Finding Time: can feel challenging but I read about a creative who works on her sketchbook while waiting for something to heat up in the microwave! Are there little pockets of time you that work for you?
Warm Up Exercise: Have you made your mark yet (don't overthink it, just do it :))? The color pink popped into my mind when I was getting ready to do mine so I used a dry brush and applied some pink acrylic paint onto my sketchbook.
Here's what Olive (left, green) and Tyra (right, blue) created for their first marks! I really like the placement and shape of Olive's. Tyra had been wanting to try the plastic wrap/marker/water technique and took this opportunity to do that: