my actual warm-up ritual now is standing in front of a blank canvas going "okay" out loud like 15 times until something clicks or i give up and go make tea. the tea is usually the real warm-up. i've decided this is normal and good.

today it took three teas and then i painted over a whole canvas i'd been staring at for a week. which i think means the ritual works? or means i should've started with tea. hard to say. anyway the thing is orange now and it's better.

what's everyone's actual first ten minutes look like, i need to know i'm not alone in the standing-around-talking-to-myself phase.