Not to worry about having anything specific on your table or bringing anything fancy. What you regularly work with will be great & if you wanted to try a new medium or play with something else while we are live, enjoy it, it is your time!

What you really need to play along:

1. Your favourite art supplies
2. A little time to join us
3. All your comfort items

What I regularly have on my table:

My table is always a little messy as that is the way I like it & I always know where my projects are heading as a lot of them happen all at once. If you have a studio & work from home you'll know what I mean 😊 My friend Tessie calls the half done, almost there projects "the messy-middle"

Okay, here we go. What I play with from time to time & that is generally on or near my table:

• a soft cloth to warm up the area under my things
• a candle to give an ambient light
• a diffuser nobody ever gets to see as it is off camera
• a small watercolour palette with 6 Daniel Smith tube colours
• a stack of tissues or blotting towels
• a water container or two to rinse the paint brushes
• a few pointed round synthetic paint brushes
• a water brush just for the ease & fun of it
• a pencil or a pen to jot down some notes or draw
• sometimes an extra watercolour palette... you never know
• sometimes a pencil case/bag with all sorts of arty goodies
• sometimes my watercolour pencils or regular colour pencils
• sometimes there's a guest in the studio & we play with their supplies
• many times someone brings me a warm cup of tea to drink with an occasional snack
• many times we play gentle, calming music in the background
• many times there's a blanket on my lap because it is cold here on most days
• many times my mobile phone is close by with notifications turned off

Other fun things:

• my drinking bottle for hydration
• the block-timer for productivity
• the frog to remind to do the difficult things first
• a small bottle of rose, bergamot & rosemary essential oils I blended for myself
• and the hardware like the PC screen, speakers, snowball mic, my diary & lipstick

In the bookcases behind me you'll find:

• colouring books that I collect but never add colour to
• watercolour journals & paper Conrad bring for me when he travels for work
• my sketchbook journals & published books
• files for sketchbook ideas, Reiki healing, short course I completed & admin
• hidden away are my fabric & wallpaper samples, sewing machine & sewing projects are hidden below

Lesson Activity

Watch the Studio reveal video clip here after the previous clean-up & wallpaper renovation... A little bit of messiness is perfectly normal & a whole lot of mess shows you have things going on!