It’s been such a long time since I posted here on my blog. We’ve all been through quite a lot the past two years haven’t we? Well to add to my stress and at the same time happiness, we’ve moved from England to the Scottish Borders! Moving during a pandemic when they kept closing the borders was so stressful, but we’re moved now and getting settled in.
We are still discovering just how beautiful our new area is, the Borders are wild and quiet, just what we like. The whole process of moving and settling in and creating new garden beds has and continues to, take lots of my time.
I will be focusing on getting a new printer set up and organizing proper selling of my prints and originals from my website. I’ve never had the chance to really do it right! Now I also have the fun little needle felted characters which I look forward to making available to buy soon.
I have a YouTube channel that has been sitting waiting also, so lately I’ve been adding videos so I can get back into it. Now with the house, gardens, new studio set up, new lands to explore, I’ll have lots to share there! Please go look, “Like” and hopefully “Subscribe” to follow my endeavours! Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnrD9rYXZ6KWYeDRElAvGyw I’ll get better at it as I go, I’m learning a new video editor called “ShotCut”.
I have really missed sharing here and can’t wait to get back to it. I have lots of new artwork to add to the Gallery too. What’s been holding me back in many areas is just figuring out how I want to redesign my website Galleries. I’m also having trouble receiving email notifications when someone leaves a comment! I need to find help for that issue with Word Press.
So, has anyone missed me? What have you kept busy with during this pandemic and are you OK? I miss talking to the great people who leave comments for me here, you always inspire me to keep creating!
I’ll share some pictures below of our area and some more studies.
Well that’s all for now, so much to share! Please don’t be shy, leave me a comment and I’ll check back here to reply to all. I hope you’re all keeping well, see you soon with another post or YouTube video!
I so love your work… the variety, the lightness,the scenes where you are outside creating, imbibing the landscape, immersed in the world of outside and beyond. I am still a fledgling artist, writer, unpublished, but still inspired, at this later stage of my life. I do want to make a point of relishing in the idea of relocation, with great appreciation for place, and the willingness to make it happen, even from ground zero with regard to creating gardens, exploring the countryside, being a part of a new landscape. Thanks for your new post. May your feet continue to kiss the earth with each step, a quote I read by Tom Udall to the late Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Monk. I look forward to your next posting. Marla in Klamath Falls, Oregon
Yay! I am so glad you are back and cannot wait to see how you paint and draw your new home and area! You are the best!
I love seeing your studio setup as well. You look so happy at your work. Bravo! and best of luck exploring your new life…I am sure you will be a great mentor as always.
Oh Marla, I can tell you’re a writer, you make what I’m doing sound just right and I feel inspired by reading it! I just keep trying to live each day with relish even when I (we) have so much to do to here just to make garden areas and settle in. I always feel this guilty pang of wanting to just be drawing and painting like I should be, but so much else needs to be done. I love where we live now, just can’t stop looking at the hills all around, they interact with the sky, clouds and mist all the time. I’m hoping I can catch some of that wonder when I get to do some paintings of them. Are you thinking of moving too?
Thank you SO much Pam, I feel like I just got a big hug! haha That picture of me in the studio was when I was working on an involved illustration for my new grand-daughter, I can’t wait to share more about how that turned out on the blog. I’m also going to do a YouTube video talking about how I did the stages of it, I think that would be interesting. I can’t wait to do some landscapes that are not just studies, but a bit more detailed. I have so much I can’t wait to do! I’ll definitely be sharing more about the garden progress on my YouTube channel, it’s a good way for me to look back too and see how it changes. Should be fun to record that. Thanks so much for commenting!
The photo of you “Sketching “Rubers Law”” is stunning. I hope that you will post your rendition of it!
I am so glad to see you back! I have missed you and wondered when you might be posting again.
Your postings had so much to enjoy!So glad you have made it thru your move and enjoying you new home!
Look forward to your postings and YouTube!
I am so glad that you are posting again. Your new lands and hills are beauties!! Peacetul, calm, and gorgeous!! Please do post your work … I love seeing it. Lots of blessings to you both!! God bless, C-Marie
It’s nice to hear from you again too! It is pretty peaceful here, but there’s always something going on with the busy shepherds and farmers around us! I will be posting more, I promise!
Thank you so much Flora, it makes me happy to see I was missed and I promise to try and share more. Now I have to learn how to update my website as WordPress is changing a lot! Yikes! I just want more time to paint! haha
Thank you so much Ed! Gary always obliges and takes some snaps of me while I’m engrossed in my drawing. I’m telling you the truth, and I know you’ll believe me, it was so cold and windy up there I didn’t get much of a study done, just a simple beginning of a line drawing. But it’s all studying the scene and practice laying it out correctly, so none of it’s wasted time. I can pull up some pictures I took from my sitting position and start with the sketch I did also and try to make a nicer study maybe with color.
I’m finding a lot of folks are liking the pictures of me working in the outdoors, I love them because it’s my memory and I love thinking of myself there. But I thought it would be indulgent of me to share them, but now I think I’ll share more, especially when it’s scenes like this!! haha
I’m glad you’re back. I’ve missed your beautiful posts.
Thank you so much Meggie, that makes me feel inspired to keep at it and get more blog posts done. We went for a beautiful walk today that I want to share soon on my YouTube channel. It’ll be mostly photo stills I think, it was so windy I didn’t video tape much. But I did take note of some perfect views to do paintings of when the weather is a little nicer! 🙂