Mousy Mischief

It has been a couple of weeks since last I did a blog, so here is what I have been up to - Not a whole lot!
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Watercolour has again touched my palette and I am busy with a series of mousy characters that will be used as plates for a new bundle of commissioned work.  As you know, I like to take my time throughout the whole process from ideation to testing and then laying out the watercolour.  I do heaps of research to get characters looking just the way they should or rather would have looked in the days of Beatrix Potter.  Actually, I find the whole process an incredible step back in the past and puts me very much in touch with my technique.  I get so worried I will stuff up the treatment of work that sometimes, I think I overwork my pieces for fear of failure.  This is something that I fear most in all spheres of my artistic world, as many of you well know. If it is not just right, I will rip it up and start again, no matter the hours spent on creation of the piece.  Tell me, I know not if that is good or a bad thing.  

A good friend of mine always reminds me that this is not always a good decision and suggests to, “just put it out there and get perfect later”.  I reckon this works well for most things in business, because as one develops a product you can always tweak the product a little way down the track.  Yet, as you know this is not the case for creatives of illustration, tales, design or performance.  All are what make up my being.  So I guess, even though I would love to follow this suggestion – it is not as practical as when I first thought.
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On a personal note - I would like to thank all of you who have encouraged and given me strength over the past trying months with the Big C.  It has been a huge learning curve; lots of mental adjustment and just trying to move forward and not thinking about any of it.  I feel so blessed and much stronger than I was a couple of months ago and with God’s blessing, all of this will be very much behind me.  So again, thanks to everyone.   Mwa! 😊