Weekly news: September 1st, 2021

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I hope you are all doing well!

It’s done! I’ve finished the second painting I wanted to complete for Fall! I’m so happy with how it turned out. The fox was a special request for a friend, and I have to say that I thought about it a lot. I find foxes incredibly difficult to draw because it is so easy to mess them up and have them look more like cats or dogs than foxes. It was an interesting process to practise drawing them and to see how different cultures represented foxes. I learned a lot through painting this little creature. I really enjoy painting the elements of this painting. Fall has its own kind of magic, and this painting made me fall into it a bit ahead of time!

If you want to see more on this painting, head over to my portfolio!

New in store

A whole new collection has arrived to the shop! 🙂

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It’s the beginning of a new month which means, a new vlog is up! 🙂

A small treat…

These miniatures by Penny Thomson are just magic!

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Happy October!

New in the Portfolio

Yesterday, I realized that when I put new posts in my portfolio, they don’t appear here… So I wanted to share these two pieces I added a few weeks ago that are perfect for October! One is a celebration for pumpkin! And the other, a thinking fox! Click on the image to see more details on each piece 🙂

Wishing you all a lovely autumn!

I hope you’ll go take a look and like what you see 🙂

Weekly news: April 8, 2021

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I hope you are all doing well!

What a week! After months of silence, construction has started behind our home. This came to us as a surprise… a noisy, heartbreaking and turbulent surprise! In an effort to stay sane, as noise makes me emotional since my concussion, I’ve moved my atelier to the basement. I feel very lucky to have this extra room and last refuge to go to. It enables me to keep on creating in a more peaceful environment. It was quite something to move everything out of the guest bedroom and the former office and to bring it all together again. I think I might have a slight book addiction! However, I think we’ve succeeded in creating a nice workspace. My partner is also working from home and now we have more room to work, and I even gained an extra desk in the process!

Through all of this, I managed to continue working on my foxes. My original idea was to make a colouring page with different foxes doing different foxy things, but then plants happened. Still, I’m very happy with the result, and it was so interesting to research different plants named after foxes. I realized for example that Foxglove is also called Folk’s Glove because of a Welsh legend that says that fairies (or Little Folk) use the flowers as gloves. I can’t help but wonder is Folk’s Glove slowly became Foxglove because of how similar these names sounds. Fascinating! In any case, the colouring page became a calligraphy piece and finally a greeting card and print! I’m very happy with this page of foxes!