RIP My Twitter
This week I made the decision to stop posting on Twitter and delete all my tweets. I have not enjoyed my time there for a while and since they announced that any content would be sucked into their AI for training after November 15th, I decided that it would be a good time for me to finally leave!

My Twitter profile is still up with links to my website, but everything else is gone. I did request my data and download the archive of my tweets, so it is possible that I could host that somewhere in the future.

I am currently posting on Bluesky, but am still finding my feet there.

To be honest, I am still finding my feet here too. I am not sure what to post on my new blog and when to make posts. I think I will be sharing mostly little update posts, and maybe the occasional book review!

This Month’s Supporter Rewards and Art Markets
I have been working hard this month to get all of the supporter rewards finished early to give me time to prepare for the art markets.

Speaking of which, I got into a December art market! More to follow, as I just received the acceptance email this morning – but I am excited to be doing a Christmas market again in December!

My Desk This Week
I have been have fun making watercolour sketchbooks, especially tiny little accordion books from offcuts! I’ve also started prototyping leather covers for my sketchbooks. Here is a photo of my desk from after a stream this week:

Currently Reading
Debt-Free Art Degree Foundations in Drawing. The Affordable Way to Learn Professional Skills by Marco Bucci.
This is a very good foundational book, and I have enjoyed the first few chapters! I am going to post a book review when I finish the book, but already I can tell I would recommend it!

That’s all for today, I’ll be back again soon!

I hope you are all having a great weekend! It is a long weekend here so I took yesterday off. Today I am working on the website and tidying things up a bit!

Next week’s stream schedule will be a bit different, with no stream on Monday due to the public holiday. Here is the stream schedule!

Monday: NO STREAM

Tuesday: 1pm – 4pm NZST – oil painting

Wednesday: 7.30pm – 9.30pm NZST – making sketchbooks

Thursday: 1pm – 4pm NZST – Wizard of Oz watercolours

I’ve also been having a fun time experimenting with sublimation printing and you can see more of that in this week’s vlog!

I plan to spend the rest of the long weekend working on art and cleaning up my workspace, then it’s on to planning and preparing for the next lot of markets in November!

It’s been a long while since I’ve had a blog, but I am looking forward to getting back into blogging and sharing small snippets and random updates that don’t fit anywhere else!

No algorithms, no schedule and no pressure.

This is going to be my cozy little home on the web, I hope you enjoy your time here!