Studio Snippets

Some stuff I've been working on and some peeks at my sketchbook.

Hello Friends and Forest Dwellers,

A lot has been going on in my life recently, and I’m finding it tricky to get time in to work with my oldest home from school. I just wanted to share a collection of photos and thoughts from my studio recently.

My studio is still a work in progress, but my sweet dog, Artie, still attempts to find a spot to join me as my studio buddy.

The patchwork thistle is inspired by Taryn Knight.

I had these blank coasters sitting in my drawer forever, so I decided to give a go at painting them. I am not sure I love how they are coming out. I might end up covering up the borders and just keeping the design in each center. We’ll see…

I recently bought a few Tombow ABT Dual brush pens and have fallen in love (bought more that are coming in the mail as we speak). I quite like this palette that I picked up initially. With the way that I use them, I find the blender brush pretty useless, as I just use a waterbrush and blend them. If you want to use them with and for watercolour, save yourself some money and skip the blender brush, is my advice. Have you tried these brush pens? Let me know.

I have also been trying to use up my copic markers that I haven’t touched in years, before deciding to probably just be done with Copics and move towards Tombows or Ecoline water-based brush pens.

Realised I have a wee thimble collection. The two ceramic ones I found at a charity shop, the wood one came in a cantilever box I also got from a charity shop. Now I want to expand my collection!

Some sketchbook pages. This rainbow pencil is fun!

Some sketches of tattoo flash and studies of Teagan White’s work.

Lovely walks with the kiddos.

Lastly, the weather has been perfect for after-dinner walks with the kids lately. The willow trees in the park near us are so dreamy.

I’ve been very hyper-focused on my sketchbook recently and have wanted to just spend hours filling various sketchbooks. I hope to film a sketchbook tour pretty soon! You can see sketchbook dumps, behind-the-scenes, and my finished piece by joining my Patreon or ko-fi.

Here is a picture of the print that went out to Patrons back in May for the theme “retro tech.”

Thank you for reading and joining me for this little tour of some of the things I’ve been working on lately.

Stay curious!