Mountain troll.
Again I cheated. Was traveling, and didn’t draw at all this day.
I visited my friend Jai, who let me scan this watercolor I gave her before I started scanning my work.
The actual date on this was in 2004.
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eyespider 
Rather than this being “cheating” (I’m guessing by that you mean you didn’t do “a drawing a day”), maybe you are ready to move into a new phase of your re-connection with your work. Maybe you are ready to define the task differently. I am not saying this so that you go against yourself or so that you stop drawing; rather that when you say “cheat,” I hear a judgement. When I see your work, I see no room for you to judge yourself in any way that is harmful or negative or less than giving yourself the greatest blessing for expressing your gifts and talents and inner life. OKAY? Okay. I think I’m done with my rant and hope it makes sense and is understood in the way I intend.
Your work is beautiful and amazing and I am grateful for it. Thank you, Kate!
I thank you for our comments on ‘cheating’. I have a set of ‘rules’ for this drawing practice, as guides to keep me focused on my intention. Which is basically to spend time every day drawing, without particular plan, responding in a meditative way to whatever’s up . Keeping to my rules has made me move past a lot of self-judgments like the ones you’ve called me on. You are right, when I use those terms I validate those judgments not only for myself but for anyone else who wants to have such a practice . I’ll have to think on that!