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let’s all reconvene in Ottawa over bread together ❤️❤️ love this so much!

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Awesome take on food and so great to see your creativity both in words or in art form!

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Fantastic column about your process. I love your art and if you lived here you would be an excellent candidate to submit ideas for our Applefest.

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Wow, that is an epic painting full of story and life! And I love how you repurposed your artwork to create a card too. So lovely to have found your work!

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Thanks so much Carolyn! I found your lovely work (and your newsletter) through the orbit of Lindsay's YBR classes :) I really enjoy reading it, I've been sitting with the ideas in the latest post for the last few days and really resonate with them...I'm trying to take less classes this year and listen to my own guidance. Easier said than done, but I think it's time to push my practice forward on my own terms this year. Cheers!

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Thank you Emily! And yay YBR, easily the best community discovered through art classes over the years :) You absolutely can do it, and I look forward to reading about your practice in your newsletter & keeping each other accountable!

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mwah, I love your illustrative style! I'm crawling, slowly so slowly, back into art after decades of "life" taking me away from my teenage creative self. I'm finding it SO difficult to just create and play with zero expectations, and your posts are very inspiring, especially our sketchbook pages as you work through the drafts and colours. I swatch and swatch just to do *something* to keep me going forward. Next step is to actually, I dunno, pick a photo or still life and attempt to re-create it on paper.

Thank you for your beautiful posts, Emily! (and side thanks to Andrew Kurjata for pointing me to your Substack a few months ago 😊)

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Thank you so much and thanks for being here! (And I'm sure indebted to Andrew for sharing about my newsletter - a lot of new folks found me that way!)

I can definitely relate - I also spent a very long time denying my artistic interests that had always been there since childhood. It can be so hard to play and lower expectations! My only advice is to try and make a lot of stuff, and to make lists of things you love and draw/paint those things - helps to have some curiosity around the subject, so it feels more fun and less like homework. A book on this topic that I love and return to often is Finding Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon - I know there is a copy at the PG library :)

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