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Rachel Goddard's avatar

Hello! I found you here, via your YouTube video on this series of paintings, it just popped up as a recommendation and very fitting it was too. I really enjoyed watching your process and now reading this post linked to it. So thank you. I love the idea of an alphabet for inspiration and it's set my creativity cogs turning as I'm a nature inspired artist too.

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Orla Stevens's avatar

Hello! Lovely to meet you :) aw I'm glad you enjoyed it - I've been really enjoying this series & project; working with words has given me lots of new ideas & I'm neeearly at the end of it now, so looking forward to seeing the full series all together 🌞

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Angela Wales - Artist's avatar

I’ve been painting for a couple of decades now and I still wind up in this questioning. I do believe it’s just part of the process and the journey, but it can be crippling to making anything at all if it’s allowed to burrow in. After almost completely shutting down over the past few years, I’m finally painting regularly again and find myself pretty deep into this questioning right now. I want to thank you for sharing your process, and for sharing it so gently, because it is truly very helpful for navigating mine. I am so grateful your feed fell into mine somehow. If I was anywhere near Scotland, I’d try to go out sketching with you. And I love this A-Z idea! I’m going to have try that.

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Orla Stevens's avatar

Hey Angela! So sorry for the late reply, could have sworn I'd responded, but the tech goblins must have been out again. Thanks so much for your comment; I totally agree, it's something that will come and go over the years. That's so good to hear you've found your creative flow again. If you're ever over in Scotland, do give me a shout, would be great to have a sketching session sometime! 😊

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Orla Stevens's avatar

Hey Lyly, thanks so much - I'm glad you got something from it, and thank you for your enthusiasm on the project, it's been so fun to complete!

It's a tricky one eh - I think everyone fine tunes what consistency means to them or how much of it they need ☀️

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