Lill life advice

I haven't managed to write an artist statement that I'm happy with. It always sounds wrong. I even bought a book with the great title "The relatively painfree artist statement", but I never got around to working through it. Maybe I have to give it another shot. Here is the link to the book:

https://www.amazon.com/Relatively-Pain-Free-Artist-Statement-ebook/dp/B004IZLFM0/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1508232757&sr=1-3

I was doing webdesign today

Here is an excercise for how to deal with unwanted feelings. I haven't read the whole book yet, but I really like the playful approach. Here is the author's website: https://www.playawarenessgames.com/

Here are some impressions from the workshop I attended yesterday and the day before yesterday at http://sistersacademy.dk/

I'm going to be away for two days.

I found a way to draw figures from imagination! This was one of the big hurdles for me. I had done lots of live figure drawing, but I never managed to draw humans from my imagination in a convincing way. I'll share my journey and methods in another blogpost. But  the excuse to not show my stuff until I am finished practicing has fallen away... for now. I'm curious what will happen now.

 

I have always liked the sound of accordeon, but without thinking about it. Kind of unconsciously. Especially the more melancholic kind, be it French or Argentinian or Balcan music. Although I did play piano as a child, it never occurred to me that I could actually buy an accordeon and learn to play – until I saw this nice little Hohner Student IV sitting on one of the tables at a music flea market, that we were visiting because our eldest son wanted to buy a bass guitar. But it was Mom who whol…

 

I don't mind being alone in my studio alone almost every day. I have two nice dogs, a cat, my paintings and dolls and the Internet to keep me company, and I'm surrounded by beautiful nature. I actually love my solitary life, so much so that I sometimes forget to get in touch with the world. But it was also really nice to have guests in my studio, having coffee together and showing them my stuff. I see my paintings with fresh eyes, get new ideas, and it looked like they were inspired, too. Yay!

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