I have to confess, I’ve not had as much ‘creative’ time as I’d have liked so far this year. Learning all about newsletter creation, adding pins to Pinterest, researching Substack have all been eating into my studio time. All a necessary part of building a business, but quite time consuming, and frustrating, especially when things go wrong and you have to figure out why!
I’ve been working on one painting in particular – the lilies mentioned in January’s newsletter, but it’s still not quite where I want it to be yet (also frustrating!). I feel I’ve added too much detail and I wanted it to have a looser feel, so more work to do yet. It’s not too far off, but I think because I had quite a long break after I started it, it’s lost some of the energy and spontaneity and now I’m going to have to work harder to get it back and get it to where I want it to be. I’ll have to do something dramatic or wreck it a bit to rekindle my interest I think, but as I said last month, it will be good to get it finished and as we start to emerge from the dark winter months, I’m definitely beginning to feel the inspiration building and can’t wait to get going, making all of the new ideas floating around my head into some kind of reality.
In other news, we have some new sofas arriving soon and I have to get the living room decorated before they get here, so really should crack on! We’ve opted for a gorgeous dark blue/green colour – like a deep sea.