So glad you're managing to keep busy while your foot heals. Hope it doesn't take long before it's back to full strength. Love seeing the changing seasons in your work. Enjoy your sketchbook time!
Hey Cathy, I tried the 15 min pages and was so stressed looking at the time and expecting a worthwhile image to emerge. Alas, scribbles and an obviously unfinished house and garden picture that could only be discerned by me. I think I need 30 min pages. However, I will keep trying. By the way, I’m only an artist in my heart, and what I picture in my mind rarely matches what emerges from my hands…..
Hello Veronica - thanks for your comment. 15 minutes is just my chosen amount of time but 30 seems a lot more do-able. Please enjoy your creative time and do what feels right for you, of course. I find that nearly always when I work in my sketchbooks I try not to be too concerned with outcomes or translating ideas, instead I just go with the flow. It feels less pressured. Enjoy and thanks!
I look forward to every letter from you. It is one of the few that I read regularly. Your letters give me hope, inspiration and the desire to move forward, which is not easy when one is a professional artist.
I hope I will be able to meet you one day and discover your beautiful studio.
Thank you Olga, I will take a look at your artwork when I have a moment - I appreciate you reading here very much and am glad to know you continue to enjoy these studio notes!
Glad you're going slow and taking care of yourself. In love with your crow's face, laughed out loud over the cat in the bed story, imagining how comforting it must be to roll those sweet acorns in your hand, and am reminded how much I have loved a quick morning painting practice over the last couple of years, that it has been neglected in the last months, and that I need to get back to it... Thank you.
I love that painting of the crow so much. I scare my neighbour’s cat, I’ve not had many interactions with it but it is as wary of me as if I had once kicked it. I wish I could ask her what she has against me as most animals seem drawn to me. A neighbourhood cat, I don’t know where it lives, is always trying to climb up onto my shoulders from the wall as I walk down the stairs to my flat. Another makes a dash to try and get through the door as soon as I open it. But Newt looks at me with such suspicion, do I look like someone who hurt her?
Gillian, your lovely comment made me laugh - oh dear, what is that cats see in us? Or are they really just wary creatures, especially the urban dwellers.
I’m so happy to hear that you are staying joyfully occupied during your healing process! I never doubted that you would would find a way to challenge yourself creatively through limitation, and you have embraced it with gusto! October is always a favorite time of year, rich in color and a preface to the coming holiday season. Harvest, bounty, turning inward, hearth and home-- all a different feeling of richness as we spend more time indoors in our own nests. The light has softened, temperatures are cooler, and the skies here have been filled with cloud drama streaking over the plains. It’s also my birthday month, conjuring up wonderful memories of family and childhood. Wishing you fast and complete healing and a blessed feeling of contentment. 🧡🍁
Thank you for your beautiful comment Janet! You always manage to lift my spirit with your kindness and that means a lot. I am learning to slow and be patient - two things I have needed to work on for a while!
So glad you're managing to keep busy while your foot heals. Hope it doesn't take long before it's back to full strength. Love seeing the changing seasons in your work. Enjoy your sketchbook time!
Many thanks Julia, I appreciate your kind comment here very much.
Hey Cathy, I tried the 15 min pages and was so stressed looking at the time and expecting a worthwhile image to emerge. Alas, scribbles and an obviously unfinished house and garden picture that could only be discerned by me. I think I need 30 min pages. However, I will keep trying. By the way, I’m only an artist in my heart, and what I picture in my mind rarely matches what emerges from my hands…..
Hello Veronica - thanks for your comment. 15 minutes is just my chosen amount of time but 30 seems a lot more do-able. Please enjoy your creative time and do what feels right for you, of course. I find that nearly always when I work in my sketchbooks I try not to be too concerned with outcomes or translating ideas, instead I just go with the flow. It feels less pressured. Enjoy and thanks!
I look forward to every letter from you. It is one of the few that I read regularly. Your letters give me hope, inspiration and the desire to move forward, which is not easy when one is a professional artist.
I hope I will be able to meet you one day and discover your beautiful studio.
I wish you all the best.
Best wishes,
Olga
IG: @olgakataevarochford
FB: OlgaKataevaRochfordOfficiel
Thank you Olga, I will take a look at your artwork when I have a moment - I appreciate you reading here very much and am glad to know you continue to enjoy these studio notes!
Glad you're going slow and taking care of yourself. In love with your crow's face, laughed out loud over the cat in the bed story, imagining how comforting it must be to roll those sweet acorns in your hand, and am reminded how much I have loved a quick morning painting practice over the last couple of years, that it has been neglected in the last months, and that I need to get back to it... Thank you.
Thank you Hazel - so very much appreciated! I hope you might get back to your morning painting, if it feels right to do so
I love that painting of the crow so much. I scare my neighbour’s cat, I’ve not had many interactions with it but it is as wary of me as if I had once kicked it. I wish I could ask her what she has against me as most animals seem drawn to me. A neighbourhood cat, I don’t know where it lives, is always trying to climb up onto my shoulders from the wall as I walk down the stairs to my flat. Another makes a dash to try and get through the door as soon as I open it. But Newt looks at me with such suspicion, do I look like someone who hurt her?
Gillian, your lovely comment made me laugh - oh dear, what is that cats see in us? Or are they really just wary creatures, especially the urban dwellers.
I’m so happy to hear that you are staying joyfully occupied during your healing process! I never doubted that you would would find a way to challenge yourself creatively through limitation, and you have embraced it with gusto! October is always a favorite time of year, rich in color and a preface to the coming holiday season. Harvest, bounty, turning inward, hearth and home-- all a different feeling of richness as we spend more time indoors in our own nests. The light has softened, temperatures are cooler, and the skies here have been filled with cloud drama streaking over the plains. It’s also my birthday month, conjuring up wonderful memories of family and childhood. Wishing you fast and complete healing and a blessed feeling of contentment. 🧡🍁
Thank you for your beautiful comment Janet! You always manage to lift my spirit with your kindness and that means a lot. I am learning to slow and be patient - two things I have needed to work on for a while!
Your posts left my heart ♥️ thank you
Speedy healing (heeling? ☺️ ) for your foot
Here’s to autumn 🍂 and 🌰s and acorns and rose hips and cat days by the stove (and Netflix evenings (for me anyway)
Thank you Liz, and maybe not Netflix for me but certainly an early night with a good book!
I don’t think I meant to say ‘left’ my heart 😂 lifted my heart maybe