Hello all,
I hope you’ve had a good week. Here, with the days getting darker, we are struggling to get up a bit more in the mornings. However, it’ll soon be our October break which we’re thankful for.
It’s been a productive week in the studio with several days of playing and learning (getting somewhat better at embracing ugly work), resulting in a few small seasonal paintings of local treasures and a couple admin days fulled by coffee. I also managed to squeeze in a morning walking around a little local village called Tickhill with my friend Rebecca which I’m hoping to share with my paid subscribers in a vlog-type video next week. And during the club’s monthly co-creating meet I drew this spread of our day there. I love documenting my days like this. It helps me to remember some of the details in a deeper way.
For my weekly visual journals, as a feature piece on the left, I chose a landscape from our walk on Sunday in our local woods. I tried capturing the warm and cool colours shimmering in the breeze. Trees are so delightful to paint plein air at the minute but this one, I did in the studio from memory.
I will probably come back to this because some of it looks a little muddy, but part of me wants to embrace muddy so I’m undecided. I’m sharing it as it is now, simply because I’ve run out of time… which is ok. That time constraint is what gets projects done.
As a little experiment I turned the sketchbook around and found out I quite liked the way the colours complimented each other when I wasn’t so focused on trying so hard to represent them realistically. Also some close up bits are fun too…
So here it is, my visual journals of this last full week of October 2024.
Have a fabulous weekend and look out for the gazette next week (1st of every month) which will have a long list of club events announced for coming weeks, including co-host guests such as Charlotte Hamilton of Blue Shine Art, Mel Chadwick of Seasalt and Serpentine and Margaux Kent of Resounding Little Voices. I can’t wait to tell you more. Thanks so much for warm responses to the first issue this month.
Helen xx
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