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@harmonylvt.bsky.social

LVT, small biz owner, and 🐕 mom, attempting to become a part-time artist.✨ Permanently exhausted pigeon. 30+👵 She/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜 Fandoms: Broadchurch, Doctor Who, Good Omens, Staged + Guilty Pleasure: Old British sitcoms 👀

I think it's hilarious that one of my clients, who also is a dog trainer and constantly refers people to me, is now trying to explore avenues to start doing my job....albeit illegally, per my state's regulations. If she does that, she'll poach ~60-75% of my clients. 😂🫠🤦‍♀️

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Do people still buy hand-drawn cards these days? I have a bug to try to make a couple of little hand-drawn cards prior to the holiday season, but I'm not sure: 1) whether people would be interested/buy them; 2) how to price them (medium = colored pencil). Also not sure of what subjects to choose! 😅

Obsessed with this tiny sketch I just did in about 5 minutes of a Rose of Sharon blossom in our garden. I've wanted to try that sketching style of not lifting your pencil through the whole sketch. I didn't quite make it the whole way through doing that, but mostly yes! It was so fun! 🤩

Graphite sketch of a Rose of Sharon blossom.

Because I'm really quite proud of how it's looking so far (and just a wee bit overexcited 😂), here's a sneaky peek at my current work in progress. This is from my own reference photo, and it's quite special to me - featuring my dog, Piccolo, with a reflection of my late kitty, Queenie, in his eye. 🥺

Work in progress of a dog eye study in colored pencils on drafting film. A beautiful orangish-yellow and brown dog eye features a reflection of a black cat sitting on a deck railing, with blue sky surrounding her. The fur is in the early stages, but features blue and rusty red tones mixed in with the black and white.

At what point in the *trying to become a part-time artist* pipeline is it appropriate to create a little social media account to promote one's work?? I'm currently learning/re-learning colored pencils and trying to get various things under my belt prior to officially 'opening for business.' 😅