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This is a reply to @Lamont D
Here's my two penny worth on this.
@Lamont D said "The artwork on this thread is unbelievable, I am so jealous about your creativity. I am also angry that I can't replicate my younger days and my drawing. Because of my arthritis!
I might try my hand at painting by number, "
I do not know what you used to do in your younger days. I cannot draw with the arthritis in my hands the way I did in the 1970s. (I used to illustrate poetry books amongst other things, very detailed black line work, and I was very upset when over the years I couldn't do that any more). There's no way I can replicate those drawings, because I do not have control because my hand shakes now... even with digital work, I cannot hold a digital stylus to draw with. I use my fingers to draw, so my finger does all the work on the screen. So keeping my fingers are actually on the screen helps the stability of my hand I don't shake my hand, but there's a few jumps and bounces with my hands sometimes, but there is usually the undo function digitally.
My actual paintings reflect that I cannot do that fine line drawing any more. I was very upset for a long time that I couldn't do the fine detailed drawings and watercolours of the Liverpool ferry boats any more. I just couldn't accept it. I had lost a part of me. But we have to adapt as our bodies don't obey us as we get older.
You have your own creativity within you. Use that as a meditation, a calming technique. I presume you have a tablet or phone. That is always to hand, no preparing. Find some apps, even children's drawing apps. I started with them in 2010, and was still using them 5 years later....I couldn't figure out Procreate or the other 'fancy' grown up drawing and painting apps for a long time. I still struggle trying to understand where to figure out what to do. I find a few brushstrokes within them, and bit by bit I discover more. I have only just recently worked out layers and how they help me digitally painting. In 2010, no amount of reading or instructions helped me figure layers out. Now I am thinking, why couldn't I understand that 13 years ago. I am a slow learner, but I get there oneday.
What do you write with? A biro, a fountain pen? Then doodle and draw with that. I need something round the barrel to get a good grip or I cannot hold it. I make a hole in a cat's foam play ball, or my best is to use a foam covered wire hair curler, wrapped around the barrel. Some biros have 4 different colours or more. That means I only have to wrap one biro barrel.
And please post on here what you do (I know I shouldn't push that, but I have a tendency to say share it).
Thanks for the creative and enjoy the sun. 
