'Home In You' 🧸💗💐 sharing creative process

"Anywhere feels like home when I'm with you."

👑Part of the 'With You' series🎨

Piece Title: Home in You 
Size: 18" x 24"
Materials: acrylic, gesso and oil paint on a canvas sheet

completed Nov.14.2023 

Other Process Work! 

Here's where it started and where it ended up.



💌 May's sticker looks like this:

I ended up really loving this one !! I hope you like it too...! isn't the canvas texture kind of charming? :o)

If you want to get this sticker this time, be sure to sign up for the tier before the end of May, that's when I do my mail outs!

You can now buy this piece as a fine art print on my shop!
I'll also put any leftover stickers up there at a later date if you miss this release!
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Thank you for your support!

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all my love,

LITTLELIST


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TRANSCRIPT:

[same as CC but written out for you]

(intro // 00:24-01:16)
Hihi! In this video , I'll be showing another timelapse!   This piece is one of my first larger oil pieces. I took a long time with this one. I feel like I started it, and I would take a break, and then start again, and then at some point I even stepped away for a road trip and then came back to it - lol  just a lot of adjustment periods in this one painting. It was also basically my first time painting in oils at such a large size so I feel like I was still figuring out my workflow and was running into frustrations here and there but ultimately I learned a lot and I absolutely love how it came out- I think it's my favorite piece I've ever done so far and... I'm excited to show you the timelapse!

(timelapse //  VO starts at 2:16) Hi guys, so we are continuing on with these voice-overs... maybe one day I will start a voice over recording without me talking about it being a voice over.. but I hope you've been liking these kinds of backstory context things I've been doing so far! I've noticed that I've been getting a bit more comfortable with doing them, so that's nice...  This painting was my first big oil piece! I wanted to paint a big, sweet, whimsical, Totoro-style scene with the bear and the little princess.  Often I love to paint the bear very very big- and this is another one of those instances. And I felt a Totoro-style composition was classic and fitting for characters with size difference like these guys.  : )

I was nervous at first, and also unsure about my initial choices, you can see them develop in the timelapse, I change the colors a few time, I cover things here and there. I also started not on a bare canvas- I didn't end up recording the beginning of the painting.. but I started with some blotches of acrylic paint and primer. (I don't know why I didn't record the beginning, it was probably because I was still getting used to doing timelapses regularly.. and this was quite early in my timeline) But yeah, I was also getting frustrated with how long it takes for oils to dry, which is silly I know because the whole point of oils is to take a longer time but I was starting out and moving from acrylic to oils and it was just a thing that was frustrating for me. The main annoying thing about the drying time was that most of my details were in the center of the canvas sheet- so I had a hard time reaching them without a shaky arm or leaning on the painting itself. I was learning that oil painting requires a lot of patience.... but I started to get the hang of it, and now I'm actually really enjoying that it's a very slow medium- it's kind of the opposite of my day job, so it's kind of nice. The details were the most fun to do in this piece, I feel like the color really bloomed once I added the flowers and grass details, and the little blanket on the bear's tummy. During this painting, I also experimented with sponges and trying to apply thin layers and glazes of paint, kind of similar to how I'd use overlay layers and opacity settings to warm colors in places in digital art. And I'm really happy with how it turned out!  This is the piece among my personal series that really sparked my motivation to keep creating paintings with these characters, and to continue building on this little world.    Emotionally, when I had the idea to paint this scene- I was doing a lot of starting sketches of visualizations of how my partners make me feel. And that was really the beginning of this personal series- one of the series titles that I considered was actually literally "How You Make Me Feel" but I ended up going with something a little more concise and broad. But this painting, really is just inspired by my husband (my nesting partner) and our trips together, our time together- and how comfortable he makes me feel. I really feel like he is the embodiment of 'home' for me...and I feel like I get to access that warmth in this piece and that makes me very happy. So, I hope that you like it as well and once again, thanks for listening to me ramble.

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