End of February Check-in
We’re a week away from the end of February and things have been busy in the studio. I finally decided to figure out how to send out email reminders with my blog posts (it really wasn’t all that hard, I just procrastinated), so if you’re here reading my bi-monthly update/check-in because of my email, leave me a comment saying hi! I probably haven’t spoken to you in a while and it’d be great to hear from you! As a reminder, because I don’t really like oversharing with strangers, this blog will be private and password protected.
If you try to open this blog post in the browser and it asks for a password, its ‘bonvoyage’.
So if you’re reading this, it means that I’ve personally given you the link to the blog and the password because I feel comfortable sharing this level of information with you and want to stay connected with you. This is implied, but let me be explicit: Please don’t share my blog with others. There may be a moment in time where I will feel comfortable sharing this with a broader audience of people I don’t know, but that moment is not now. If you do want to share my artwork and progress with your friends and family (which I would really appreciate if you did), you can always show them my Instagram account (@margaret.luo.art), my TikTok (@margaret.luo.art), or my general website link (margaretluoart.com) and they can sign up for email updates outside of this blog. I’m also hoping that, by keeping this blog private to those I have directly shared it with, you’ll feel encouraged and comfortable to comment on my posts, using your first name, so I know who’s talking to me. So please do comment! The artist life has been a little lonely, especially since I’m in a pretty heads down period where I’m building out a body of artwork and painting a lot.
What I’m working on
I’m in various stages of multiple paintings from the series of California Highway One coastal paintings. I think by the end, I want to have six or seven paintings in the whole series.
I also started to paint some floral paintings because it’s kind of springtime here in northern California. It’s not quite consistently warm, but the flowers are starting to bloom and I feel inspired to paint flowers.
Inputs
I finished reading Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, which I think has helped me focus on working on one thing at a time and not feel pressured to fill up my day with a bunch of different tasks. I’ve accepted that there are an infinite number of things that I could be doing with my time and that I’ll never be able to do them all, so I now just stick to picking one thing and then committing a lot of time and undivided attention to it.
Outputs
I spent a long weekend in SF with family and it was a nice break to get out of the studio and have a change in schedule. I don’t go up to the city that much, mostly because it feels far away, but I enjoyed my time there and I feel refreshed!
That’s all for now, I hope you all are doing well!
