This Week's Visual Journals

Week 42 of 2024

Process videos

In this video, I’m showing in real time what I tend to do every week with a base of watercolour. On the left I am creating a feature vignette, on the right I’m adding several boxes to illustrate the days of the week. This time, I’m creating as I’m going along, I have not pre-planned the layout or what I’ll include in the boxes. While the paint is drying, I find it helpful to check my calendar and journaling notes from the week, or sometimes my iPhone pics give a clue as to what my week’s included!

Once dry, I continue this spread during Emma Carpendale’s co-sketching session which I’d highly recommend.

As part of my highlights:

• drawing a local cottage during my co-drawing session with LaScarlatte

• lots of trees changing colour

• reading a book on Henri Matisse I borrowed from the local library

• a concertina course I’m taking at the museum which is really pushing me out of my comfort zone

• a bowl of leek&potato soup as I was looking out the window at the museum.

• all the sweet chestnuts

• working some more on my Italian paintings, inspired by my residency from 2 weeks ago

What’s your week been like? What images come to mind?

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ART RETREAT in Italy

Some exciting news….

This week I finalised art retreat plans and details with Elisabeth from Le Mole Sul Farfa in Mompeo, Italy where I did my art residency 2 weeks ago. The dates for the art retreat will be

Monday 15th Sep - Saturday 20th Sep 2025

I will be posting more info on this next week here on Substack as well as on Instagram with links to the website. Stay tuned!

Until then,

Have a great weekend!

Helen xx