Maybe these have already been covered, but how about your own residence, your local library, an elementary school (though you might have to get clearance from the office first) or your favorite coffee shop? in any case, thank you for always inspiring us with your wonderful work!
I am a geologist by training and these paintings are really great. I think I should appreciate what's before me everyday. Kudos . Will show my portraits on my Page. Cheers everyone.
I am the self-appointed artist in residence of a horse boarding stable, via photography. It is one of the few old horse farms left in the Seattle suburbs, most have been swallowed up by housing developments.
While I do love the horses, I am fascinated by the vintage buildings, some of which the owner has restored.
I am 73, so the horse that I ride there will probably be my last horse in a lifetime of horses. When it's time to move on, I will print my favorite photos in a book as a gift for the owner.
I just would like to thank you for launching this self appointed artist residence idea!
There is definitely magic in the repetition, or, to put it another way, in exploring something in depth.
I think that many of us creative types :) have no difficulty coming up with ideas but we benefit from structure. At least it’s my case. And the self appointed Artist’s residency is a perfect structure !
I’m continuing with the unusual Parisian gardens - I’m up to 10 and I have at least 40 in mind - and I keep discovering things about myself and what interests me. Turns out I’m writing about places (place writing is a genre that I’m happy to have discovered). And I’m more and more interested in doing this through textures…Who knew?!:)
Hi Amy. I love Grahame Hurd-Wood's mammoth portrait project, but as I live in London, England with a population of close to 10 million, it would take many lifetimes to paint all my neighbours!
BTW St David's, Wales is not an English village as your Welsh followers will no doubt let you know!
After reading your newsletter, I created a self-appointed artist residency for my dogs' surgery!
My dog, Roxy, had torn both of her back ACLs - rather efficient of her and so we got them fixed both at the same time.
The kicker - she couldn’t use stairs for 8 weeks. We live in a split level that had been split once more for good measure, so I turned our kitchen into a studio apartment and we camped there for EIGHT weeks. I drew every square inch of the kitchen, the dog, and the dishes, and I think it’s the only reason I didn’t go completely mad.
Thank you for pushing this idea out into the world!!
What a great idea! I'm stuck in Suburbia for a month and was bummed out, missing my ranch. It's a strange house so chronicling its strangeness might keep me sane.
Oh yes, I love the idea of chronicling the strangeness.
My biggest takeaway from the eight weeks of drawing my kitchen was that it forced me to draw things that I would have never chosen to draw, like tea mugs in the cabinet or all the details of the kitchen sink. I'm so grateful for the experience. It widened my drawing horizon exponentially.
Fantastic thank you Amy x
Maybe these have already been covered, but how about your own residence, your local library, an elementary school (though you might have to get clearance from the office first) or your favorite coffee shop? in any case, thank you for always inspiring us with your wonderful work!
All great ideas!
This is SO cool, Amy, in so many ways, inspiring, too.
I am a geologist by training and these paintings are really great. I think I should appreciate what's before me everyday. Kudos . Will show my portraits on my Page. Cheers everyone.
Such an inspiring post!
I am the self-appointed artist in residence of a horse boarding stable, via photography. It is one of the few old horse farms left in the Seattle suburbs, most have been swallowed up by housing developments.
While I do love the horses, I am fascinated by the vintage buildings, some of which the owner has restored.
I am 73, so the horse that I ride there will probably be my last horse in a lifetime of horses. When it's time to move on, I will print my favorite photos in a book as a gift for the owner.
I just would like to thank you for launching this self appointed artist residence idea!
There is definitely magic in the repetition, or, to put it another way, in exploring something in depth.
I think that many of us creative types :) have no difficulty coming up with ideas but we benefit from structure. At least it’s my case. And the self appointed Artist’s residency is a perfect structure !
I’m continuing with the unusual Parisian gardens - I’m up to 10 and I have at least 40 in mind - and I keep discovering things about myself and what interests me. Turns out I’m writing about places (place writing is a genre that I’m happy to have discovered). And I’m more and more interested in doing this through textures…Who knew?!:)
Great to see you here Dacha! Your gardens are a delight to read about.
Hi Amy. I love Grahame Hurd-Wood's mammoth portrait project, but as I live in London, England with a population of close to 10 million, it would take many lifetimes to paint all my neighbours!
BTW St David's, Wales is not an English village as your Welsh followers will no doubt let you know!
Hi 👋!
After reading your newsletter, I created a self-appointed artist residency for my dogs' surgery!
My dog, Roxy, had torn both of her back ACLs - rather efficient of her and so we got them fixed both at the same time.
The kicker - she couldn’t use stairs for 8 weeks. We live in a split level that had been split once more for good measure, so I turned our kitchen into a studio apartment and we camped there for EIGHT weeks. I drew every square inch of the kitchen, the dog, and the dishes, and I think it’s the only reason I didn’t go completely mad.
Thank you for pushing this idea out into the world!!
What a great idea! I'm stuck in Suburbia for a month and was bummed out, missing my ranch. It's a strange house so chronicling its strangeness might keep me sane.
Oh yes, I love the idea of chronicling the strangeness.
My biggest takeaway from the eight weeks of drawing my kitchen was that it forced me to draw things that I would have never chosen to draw, like tea mugs in the cabinet or all the details of the kitchen sink. I'm so grateful for the experience. It widened my drawing horizon exponentially.
I've never bought a book so fast! Thanks for the recommendation of The World She Edited.
These are all wonderful ideas. But now I'm pining for my local garden center and it won't be open for months yet. . .