133. Let's tell tiny stories!
the storytelling thread for June.
Dear Reader,
Once again it is time to tell tiny stories!
The rules are simple: Pick a tiny person below that you, for some reason, identify with. Identify that reason. Write for your tiny person a tiny story in the comments. Come back after some time to read the stories of other readers. Together let us rejoice in the creative possibilities of just some lines scratched with ink.
Best stories will receive SneakyArt at their mailing address, no matter where they live in the world. I am giving away art for free all year!
I was in a cafe on a rainy day when I thought about this word - sonder.
Tell a tiny story of someone you noticed at a cafe.
Another day at another cafe, but this time it was sunny and everyone sat outside.
Who are the people at cafes in your neighbourhood? Where do they wait to go, impatiently, under a traffic light?
When we arrived in Vancouver in 2021, we quarantined for 14 days at a BNB in East Vancouver. Outside our window every morning, rain or shine, I would see a lady walk up to the bench and throw chunks of bread for the birds.
Hundreds of crows and sea-gulls would congregate every morning in anticipation of her arrival. She showed up every single day that we stayed there.
I wonder if she has a tiny story.
This is the other sight I saw every day of quarantine - children from a local pre-school playing in the park. They were also there every day, rain or shine.
Children are literally some of the tiniest people in the world. They live inside tiny worlds too, often created entirely within their imagination. Sometimes that world is just a playground. Outside this world, nothing else exists.
Tell a tiny story of tiny children.
At a cafe this month, I saw a scone exchange hands.
I have reason to believe it contained blueberry jam.
Do you have a tiny story about jam? Or scones?
💻 Zoom Hangout, Sun 26 June
There are a few seats left on this Sunday’s Zoom Hangout. I will be live-drawing while answering your questions about drawing style, recent sketches, upcoming workshops, and the SneakyArt Podcast.
The event is FREE but with limited seats. Hurry and grab a seat below!
✍🏼 Zoom Workshop
I am doing Zoom-based workshops again this year, starting next month.
The promise of the workshop is simple -
You will learn to draw people in 60 seconds or less.
This class is for anyone that wants to draw, regardless of skill level. If you struggle to draw people, this workshop is for you!
I am still figuring out the exact dates and how they will balance against travel plans. More info later this week.
But I am offering a free seat to anyone that becomes a SneakyArt Insider this month. Sign up using the annual subscription to support my work as well as book your seat for this workshop!
In the cafe of a used bookstore next to a roaring waterfall, a five year old boy next to me tells his mother “sometimes when I don’t know what to say I just saw JAWS!”
I can’t make this one but hope to catch another!