I don’t have a cat 😭 so here’s a silly little warm up crayon drawing of my friend’s cat before getting into illustration work #caturday

Crocheting a blanket with scrap pinks (and a lil blue) from my yarn stash. It’s a commission from my 17 year old daughter. It’s Saturday and sunny. I wish I had a cat to post for caturday. But I have crafts! Maybe I’ll draw a cat instead later today.. After a relaxing morning I need to get back to an illustration project I’m doing in the weekends. But my brain needs some #crochet and TV first.

I used to teach #Arthistory and write reviews of exhibitions sometimes. I guess I had some feel for what and who was trending in the art world like 15-20 years ago. I just read news about who was awarded some work grants this year, and I have never heard of any of them. It seems I'm very out of touch. I'm having exhibitions myself, although I'm just a "Sunday painter" and rarely apply for grants. It's now obvious that I'm not at all in that same "art world" as the people who receive grants 😅

According to my self-imposed schedule (because I have people waiting for me to deliver next week) I'm supposed to #write on an article today. I'm even feeling pretty motivated to get into it. But still... looking at everything else but the article. While time is running out. Or is it? It's sunny outside and smells like Spring. And the best thing today was my crow friend who seems to appear every March outside my window. I think my friend is looking for ants to eat.

Bought some flowers today because of good work news for my partner. Times are hard and we have to celebrate every glimmer of hope. My partner is new in this country and also faces racism and finding any little gap in the work market is near impossible when we also have the worst unemployment situation in the EU now. So cheers to a ”yes” finally for an internship after searching for 3 months.

Yo. Nils Bielke was a tough guy with a lace collar, pretty silk bow around his chest and an absolutely perfectly fluffed beard. Can’t wait to get to the coloring so I can highlight that precious lace and beard. #illustration #history

If it was still February today I would have 12 migraine days for the month, which is luckily about 2-3 days less after I started regular swimming. Although this month I missed out on 2 weeks swimming due to a long flu. Basically the migraines keep being on the same level the past 2-3 years, but swimming can sometimes offset the attack a little, or just improve my mood and bring some temporary relief. #chronicmigraine #perimenopause

I’m following cat-hashtags here and enjoying the cat pics. But sometimes I miss having a cat so much it hurts my heart. I grew up with a cat. We even had kittens one year, a core childhood memory. When I was around 12-13 years I obsessively drew cats. I’m dreaming of painting more cat paintings again, having a whole cat painting exhibition. But I cannot have a cat at home right now mostly because I can’t afford a pet, but also my oldest child is allergic. He loves cats too despite that.