OCTOBER UPDATE I have almost finished a year of art journalling and I have a lot of thoughts about the practice and how it has helped me survive lockdowns and isolations. At the end of the year I will be sharing a little video of the entire years worth of journalling but this is a […]
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I am so excited to share with you the new range of LilliBean Christmas Wee Beasties! Wee Beasties are one of a kind wooden dolls, that I have painted, accessorised and then placed in little whimsical scenes. This year I have a couple of new Wee Beasties: There is Mr and Mrs Claus on a
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AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 2021 UPDATE. 2021 saw the addition of an art journalling practice to my weekly rituals. I have written about it in depth here . My practice during lock morphed into a daily art to a little longer session with a bit more detail. Anything to avoid home schooling with the terrible trio and
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NOTES ON ISOLATION We had one week of freedom. One week with out lock down rules in place. One week of school before holidays and we had started to make our holiday bucket list. It would be a quiet one because local government areas surrounding us were still locked down, but we were thinking differently.
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I have a little notebook that lives in my car (well it lives in my car when I am not in lock down!) and when I have to pick the terrible trio up from school or dance or wait for covid tests and doctors appointments, I’ll sketch little drawings. Part of this is boredom –
THE BOO BEASTIES ARE BACK! Halloween is just around the corner so it must be time to create some new additions for my Boo Beastie collections. I just adore how these turned out and how much people love them. Boo Beasties are the cutest damned Halloween decorations out there! This years collection included a few
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P R E O R D E R S N O W O P E N Pre orders are now open for the 2022 LilliBean Designs Art Calendar! Each month features a print of an original art work by LilliBean Designs all of which are brand new and have never been in a previous calendar.
Today I am share the third of 5 paintings created on wooden disks. Last year I bought five large round wooden disks from our local hardware shop. At the time I didn’t really have a plan, but I was also slightly enamoured with wreaths, and starting to follow the moon phases. Earlier this year I
This painting seemed to take months. Actually it did take months! Each time I worked on it, I would take infinitesimally small steps forward, and end the session feeling frustrated and lost. But I think the end result was worth it. This is the second of my wooden disk paintings – the first being the CRYSTAL
