Getting Started

Thanks to Melanie Testa's youtube videos I got started with some "warm-ups," specifically drawing with the non-dominant hand. My personal brain doesn't know which side is dominant as I am righthanded but left eye dominant and perform many tasks as a leftie. I found my left hand to be surprisingly cooperative for this task and even took my sketchbook along to continue the practice while I got new tires put on my car. Here are some of the results:

I even worked on writing my name and the alphabet as it wouldn't hurt to have this skill in case the right hand ever got into trouble. This was a great exercise to do and I plan to continue getting my left hand more talented! You might notice that a lot of the designs are repetitive curliques. This is a constant practice for me, to work on potential quilting paterns for free-motion quilting. They need to be one continuous line so it sometimes helps to work on drawing a pattern to figure out the lines. So give your non-dominant hand a turn with the pens and pencils to see what you come up with!