we are on the same boat. it seems no matter how far we are all are "creatives" ...how similar we are... I'm a 55-year-old artist, MTB Biker and photographer (among other things) from the beautiful Twin Islands of Trinidad and Tobago
I love the way you talk through your process and are how it comes across as you being gentle with yourself in the ebbs and flows of your creativity. I've been trying get into my own side hustle/intentional art practice and you've been serving as a huge inspiration for me. Thank you for your work!!
The people do indeed love the Nora shots! I also loved the footage from your trip. I'm an American living in a large metropolis in Germany, and these desert shots remind me that there are indeed places that feel like they haven't been touched/modified by human hands.
This is literally the best content format for me any my mental health. Thank you for making my medical bedrest SO good it's enjoyable. Sending so much love from my room to yours!! Glad I found you now!
Your studio vlogs are my favorite :) Thanks for keeping it real and showing the reality of distraction and what a normal human being can do in one day! The painted books are such a cute idea for a personal project, I totally agree that low-pressure projects like that are what helps keep me sane and ready to work on the big stuff.
these days were not the best for me ( I have been trying to make and sell my art but failed lol) and your videos were like a breeze of fresh air , your vibes and what you do is amazing
This is the first video of yours that I saw and I really like it❤ your skull paintings are awesome 💥😍 thank you for the ideas of some new hobbies to try 🥰
I love how TH-cam takes me down rabbit holes and lead me to you today. I'm an avid hiker and your trip to the desert with those incredible vistas and colours is pushing me in yet another direction for this year's big trip 🤩 I live in the South of France and we have a mini canyon up the road but I've never visited the desert. Hmmmmm 🏜️
You are the first young artist I have found that I relate with. The scene in the canyon oozing at the work of the ones that came before and pondering if the same drive, drove your passion, was that point. You get what this need to make marks is… Keep it up my tribe mate. I steward a land next to a river where the lives of the ancients is still very visible. It inspires me in ways that cause me to ponder as you did across thousands of years…
Instant Subscribe. . This video made feel alive. Seeing all your different creative outputs Inspired my Soul to say, YES I AM AN ARTIST. Thank you. Deep gratitude. I trust that all your generativity will bring you unlimited abundance in life. Hope you stickers, art, pottery, podcast, patreon, doodles, wooden blocks of books, and anything and everything you do feeds your body, mind and soul as much and more as it has inspired me and countless others!
That tombow pen is my absolute favorite and is my go to! I always have to stop myself from purging and organizing cause once I start I can't stop and that's all I focus on too 😆 "I hope there's flowers blooming where you are" I love that and might save that for a future design 🌷
Here from a Kathleen Illustrated video where she mentioned your channel so I took a peek, only to realize you're a Utah artist just like me! (Graphic Designer, full-time at a company though) I'm also from Utah around SLC! Hi, neighbor! It's so awesome to be reminded of how awesome the indie and local artist scene here is. You create some rad stuff!
One of your best yet. I really enjoyed seeing you do more than one project especially the botanical painting on your camping trip. I feel so inspired after watching your vids
Came across this channel this week and ur mindset to art helped me to feel more positive over my own progress in my own art journey. Thanks for creating such a cool little chill place and on the internet net!
Asking me to pick a favorite part? Impossible! I enjoy seeing what you are willing to share in the format you wish to. It’s like being brought along with a friend ❤
These mugs are so cute! It makes me want to enroll into ceramic classes I found in my area and make some for myself. This was incredibly peaceful but entertaining to watch. I had a great time :) would love more Nora in next one!
The idea with fake books is so fun. I been meaning to make dummies for books I’m writing/planning to write to inspire myself more into consistency but now I’m also thinking it would be so fun if all these pretend books someone turned into real ones that would be sm fun!
I’m so inspired when I watch your videos. Idek how to explain it but I feel more open and accepting of new things and then you upload a video and I’m like wow I didn’t know I needed that. Jm
poetry reading poster is incredible and the sketchbook spread from the desert is perfect perfect perfect! Thanks for letting me hang in your studio/ thanks for coming to hang in my studio (:
These videos are so nice to watch. I was doing a little bit of personal writing/journaling while I watched this video 😊 the fake books were definitely my favorite part, your art style is one of my favorites
I came across your channel tonight and I loved your creativity and your Art. The fake books! Wow I'm headed to the Goodwill to get started on mine! Thanks for sharing. I just subscribed.
Great vlog as always Kristen. I’m really loving the poster work you’ve been doing. Looks like your trip was so fun. Lower Utah has been on my bucket list for so long. Time to make it happen mwah 💋
Thank Kris. I only found you and subbed a month or so ago. Love your art, attitude, humour! I love that you have love and support around you. I loved this video. I'm slowly looking back through your content 😊x Nell.
I've said it before, but yours are practically the only studio vlogs I bother to watch. This one was breathtaking as always, the art and the scenery! So jelly. 😍❤️😭 "I hope there's flowers blooming where you are." Well... /looks at the 4 inches of ice covering everything that isn't covered by a foot of snow/ Not really, no. But we'll get there, maybe next month. 😫
I randomly found this video as I'm starting an early morning as an illustrator and wanted a bit of inspiration, omg! It was immaculate and the vibesss I've instantly become one of the people that clicked the Subscribe button
i've only just discovered your channel and i am just so happy to have found your art, and your videos! also so many things you mentioned, resonate with me it feel a little like i'm watching myself.lol. so happy to binge watch ALL of the videos on your channel
I binged all your videos recently bc I just love your energy and your artwork. I love seeing your process and adventures, it's really inspired me to make more art. I feel like I've been looser and more experimental and less down on myself for making "mistakes". Thanks so much for that.
I just recently found your page, and am SO GLAD I did. This video was great, as is your art! This felt so lovely and authentic and yes. I’m done now. But thank you for sharing all of this!
Hi Kristen, I found your channel a few weeks ago and have watched all of your vlogs since… I just had to say that you are so wonderful and have inspired me to create without judgment and for joy in a new way. Also you always make me laugh and are so funny in the most lovely, cutest, authentic way! ❤ I hope you are feeling well. I’m sending all my love from the UK! x
P.S there is a Georgia O’Keefe doc on TH-cam called By myself, that is very inspiring. It might make you wanna go full dirtbag in the desert though, fair warning ☺️ (I live in my van in Wales, UK)
Here from a Kathleen Illustrated video and love the vibe! This is perfect to watch while also making art, I'll definitely be sticking around to watch more.
have you ever tried larger plein air painting in any of the beautiful locations you’ve traveled to? your sketches are so gorgeous i can only imagine what you’d create on a canvas! this was yet another lovely video thank you for sharing!!❤
I absolutely love the book idea!! I must do this! It could be a fun way to make as a prop for a book you are working on too. Loved this vlog! I have grown out a buzzed pixie cut too, you've got this, be strong, I love the haircut!
Hola, I decided to start my very first sketch book at the ripe (young) age of 47, because of your sketch book vids.🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thanks for the inspiration!!!! Ps: The first sketch pad I purchased had very thin paper so I decided to do pen only doodles and I too love doing multiples of my sketches 🐸. Thanks again for your inspiration. 🤎.
Hi, good morning It's 3:15 am in Trinidad. I got home from work on Monday evening, (after a very Hectic Father's Day weekend, to busy work Monday. I am a 55-year-old photographer working for the government of my country. I had to do hectic assignments, in the morning and evening, when I got home I just crashed, got back up around 1:00am and while taking in a live TH-cam recording of Beenie Man in concert on my phone on TH-cam I decided to come on the desktop to hear it through my computer speakers... Your Vlog was on the Home feed and here I am... I love the content. I am a progressing traditional artist, learning digital art using the iPad and Procreate, and I am an upcoming videographer. I am due to travel soon and I would like to have a small art exhibition in July before I leave on a new creative mindset in another country. Your Studio Vlog is a great help and inspiration... thank you for this and I hope to do something similar soon. my other channel is JIB Media Concepts. Keep inspiring other creatives like myself.
I always love the music you use in your videos! obsessed with the fake books too, they remind me of a story my Dad told me about a teacher that used to set impossible essays as punishment, like "2000 words on life inside a ping pong ball" lol
I watched one video and subscribed.😊I'm going to binge-watch your other videos now. 😃 I'm also an artist, although I haven't really pursued it yet. When I had to decide what to do, I chose media design because it seemed to make more sense. However, I haven't been working in that field for years. My enthusiasm for drawing and painting comes and goes. You've inspired me to give it another try. When you draw animals, do you use references? I get the impression from many TH-camrs that they draw everything from memory, which intimidates me a lot. I can't do that at all. But often, you don't see the reference and the finished picture in the TH-cam-World🤷♀️
"i am a human made up of hobbies" is the most relatable thing I've ever heard
Sooo relatable 😂
Hahaha YES!! (also hello great name you have)
Came to the comments to comment this!!
hahhah hello!!@@angelicavis
word!
You are my people. That camping trip??? With the art supplies????? biking into the canyons????? Heaven.
paint and pedal babyyyyy!!!
we are on the same boat. it seems no matter how far we are all are "creatives" ...how similar we are... I'm a 55-year-old artist, MTB Biker and photographer (among other things) from the beautiful Twin Islands of Trinidad and Tobago
I feel so inspired after watching this
Aw thanks so much Tammy! I love your videos 🫶🏻
So happy to see an artist working with tools on paper to begin the process- makes a real difference 👌
Here from Kathleen’s (Kathleen Illustrated) video ❤ I’m very glad she send people over, because this video is right up my alley!!
the vibes of this video were just so good. I feel so inspired now 💫
I love the way you talk through your process and are how it comes across as you being gentle with yourself in the ebbs and flows of your creativity. I've been trying get into my own side hustle/intentional art practice and you've been serving as a huge inspiration for me. Thank you for your work!!
Aw I'm so glad to hear that, thank you!
The people do indeed love the Nora shots! I also loved the footage from your trip. I'm an American living in a large metropolis in Germany, and these desert shots remind me that there are indeed places that feel like they haven't been touched/modified by human hands.
aw, I love that! I definitely get overwhelmed by city life sometimes, so I feel that!
This is literally the best content format for me any my mental health. Thank you for making my medical bedrest SO good it's enjoyable. Sending so much love from my room to yours!! Glad I found you now!
Your idea of little fun projects in between your larger work is so inspiring! I will definitely try the fake book idea 😊
Your studio vlogs are my favorite :) Thanks for keeping it real and showing the reality of distraction and what a normal human being can do in one day! The painted books are such a cute idea for a personal project, I totally agree that low-pressure projects like that are what helps keep me sane and ready to work on the big stuff.
I'm glad TH-cam suggested your video. You're authentic and inspirational. Thank you.
these days were not the best for me ( I have been trying to make and sell my art but failed lol) and your videos were like a breeze of fresh air , your vibes and what you do is amazing
What a cool side ‘just for fun’ project - love the faux books 💕
This is the first video of yours that I saw and I really like it❤ your skull paintings are awesome 💥😍 thank you for the ideas of some new hobbies to try 🥰
Finally TH-cam, you did something right you gave me an interesting wonderful TH-camr to follow.
I love how TH-cam takes me down rabbit holes and lead me to you today. I'm an avid hiker and your trip to the desert with those incredible vistas and colours is pushing me in yet another direction for this year's big trip 🤩 I live in the South of France and we have a mini canyon up the road but I've never visited the desert. Hmmmmm 🏜️
You are the first young artist I have found that I relate with. The scene in the canyon oozing at the work of the ones that came before and pondering if the same drive, drove your passion, was that point. You get what this need to make marks is… Keep it up my tribe mate. I steward a land next to a river where the lives of the ancients is still very visible. It inspires me in ways that cause me to ponder as you did across thousands of years…
love your vlogs, so chill and always love to see your trips and the nature shots! it's always cool to see the influence of where we live on our art!
thats so good to hear! I love where I live
Instant Subscribe. . This video made feel alive. Seeing all your different creative outputs Inspired my Soul to say, YES I AM AN ARTIST. Thank you. Deep gratitude. I trust that all your generativity will bring you unlimited abundance in life. Hope you stickers, art, pottery, podcast, patreon, doodles, wooden blocks of books, and anything and everything you do feeds your body, mind and soul as much and more as it has inspired me and countless others!
"we're gonna finish it .. I'M gonna finish it. Idk what you're gonna do" Valid😩🤣
I love your videos!! You art is so inspiring for me as a painter. I loved the mugs also!! Love to watch you paint so much!!!🤗
That tombow pen is my absolute favorite and is my go to! I always have to stop myself from purging and organizing cause once I start I can't stop and that's all I focus on too 😆 "I hope there's flowers blooming where you are" I love that and might save that for a future design 🌷
Gosh this video style is amazing. brings me so much calmness and joy
I also rub my canvasses before I paint on them, never seen anyone else do it until now!😍
Here from a Kathleen Illustrated video where she mentioned your channel so I took a peek, only to realize you're a Utah artist just like me! (Graphic Designer, full-time at a company though) I'm also from Utah around SLC! Hi, neighbor! It's so awesome to be reminded of how awesome the indie and local artist scene here is. You create some rad stuff!
Aww hi!
Love your vlogs. I recently started a series of mini paintings of various fauna, including a toad, so it was fun watching you draw toads as well.
love your videos and art! bikes, art, pots, colours, the best things, so beautiful 💚
the instrumental cats song really gave me what i didn't know i needed. also loveeee those wood block books 😍
One of your best yet.
I really enjoyed seeing you do more than one project especially the botanical painting on your camping trip.
I feel so inspired after watching your vids
Absolutely obsessed with the skull paintings, they're wonderful! Also the desert footage makes my heart happy so thank you for sharing :))))
Love your work! Those fake books would make great gifts❤️🌈
Came across this channel this week and ur mindset to art helped me to feel more positive over my own progress in my own art journey. Thanks for creating such a cool little chill place and on the internet net!
This might be my favorite video so far. So many wonderful inspirations!
aw, yay! Thank you!
Your vlogs are kind of calm and intresting to watch on, also love your canvas paintings! 😍😍
Asking me to pick a favorite part? Impossible! I enjoy seeing what you are willing to share in the format you wish to. It’s like being brought along with a friend ❤
These mugs are so cute! It makes me want to enroll into ceramic classes I found in my area and make some for myself. This was incredibly peaceful but entertaining to watch. I had a great time :) would love more Nora in next one!
Same! I cannot feel the creativity quite the same way unless I have some real paper in front of me and a set of tactile drawing supplies!
I freaking LOVE the painting book idea man. I’m thinking of starting art vlogs and this has given me so much motivation 😂❤
dooo it its fun
It was so good to watch this vlog. It just reminded me, when I use to draw. I'll go back to this hobbie. This video was motivating.
Your art is absolutely beautiful !! I love the relaxing vibes in your videos 🥰
The pottery...OMG.. Love your final product with the wax and glaze. Love!!
Thanks so much! 😊
The idea with fake books is so fun. I been meaning to make dummies for books I’m writing/planning to write to inspire myself more into consistency but now I’m also thinking it would be so fun if all these pretend books someone turned into real ones that would be sm fun!
I’m so inspired when I watch your videos. Idek how to explain it but I feel more open and accepting of new things and then you upload a video and I’m like wow I didn’t know I needed that. Jm
Aw that is so sweet, thank you 🤍
poetry reading poster is incredible and the sketchbook spread from the desert is perfect perfect perfect! Thanks for letting me hang in your studio/ thanks for coming to hang in my studio (:
anytime bb :-)
These videos are so nice to watch. I was doing a little bit of personal writing/journaling while I watched this video 😊 the fake books were definitely my favorite part, your art style is one of my favorites
thank you!! Sounds like a lovely time
I love the music in this video! (And the art. And those landscapes on the canyon trip…. Ahhhh! So much to love 😊)
ahh thank you!!
I came across your channel tonight and I loved your creativity and your Art. The fake books! Wow I'm headed to the Goodwill to get started on mine! Thanks for sharing. I just subscribed.
Yay, thank you!!
The Books are so cool! I wanna make fake books now 😄 also I love your poster about the salt lake birds 😊
Great vlog as always Kristen. I’m really loving the poster work you’ve been doing. Looks like your trip was so fun. Lower Utah has been on my bucket list for so long. Time to make it happen mwah 💋
thanks Karen, you definitely should! Southern Utah is wild, it feels like you're on a different planet!
I would paint that table in a cold green, like Statue of Liberty. Love your painting by the way 👌 Please a little more on your cat 😻
Thank Kris. I only found you and subbed a month or so ago. Love your art, attitude, humour! I love that you have love and support around you. I loved this video. I'm slowly looking back through your content 😊x Nell.
Aw thanks Nell!
@@littletinyegg 👍🧡
Kathleen Illustrated recommended your channel and I'm glad to have found it!
I've said it before, but yours are practically the only studio vlogs I bother to watch. This one was breathtaking as always, the art and the scenery! So jelly. 😍❤️😭
"I hope there's flowers blooming where you are."
Well... /looks at the 4 inches of ice covering everything that isn't covered by a foot of snow/ Not really, no. But we'll get there, maybe next month. 😫
I wasn’t subscribed this entire time?!?? I’m shocked, thank you for the sweet reminder 🤲🏽
I randomly found this video as I'm starting an early morning as an illustrator and wanted a bit of inspiration, omg! It was immaculate and the vibesss I've instantly become one of the people that clicked the Subscribe button
i've only just discovered your channel and i am just so happy to have found your art, and your videos! also so many things you mentioned, resonate with me it feel a little like i'm watching myself.lol. so happy to binge watch ALL of the videos on your channel
Aw I'm so glad, welcome to the channel!!
Now I want to make wood books for my room too. Maybe some wooden comic books and manga as well.
I binged all your videos recently bc I just love your energy and your artwork. I love seeing your process and adventures, it's really inspired me to make more art. I feel like I've been looser and more experimental and less down on myself for making "mistakes". Thanks so much for that.
aw this makes me so happy to hear, thank you!
I just recently found your page, and am SO GLAD I did. This video was great, as is your art! This felt so lovely and authentic and yes. I’m done now. But thank you for sharing all of this!
Aw thank you so much! ☺️
I love the pink skull painting soooooooo much 🖤
Hi Kristen, I found your channel a few weeks ago and have watched all of your vlogs since… I just had to say that you are so wonderful and have inspired me to create without judgment and for joy in a new way. Also you always make me laugh and are so funny in the most lovely, cutest, authentic way! ❤ I hope you are feeling well. I’m sending all my love from the UK! x
P.S there is a Georgia O’Keefe doc on TH-cam called By myself, that is very inspiring. It might make you wanna go full dirtbag in the desert though, fair warning ☺️ (I live in my van in Wales, UK)
I've seen the doc! It is so good and definitely made me want to move to the desert. thank you so much!
I missed the premier but I love your studio and the way the video is all done and put together ❤
"Join us, JOIN US" this was so for me. Ive been watching you for sometime now and i JUST now saw I wasn't part of the fam
aww welcome !! >:)
Here from a Kathleen Illustrated video and love the vibe! This is perfect to watch while also making art, I'll definitely be sticking around to watch more.
top shelf vlog *chefs kiss* I find ur stuff so inspiring
What a lovely video! I must also make painted novels out of Live Laugh Love blocks -- amazing hack!
This i so calming to watch. Thank you for taking us through your day :) I love your art style btw!
i love the fake book idea! i wanna get back into painting and try that :D
Really well made video :) I’m still learning haha. The trip looked so relaxing and inspiring 😊
Omg!! I love the fake book idea. I will try it :)
I'm still just so in awe of the couch ❤️
such a great find
Made my day! Beautiful work Kristen 😊
I love your background music and this channel ❤❤❤
I love the hair!
I love your fake books
I think YOU are the favorite part of the video :-) Very inspirering to follow your journey. Thank you for sharing.
:') thank you!
so happy to found the artist/illustrator's channel someone from SLC, UTAaaaaaHHH!!! i always miss the place. enjoying your channel from South Korea!
Love your vlog! Thank you ❤
Thanks for watching!
This was actually an absolutely perfect video I didn’t expect so much inspo from one vlog ty very much ur art is so pretty.
have you ever tried larger plein air painting in any of the beautiful locations you’ve traveled to? your sketches are so gorgeous i can only imagine what you’d create on a canvas! this was yet another lovely video thank you for sharing!!❤
I've only really done paintings on paper outside! but I want to do more!
You are exactly what I needed as of late 😊 hobbies are us 😂
I absolutely love the book idea!! I must do this! It could be a fun way to make as a prop for a book you are working on too. Loved this vlog! I have grown out a buzzed pixie cut too, you've got this, be strong, I love the haircut!
Also, how did you get those rainbows on your wall in the light?? Omg!
its a rainbow maker window sticker I got at an art market! I want to make some though!
@@littletinyegg that is so awesome! I will have to find some local, or like you said, maybe try my hand at them, thank you so much!
I love your videos so much 💗💗💗💗
thank you!
i love your videos!! they’re so inspiring and have helped get me out of my art block :)
I'm so glad! Thank you!
can you do a art supplies tour of all your faforite products and the ones you have talked about in the sketchbook tour?
I can make a new one but I made a “my favorite art supplies” video about a year ago!
oh i didnt see that! but it would be very nice if you could do a new one🌸
omg!! the cups texture ufff i wanna hold it
Hola,
I decided to start my very first sketch book at the ripe (young) age of 47, because of your sketch book vids.🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for the inspiration!!!!
Ps: The first sketch pad I purchased had very thin paper so I decided to do pen only doodles and I too love doing multiples of my sketches 🐸.
Thanks again for your inspiration.
🤎.
aw that makes me so happy! Thank you!
Love your work so much!! Thank you for sharing
Hi, good morning It's 3:15 am in Trinidad. I got home from work on Monday evening, (after a very Hectic Father's Day weekend, to busy work Monday. I am a 55-year-old photographer working for the government of my country. I had to do hectic assignments, in the morning and evening, when I got home I just crashed, got back up around 1:00am and while taking in a live TH-cam recording of Beenie Man in concert on my phone on TH-cam I decided to come on the desktop to hear it through my computer speakers... Your Vlog was on the Home feed and here I am... I love the content. I am a progressing traditional artist, learning digital art using the iPad and Procreate, and I am an upcoming videographer. I am due to travel soon and I would like to have a small art exhibition in July before I leave on a new creative mindset in another country. Your Studio Vlog is a great help and inspiration... thank you for this and I hope to do something similar soon. my other channel is JIB Media Concepts. Keep inspiring other creatives like myself.
The ADHD part was sooooo relatable. Omg.
love you thank you for the nice message at the end::3
This is so good, I love it ☺☺☺
First time watching your videos, I really enjoyed it. Love your work. See you again. 😊❤
Yay! Another lovely video from my favorite youtuber!
youre so talented! very impressive
I always love the music you use in your videos! obsessed with the fake books too, they remind me of a story my Dad told me about a teacher that used to set impossible essays as punishment, like "2000 words on life inside a ping pong ball" lol
thank you! Picking the music is my favorite part of editing. hahah that sounds like a good teacher
I watched one video and subscribed.😊I'm going to binge-watch your other videos now. 😃
I'm also an artist, although I haven't really pursued it yet. When I had to decide what to do, I chose media design because it seemed to make more sense. However, I haven't been working in that field for years. My enthusiasm for drawing and painting comes and goes. You've inspired me to give it another try. When you draw animals, do you use references? I get the impression from many TH-camrs that they draw everything from memory, which intimidates me a lot. I can't do that at all. But often, you don't see the reference and the finished picture in the TH-cam-World🤷♀️
sooo entertaining and inspiring i absolutely loved watching this video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Omg….. love your vlog in south korea💕💕당신의 영상을 보게되어 기뻐요. 다음 영상도 기다릴게요!