After completing Find Your Joy (FYJ) in December 2025, I signed up for Momentum, a follow-on to FYJ that lasts six months. It is intended as a springboard for students to identify and navigate our own creative path (clarifying our preferences, likes, etc.); areas of interest/focus for doing our work; practicing a system for exploring new ideas, benching ways of working that don't work or yield successful results, or have worn out their welcome; and, working through blocks, negative thinking, and the things we may have repressed that can surface during the creative process. So far, students have had exercises to draw our chosen subject, explore constraints, and to simply play. My chosen subject was tree bark (initially Redwood), but the Redwood bark is too dense, layered and fibrous to draw easily. So, I drew the rings of a Redwood tree stump that includes the bark edging. The image (above left) was created by doing a blind contour in white pen first (blind...