by Sue Schlabach | Mar 8, 2024 | In the Studio, Vermont
Walker Hill, Fable Farm, and More Swallows In February I traveled to Kochi in Kerala, India, for 10 days of bold color, rich connections, and a renewed appreciation for leaping out of my comfort zone. I came home to mud season and sent pictures of snow and frozen...
by Sue Schlabach | Jan 10, 2020 | Artisanal Living, Chickens, Family
The last months of 2019 are in the rearview mirror, and I’m happy to have them behind me. I leave that time a little bruised and vulnerable, having lost my mother to a rapid decline from stage 4 cancer in mid November. She was a force of nature and a muse to...
by Sue Schlabach | Oct 8, 2018 | In the Studio
WHEN YOU PACK UP your tubes of paint, brushes, fold up easel, and all the rest, you find out quickly what you forgot as you set up to paint outside on a summer day. When it’s hot and sunny I often forget my hat. Sunscreen sometimes too. (Luckily I paint with a...
by Sue Schlabach | Sep 10, 2016 | Autumn, Design, homepage, In the Studio, Paintings, Summer
Here’s a little weekend watercolor applied over an ink drawing I did a while ago. It’s part of this collection if you’d like to see more. Wishing you a happy weekend and some creativity or exploring on your horizon. I am painting and sewing this...
by Sue Schlabach | Feb 14, 2014 | Artisanal Living, Artists, Creativity, Design, Paintings
In the continued quest to think about how to creatively cover my thrashed, but cozy, feather-filled couch, I came across the artist Heather Chontos’ canvas painted throw. That’s inspired. Heather writes and occupies a sublime spot in Portland, Maine. I...
