My latest painting has made its way to the portfolio! It was so much fun painting these delicate and unexpected flowers, but even nicer to work on the rabbits! Over here for more details!
If you like this painting and would like to support my work as an independent artist, it is available as a print and card in my shop.
Explore your creativity with this booklet filed with ideas, inspiration and demos! I worked on this booklet with artists of every skill level in mind: everyone is welcomed!
Through this document, I share my favourite creative exercises and strategies. I hope you will have fun experimenting and creating!
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45 pages
8 1/2 in x 11 in
21,5cm x 28cm
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This week, as I am slowly gathering material for my fabric project, I am also working on my creativity class. I finished writing and editing the text (🥳). As I was going through it all, I thought that adding a few illustrations could make it more fun.
*hummm*
As you may suspect, a few quickly morphed into a lot, and I’ve been working on them. I chose to use a “comic” style of drawing to match with the creativity theme and to make things engaging. As my course is all about exploration and fun, I thought it worked well.
I am also introducing my CloudHead character for the first time to the world. This character came to life in 2019 when I was deep in my concussion recovery. I often felt like my head was full of clouds or cotton, and I started drawing myself like this. I’ve been looking for a way to use this character because I like it so much! CloudHead is perfect as a creativity guide, so I am please that you all get to meet finally!
Outside the atelier, I received some plants that I couldn’t find in the nurseries around here this morning. I am so excited to add them to our garden. It’s always the best boxes to receive! The plants are now enjoying a well-deserved soak, while Stella is doing her mandatory inspection.
That’s it!
Until next week,
Take care 🧡🧡🧡
I just added some thank you cards, ready for any occasion! I love these little cards because they are printed on watercolour paper.
Here’s my vlog for the month of May! I spent a lot of time painting, but I was also able to garden and make some yummy refreshing dessert 🙂
I am completely obsessed with migrating birds: it is always such a big event when we ear them come back. This is definitively going on my bucket-list!
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This week, I’m taking advantaged of having finished a painting to do some research, learn and plan a few upcoming (and very *exciting*) projects. I’m already starting to think about Christmas in the shop, and like last year, I’d like to release a few special products. Last year I added the pouches and pressed flower pendants. This year, I want to experiment with fabrics again, but I want to have more control over the designs and printing. I won’t tell you more as I want to keep the surprise a little bit longer. All I can say is that, if things work out, I’ll need to add some special plants to the garden next year! I’ve also hired a very furry assistant to watch over my process. Here are some behind the scenes photos:
Outside the atelier, I’ve been gardening and enjoying the tulips’ last few days of blooms. We’ll be ready to pull them out soon to let the bulbs rest before putting them back next Fall. It is the first time that we are trying this, and I hope we’ll get beautiful blooms next Spring again.
A few weeks ago, we stumbled upon oak trees and cracked acorns in a park. Winter and frost usually break them open, and when we saw that some of them had started to sprout, I collected a few (read: a lot) to try and grow. I thought only a fraction of the acorns we brought home would sprout and grow, but most of them actually did! I just transferred them to individual pots last weekend and have started taking them out to harden. I am very excited to see if we can help them grown into tree-babies and eventually trees. Of course, there are way too many for our garden, so I hope to be able to give some to friends and neighbours. In case you want to try and grow your own oak trees, this guide was very helpful. It makes me so happy to have all these baby trees around!
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Another great graphic novel by such a talented artist! A modern fairy tale to discover 🙂
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In case you need a little boost of magic! This is such an incredible phenomenon. It cheered me up immensely!
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I worked hard this week to finish the painting I was telling you about last week. I am so excited to share this one with you because I have been wanting to paint some Vietnamese fruits for the longest time. They are so varied, so rich in colours and shapes, and so delicious! I grew up eating many of them (my favourites being ramboutans and durian) and hearing about the incredible markets that populated my mom’s childhood. I combined everything here and even added a magical fruit merchant to celebrate the year of the Tiger a bit more.
It was so much fun and also a bit challenging to draw all these fruits and their textures. I love how colourful they are! If you want to see some process pictures and more details, feel free to visit my portfolio.
Outside the atelier, we spent some time this weekend finally taking out our seedlings and moving them to their permanent home in the vegetable patch. It was hot and humid, and we collected many bug bites, but everyone is settling nicely now. The garden is thriving at the moment and giving us a bounty of spring blooms… and a visiting cat friend! I am particularly in awe of the apple and pear blossoms that are so beautiful! The tulips are simply stunning, and I cannot help but stop to admire them each time I step outside.
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A charming and touching graphic novel!
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On the importance of teamwork…
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I heard through the grapevine that May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada and in other parts of the world. So, as I have been fiddling with the idea of making another tiger painting for a while, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to work on it. I’m enjoying the process a lot, and researching reference pictures was particularly fun. For this painting, I’m celebrating my Vietnamese heritage and am working on a market scene. I had planned to finish the painting in time for today so that I could share it with you, but well, next week probably! No peaking, it’s a surprise!
Outside of the atelier, we are having our first heat wave of the year. It is the earliest heat wave we have had in my memory, and it is quite astonishing to see all the leaves come out of the trees all at once, almost quickly enough for us to see them grow with our naked eyes. Stella has also transitioned from happy kitty to sluggish potato… but she does have a lot of fur! I’ve been feeling weird about this and the world lately and this comic (by the incredible Sarah Andersen) perfectly illustrates my inner monologue.
So, to take my mind off of things, I’ve been researching website options. It’s been interesting to look at the different platforms and to test out different themes and styles. I’m looking into a new website because since I’m making a creativity class, I want to have access to a learning/teaching platform for it. There are so many options! Let me know if you have a favourite or a recommendation. Your input is always very much appreciated.
That’s it!
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A very cute and enchanting middle grade book illustrated by Charles Vess!
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I discovered this channel this week, and it is so inspiring! Johanna has such a tiny garden, but it is filled to the brim with beautiful flowers all year round. She gives a ton of tips on container and succession gardening and it is truly inspiring. Here’s a short video of her garden in Spring: lots of flowers, soft music and cats! What’s not to love?
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Our seedlings have started making flowers inside! For the last two years, we have had some flower even before they reach the garden. It is particularly enjoyable because we started these plants from seeds. It’s like an extra seal of success. They only have a few more days before they get to their permanent homes outside in the garden. I am very excited for the season to truly begin!
Here are a marigold and an eggplant flower that opened this morning:
This week, I gave the final touches on my forest painting, and it is done! I finished the Spring Forest Fairies painting, and it was such a satisfying piece to work on. I tackled my fear of backgrounds, and it was both exciting and rewarding to do so. I think I learned a few tricks and techniques with this painting, and that is always great. I also paid special attention to the composition, and I am so happy with how it turned out. I love the three little characters/fairies. I think they tell a story and add a touch of woodland magic to this forest scene.
I took a lot of process pictures. They are waiting for you in my portfolio.
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Such a wonderful book! I loved discovering it, and I have not been able to put it away since.
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It is the first week of May, and here is the April vlog! I share some of my process for the Spring Forest painting and birds, a lot of birds.
So . excited . for . this!
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The flowers are here!
The flowers are here!
The flowers are here!
They got snowed on again yesterday, but luckily all the snow was gone this morning, and I was able to go outside and snap these pictures you. I am so excited to see the flowers finally blooming! The hellebores are stunning, and I really hope they will spread around their corner of the garden. The daffodils make us instantly happy, and I also want to propagate them around. Their bright yellow is so warming to our winter-filled hearts. I even saw the tiniest little viola flower! It is so wonderful to have so many flowers pop out finally. Everything seems brighter all of a sudden in the garden, and there are so many things to see and look at, you would need eyes all around the head to see it all!
In the atelier, I’ve been continuing work on my forest flowers painting. It is a lot of fun because I find myself doing a lot of research on how other artists have approached light and shadows, and backgrounds. I am once again learning a lot through this piece. It is so motivating to be constantly searching and learning and finding solutions. Here is a snippet:
That’s it!
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Take care 🧡🧡🧡
Stop everything you are doing and run to your favourite bookstore or public library to order this book!
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My partner and I took a stained glass class a few weeks ago. It was so much fun, and I am taking you with us!
The cape: GENIUS!!!
For the last few days, I’ve been working on this peony painting. Peonies are stunning, but they have so many petals! As a painter, they are so intimidating! Anyways, I finished this piece and just added it to my portfolio!
I hope you like it and have a look!
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Can you believe we had snow at the beginning of the week? I still can’t!
The good thing about it being still pretty cold out, is that ****drum roll please**** I finished my sweater, and I can wear it! It was such a long project that I kept putting aside, but I’m so glad it is now finished!
I’m am getting very impatient to see flowers outside, but in the meantime, I am celebrating Spring with a new forest flowers painting. I’m just at the beginning of it, so there is not much to share. For this one, I am tackling my fear of backgrounds and trying something new (again). I hope it turns out beautiful!
Outside of the atelier, I’ve been thinking a lot about…the atelier. Etsy has increased their fees, Patreon, my work on the blog, making enough sales have all been on my mind. I’ve seen other artists add a tip jar to their Etsy shop, and I thought that was a good idea. So, there is now a tip jar in my shop. It always feels a bit icky talking about and asking for money, but I want to continue to create quality and free content (the book reviews and this newsletter for example!). This still means that I spend time and put work into creating these free pages. The tip jar is there in case you have a desire and financial capacity to support my work. Of course, this is totally up to you, and I hope you will not feel like you have to! The fact that you are reading this makes me already so happy. Moving on!
I am also putting up a class on creativity, and I have been writing some more these past few weeks. I try to write for a 2 hours or so every few days, and I am almost done with the text part of the class. I cannot wait to get into the filming/photography part of this project! I’m still looking at many more weeks of work, but it is slowly taking shape. I’ll keep you posted on that project as well!
Finally, if you didn’t eat your weight in chocolate over the long weekend and are still craving something sweet, these crunchy peanut butter chocolates are amazing! Beware, they tend to disappear instantly!
That’s it!
Until next week,
Take care 🧡🧡🧡
This is such a beautiful book!
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It’s so fun to discover myths and stories. I really like the illustration style of this video. I hope you will like it too!
Anne Sea Illustration 