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May Watercolor Practice: From Seed

May Watercolor Practice: From Seed

A creative check-in for what wants to take root

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Jaime Reynolds [Artist]
May 12, 2025
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This month’s theme is Becoming Over Belonging — the difference between making yourself fit and making yourself known.

It’s easy to spend years learning how to belong — to systems, to expectations, to what other people think is “good” or “acceptable.”

But if belonging costs you your voice, your creative spark, or your weird, funny ideas? That’s not belonging. That’s shrinking.

And I don’t want to shrink anymore.

So we’re starting where most creative things do: with a seed.


The Full Moon Practice:

The Seed Stage — What Are You Planting?
A watercolor exploration of the early phase of becoming. How fitting that this full moon is named “Flower Moon”. Come paint some poppy seedpods with me ~ and let’s prepare for what we want to see bloom in our lives.

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