I’ll be at the Made by Hand show tomorrow, selling the usual, plus necklaces and brooches made from my illustrations! And Sailor Moon inspired necklaces for the super dorky, like me… ^_^ kawaii smiley!
April’s almost here, and with it comes a bunch of spring markets! First up is the Bazaar of the Bizarre, from 11-7pm on April 1st. I’ll be there with new prints and new necklaces!
1More updates! New logo, and a snappy new page for all the in-house design I’ve done in the past while: http://caitlinrussellart.com/moroco.html
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
Neil Gaiman
New Year Wish
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A couple updates to the site!
Posted up a new wedding invite commission, and made a tea creatures page.
New study, trying out direct painting with no base drawing to start with. This was from a photo I took in Cathedral Grove, BC of a big old gnarled tree rising out of the water.
Tea Stain Creatures: A Small Compendium
Here’s a new book I made a little while ago, compiling some of the tea stain paintings I’ve made. It was fun coming up with the accompanying blurbs - each creature had its own personality that emerged out of a simple stain.
A lot of these were painted after my morning tea (and a few with midnight tea…). I’d take the steeped tea bag, randomly dab it onto stonehenge paper, let it dry and expand on what I saw with watercolour and pencil crayon. Aside from a bit of filling in, each creature keeps true to the shape of the original stain.
