Restart slowed down : the liberating power of slow art.
Keeping up with the frantic pace of social networks and algorithms… ending up with burn-out. But what if this was a good thing? Slow down, breathe, create.
The Dreaming Blog
Happy New Year 2025 with colorful projects
Happy New Year 2025 to all you dear readers!
I wish you all the best for 2025, and hope that it will be a much better year than 2024.
I hope that this new year will be much kinder and more positive than the last, or as far as I’m concerned: than the previous ONES.
An unfortunate absence and a colourful return
As you may have noticed, I had disappeared from this blog since the article on my capsulitis and the forced cessation of my activity for over a year.
If you don’t know what capsulitis is, I refer you to the relevant article.
The reasons for the lack of activity on this blog
What exactly has happened since this article on the temporary cessation of my activity?
Wasn’t I supposed to return to work gradually, in Autumn 2024, thanks to intensive physiotherapy sessions?
New, time-consuming responsibilities
For the last few months, I’ve been the sole carer for my grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and to whom I’m the only relative.
This means that I have to look after the upkeep of her home (repairs, problems with the landline, electricity, plumbing, roof, boiler, etc.), her administrative formalities, her social, health and medical care, the organisation of care workers and carers, the ordering of groceries and their delivery to her home, and so on.
Suffice to say that my days are full and my working time is once again, unfortunately, limited.
Obviously, this blog and the social networks have been the first to take a hit.
And yet I had plans for a bunch of different articles!
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Art and Injury: How to do a professional reboot
Hello everyone who visits this site,Today I’m back with an article about “How to do a professional reboot“. If you subscribe to my blog, you’ll… Read More »Art and Injury: How to do a professional reboot
My artworks in progress : nose on the grindstone
Hello dear readers,
And welcome to my blog if you are new here.
Following my last readings I wanted to do an article in which I would have talked about Art, Illustration, Reproducibility and Walter Benjamin.
But unfortunately the lack of time forced me to postpone this project.
So I’m just dropping by to give some news and talk a bit about the projects I’m working on in this month of April 2022.
“We’re all mad here!” exclusive march 2022 Artworks
Hello dear readers
I hope you are well despite this sad world falling apart…
I’m back today to present you my Patreon exclusive creations for March…
There’s a lot to say about them, but I’ll try to keep it short, simple and not too specific as some things have to be reserved for my Patreon subscribers.
It’s hard to know what to say and on which platform…
How do you manage to be everywhere without repeating the same thing over and over again and giving priority to loyal subscribers?
Well, that’s another topic.
Let’s go !
Less stickers, more eco-aware creativity
Today, dear readers, on the menu: “When too many stickers are too many stickers”.
You’re probably thinking, “What is she looking for, what kind of stupid topic is this?“
No, I assure you, it’s not a random “put-a-click“, but a real reflection on the “raison d’être” and the usefulness of the stickers we print over and over.
And when I say “we“, I mean, I must confess, “we illustrators” with a shop and/or a Patreon.
Everyone makes stickers.
Some are made of brown or recycled paper, but most of the time they are plastic.
Ultimate fibre optic installation for a smooth move
Hello everyone,
It’s been a while since I posted anything new on my blog, and for a good reason: I moved!
Goodbye Toulouse, hello Tarn countryside!
Very naively, I thought I would be able to resume my professional activities from the first of March, but that was until the unexpected and fiber network connection problems…
The Crippled Phoenix Syndrome
Welcome to the Blog part of this site that I’m starting with a very appropriate subject:
The phoenix crippled syndrome or “getting your old personal page to make your pro site with WordPress is not always a good idea”.
Especially when your provider is “Free” a French telecommunications company.
Why make it simple when you can make it complicated, you may ask?
If I had been a little bit (delete as appropriate) lazy/rich/computer literate, I could have created my site on any other address than this one.
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