Thank you! Great to see you back with a new series. Happy 2023. :)

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year, Sally! Thanks for being here!

Greetings from South Australia 🤗🐨🦘🐨🤗I am new to your channel Michele, totally by accident and I am so stoked. It was meant to be, I have been creative all my life and at the ripe young age of 64. I have wanted to do some staining on raw canvas again with a new series I am starting ( The Goddesses). This will be my fourth series on this subject but I have a strong urge to go back to the raw canvas. So I have now got some valuable info because of you. I am so excited I found you I love your energy Michele, your unconditional passion and love for art is the way I feel. More so now that we live in a small country town surrounded by nature. Just wanted to say hello and thankyou for being here and sharing your awesomeness. Namaste 🙏🏼 Love and Light from Tamra ❤

@MicheleTheberge

10 ай бұрын

Hey friend! Thanks for introducing yourself! Sounds like you have some exciting stuff going on. Hope to hear more from you here.

I've had my art supplies packed away for a year, and have moved, settled, and ready to GO. I still need to set up my space, and like you, I love to be organized, and also scrounge for those flat boxes for materials, especially bits I get from the beach, which are fragile. I had a thought while watching this vid ... pizza boxes! Anyhow, I have been looking today for a teacher, and your video on the 4 types of acrylic paints popped up. This is what I am keen on learning (acrylics), and after checking out your channel, and your beautiful video, and playlists, I decided to start here. I'll watch this series while I get stuff on the shelves and organized. Good to 'meet' you. I am really looking forward to learning from you, and the encouraging tone. Blessed be. :)

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Jennifer! Thank you so much for writing! I'm a little behind on responding to comments. But I'm so so happy to meet you here and now that it's been a month I'd love an update! How are things going in your acrylics journey. And did you find some pizza boxes for storing your materials?

I do completely understand!!!

I am like you, I like things cleaned up and in order. If I walk into my home studio and it’s a mess, I tend to want to walk out!

Hi Michele , lovely to see u again!😍😍

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

You too!!

thank you for the inspiration to clean up and declutter! ❤.

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Yay! So glad you were inspired by this.

How do you like your country studio compared to your urban one? The view from your country windows looks to be quite lovely. Lots of good light too! You just reminded me that I need to go up in the attic and clean up my rather large mess from my last round of collage making. Like you, I have my collage material stored in fairly flat boxes. In my case, I salvaged them from my old day job at a public library where the IT dept got new computer equipment and they had a huge stack of boxes roughly 12x20 inches which made them perfect for storing sheets of 11x17 paper. I do kind of a Victorian surrealist type of collage using the Dover collage books that I put the elements on acid free paper and attach them on panels. Also do my regular paintings on panels after years of working on canvas. I jokingly refer to the attic as my studio annex as I store frames for future paintings, extra easels, etc. I moved an old dining room table up there to make the collages. I prefer things to be tidy, but collage making is generally a very messy process and I don't like to mix work areas between painting and collage making. After I finish my current painting, I'm going to see if I can thin out the studio space a little more for extra elbow room. I rebuilt my website which has a gallery for the collages as well as all my other paintings. Did a new batch of collages recently, but I haven't posted them yet. I'm sure I'll do it soon, but I feel burned by having my work data scraped into the LAION-5B database for Stable Diffusion. My site: www.beautifulpast.net/

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Patrick! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful work with me! And those collages! You've probably seen the work of San Francisco artist Jess? He also made heavy use of old engraving imagery in a delightful surrealistic mashup. My studio in the country is where I feel most at peace. But the space is quite a bit smaller so I can't really do all the things that I'm able to do in the city. In fact there are really no walls to speak of. There's a brick wall on one side the backs up to the chimney for the rest of the windows. So it's an absolutely delightful space to be in and I feel completely blessed to have it. City studio contains all my archives and all my panels and big work and painting supplies and I have much more room to spread out. Especially when I do installation work and I need to test things out before I go into the gallery to install it. It's really quite ideal.

@patricklynch1962

Жыл бұрын

@@MicheleTheberge A good workspace is so important, I have cherished some of the good spaces I've been lucky to have over the years and persevered in the spaces that were almost too tiny to do anything in. Finally got a chance to see what Jess's work was about and his collages are quite fascinating. We apparently listen to some of the same music, though I'd add some neo-classical darkwave to that. My collages probably owe some debt to Max Ernst, but they started because of a painting block I was trying to find a way out of. Today, I came across a video from a young artist that I think would resonate with your spiritual approach to art and being an artist. Wishing you all the very best in your latest work. kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6KhzrmApMKWZZc.html

beautiful space, thanks for sharing :-)

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching and commenting here. 😊

such nice light in your studio!

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

It really is! I feel so blessed!

Thank you for your help!

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

I love this and would copy it to create my studio.

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

I love that!

Hi Michele I know you were saying that you don't use plastic. I just gathered all my colors and separated them placing in gallon freezer bags and then in 1 container, that way when I need the colors I pull them out. We live in humid climates where roaches love cardboard so that kind of doesn't work for me, I do love your space and organization and it's visually in sight for you to access. Thank you for showing us your process.

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Awesome idea! Thanks for sharing. I love hearing how other artists organize their stuff!!

Thank you. This was very good

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! I appreciate hearing from you!

@korukiwiarts

Жыл бұрын

@@MicheleTheberge Your are so welcome. Thank you agaın and have a wonderful new week

I always love your encouragement. My studio began as a corner in the playroom and I didn't call it a studio. It spead out a little more as I had a grand niece who wanted to paint, then a grandsonand we called it the art space. But it still mostly was a playroom for those darling grands. It was crowded and messy as you can imagine. Time came for the toy clear out and expantion of the art space at which point I started calling it my studio. It was lovely and somewhat easy to keep tidy-ish. The next grand niece came along and I became her care giver so some toys returned but she loved painting so she has her own area in the studio. Then the pandemic hit and I became that grand niece's 2nd grade teacher. The studio was pushed back to half the room to make space for our classroom. (I used to teach so a classroom made me very happy.) Since then I've spread back out but it has been a slower process and more difficult to make it anywhere near tidy. It is positively overwhelming and I haven't even been able to tidy up even a small area and move to another small area which is the usual process. Between health issues and the overwhelming mess I've not painted but 1 painting in 5 months. I look forward to following this series. Your encouragement, insight and ideas are helpful to me. I did enjoy your Unfolding of a Painting series. Apologies for such a long comment. Thank you for the help you give through your videos.

@LyndseyMacPherson

Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! What a lovely comment! And what an exciting space you have. Overwhelm and health issues aside, that space has a legacy now, and it can breathe again! Maybe make a plan and marshal your people to help. I'll be watching this series along with you, excited for the encouragement and inspiration, too, because my 'space' also got taken over by pandemic needs, and I'm now working a full-time, exhausting job, so the opportunities to get my studio back seem few. But sharing our stories is so helpful to keep us all going, I think. Sending much love and best wishes for success! 💕

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Hi Kari! No apology necessary. I loved hearing your story. How lovely that you've had all these children to share your space and life with! They can bring such positive creative energy! I certainly can understand that feeling of overwhelm and especially when health issues are involved. I will hold the thought for you of your space tidy and ready to work in again. At least a small corner! I wonder if there is someone who could come help you for an hour just to make some headway. I do that with a friend from time to time. We help each other out with project that we're having trouble with. 💚🌸😊

@karicee1144

Жыл бұрын

@@LyndseyMacPherson thank you for your lovely comment! I do love the room's legacy as you put it. I look forward to following this series along with you.

@karicee1144

Жыл бұрын

@Michele Theberge thank you for your encouragement. I do love that I've been able to share my space and art in various forms with children for so many years (almost 40 years!). I love the cot in your studio. When my house had a variety of people living in it, many times I wished I could have a little space to lie down among my paintings away from everyone for a bit. Now I have the house to myself and my work is spread out through the house, the desire/need for it is gone.

I love this! I have a studio that I’ve been in for 7 years now. We built it so every little detail was planned. One of my favourite things is my big steel tables, TONS of storage underneath!

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Amazing! I’d love to see photos!! Do you have any on instagram? Or if you have any to share you can send them to info@themindfulartist.com

Thank You...I feel the same way when my space is clear and clean... yet I still procrastinate why oh why.. going to try your suggestion of a clean up time at the end of the day😅

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Let us know how it goes, Nancy! So many of us can relate!!

I just hate chaos!

We have moved recently and I had to reorganize my studio and can't get to do something worthy still!

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

It takes some time often when we go through upheaval to get back in the flow. I bet you'll find your rhythm.

Love this new studio walk talk. So much goes on in our studios. Love your place.

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks so much!

HI Michele, First of all I just want to say how beautiful and light-filled that studio is! How wonderful for you! I am excited to see and hear how you do your process, so thank you for starting this series. Since your work is so spirit-inspired, I would love to see how your meditation practice fits into your daily doing art practice. I see your lay-down spot and would love to see how you use it in relation to your process if you are willing to share. My share is that I feel great in clean and organized spaces too and as you know, there has to be beauty and serenity as well. However, I have not quite translated that to my ceramics practice. In part because its sooooo messy ( much more than hair) but also because if I haven't completed a particular part of a project ( throwing, trimming, glazing, etc...) I feel like I am not giving myself the permission to take up space, make a creative mess, or just give myself over to my artistic intuition. In fact, the cleaning up sometimes can be a procrastination from getting to the actually work. I do love to organize, but if Im not careful, I can easily fool myself into thinking that its just as important as the actual making/touching the clay. I think its my excuse to avoid just letting go into the process which can sometimes be scary or uncomfortable especially if its a relatively new journey. Later, I can feel bad that I piddled around and haven't used my time wisely. Sometimes there is more organizing than making. Its kind of like not cooking because then you just have to clean it all up again. So, I am weighing your experience with what I experience and wondering how to balance it all or find a happy medium? And now I wonder if this is where the conscious choice to include touching in with the innerself/guides comes in? I'd love to have a deeper delve into that in relation to art making. I do not have a practice that is consciously attached to my art making, even though the expression shows up here and there. Maybe thats my next exploration? Thanks for encouraging shares and questions.

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Wow. Thank you for such a thoughtful and insightful share. I think you bring up a lot of important topics, and I can definitely relate to sometimes the cleaning becoming a procrastination tool. I vacillate between the two it seems, probably more on the side of the messy toddler and I think therein lies the balance just being self-aware And self compassionate. and I don’t often directly meditate in the studio, but I pause a lot and get into that meditative state when I’m unsure of what to do next, so like you I think just having the practice infuses everything that I do indirectly. But I’m sure you find also that the act of creating is its own type of meditation when you get into the flow. That’s the magic -when you can get there! thank you so much for starting this conversation and I hope more people chime in and add their voices to the discussion.

I relate to this so much since I don't have a formal studio yet and use part of my garage as a makeshift studio. Each time I create, I have to restore order. ❤❤❤ your studio space!

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Lurlean! I am so happy to hear that you've carved out a place for your creativity and I'll think of you for inspiration being so diligent about restoring order when I'm tempted to leave my space untidied at the end of the day!

What a lovely studio. I'm still working on organising my craft space but will get there when health allows. Keep inspiring 🙂

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

I understand so much when health interferes with stuff we want to do. Hope you are able to be patient with the process and extra loving and gentle with yourself.

Ok Michelle, are you a Virgo or a Libra? Lol. I've wondered. I'm a messy Gemini/Cancer. I need to clear, organize, and clean my studio before embarking on a project. But the actual art process is messy. Towards the end of the project it looks like a tornado hit a paint factory. But then I clean and start over again.

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Bunny! Are you on the cusp, too? I am a Gemini. Perhaps that’s a Gemini trait. Ha ha!😂

I'm so grateful for you and that you would do this series. ❤‍🩹 So very much need some encouragement right now, so thank you. May blessing be returned to you tenfold for what you give to this community.

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

You are too kind. So here for you! I hope you find some inspiration in some of the playlists in the description box. Also, you may like the book I wrote "Seven Essential Practices for the Professional Artist" I read it as an audiobook on a playlist here or you can download it at www.themindfulartist.com for free. Also available on amazon in paperback.

@MicheleTheberge

Жыл бұрын

Here's the book read aloud. kzread.info/head/PLFNvPfOa2yC50iMu5-ZqkIzkRqSy-ybyW

@LyndseyMacPherson

Жыл бұрын

@@MicheleTheberge Thank you!!!! I have your book (lovely friend bought it for me) and will start reading it TODAY! But an audio version! My days are full, and this will be so helpful. Thank you so much!