break off. I haven’t gotten into day-to-day drawing yet but I’m not trying to be too hard on myself. Slowly but surely.

I do feel the difference on the days I meditate + draw versus when I don’t.

It’s easy to skip it. It’s easy to convince myself there’s something more important, like an email, a deadline, an Instagram DM lol

But my wiser self knows that there’s few things more fruitful than me taking a quiet few mins to sit with myself, express an idea, to keep practicing that every day -> and publishing it to completely my full creative cycle.

Onward!

Estella Tse 1/19/26 Estella Tse 1/19/26

Mixed Brain Stew

Oh - no wonder it feels like brain stew!

It’s like I have a bajillion thoughts and feelings happening at once - and it’s all in disconcerting mashed synchronicity lol

One of the skills I’ve learned from art therapy is even when it’s bleggghh and I’m feeling bluarrrggghhh, I spend a few mins to get it out of my body. Let my impulses lead: what medium do I want to use? what color? what shape? what mark next? And just let it play out, step by step.

And …. I do feel better afterwards.

The process of externalizing it out of me helps
The process of separating out each of the feelings / thoughts helps
Then being able to LOOK at it objectively outside of myself helps

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Favorite Time of Day

I’m digging just the loose red pen doodles. I’m listening to meditations while I do this. I didn’t want to “over commit” with the black pen today - it came out so much more pronounced than I intended. Mostly because I was trying out a new black felt tip pen.

I stuck with a wizardy character - with a cane.

My favorite time of day?
The best days are watching the sunset over the Pacific Ocean. Never gets old.

Estella Tse 1/5/26 Estella Tse 1/5/26

A Magician in the Woods

I know I’m at a point with my creative practice where I need to strengthen my drawing skills again. I’ve been mostly focusing on watercolor in 2025 for fluid and freeing expression. And I want to strengthen my articulation of moments, scenes, storytelling.

Obviously, I have a tremendous amount of skill illustrating a la ArtCenter and professional life.

But who am I and how do I want to articulate marks on a page?
This will be my investigation and inward exploration.