I feel as though I have already learned a lot through my mid-year quest to have a new experience each week, and this week I learned that one of my good friends has an on-going quest of her own.
My friend Sara recently showed me her summer to-do list, which includes everything from going to the beach to writing a rap and recording a music video.
I loved that she had a list of her own. It’s been so fun for me to add new things to my regular routine and drag my friends along with me to do all these random things, and I had no idea that someone close to me was pursuing a similar goal.
Because the summer is sadly drawing to an end and many of her checkboxes are still empty, I decided to knock something off the list for her, and I picked painting on a canvas. I just didn’t tell her I was doing so.
We planned on meeting up for happy hour on an outside patio with two of our other friends, and I surprised them by bringing four small canvases with four paint markers.
We each took a canvas and marker and began making abstract designs. After some time, we each rotated our pens so that by the end of our rotations we each used all four colors.
My friend was so excited that I took it upon myself to randomly bring some art supplies to our regular get-together, and overall it went really well. It was reminiscent of a kindergarten class, especially with half of the group looking at the girl’s design next to her and copying elements from it. On the upside to that, the canvas pieces surprisingly went fairly well together when stacked up next to each other.
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Alaina O'Neal 