journal

Category: Studio diaries

Oil paint on panel
Behind the scenes
Sabra Awlad Issa

January, a clean palette

After working on last year’s exhibition, my head was exploding with ideas, visuals that I needed to get out and on paper. Things that had

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Behind the scenes
Sabra Awlad Issa

A 2023 recap

I always wanted to do these end-of-the-year-recaps, including goals for the new year and what not. But winter often isn’t my best season. This year

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Resources
Sabra Awlad Issa

Creative experiments #2

My friend Anna and I made some plans for creative fun and unfortunately that meant having to place another order with my art supplier. The

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Resources
Sabra Awlad Issa

Creative experiments #1

A few weeks (or was it months?…yikes…) ago I bought a gel plate and some other stuff to experiment with. After an initial surge of

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Behind the scenes
Sabra Awlad Issa

Studio hours

Recently, I’ve been in search of a way to create content without running into the limitations of my perfectionism. This is an ongoing thing, so

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Studio diaries
Sabra Awlad Issa

Direction

It was a nice ride last week; ideas were abundant and all worked out in sketches. Pencil and charcoal give me peace of mind, as

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Studio diaries
Sabra Awlad Issa

Encounter

This summer was 100% about my course, my students and my art school plans. A year worth of planning, writing, recording and creating had to

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Studio diaries
Sabra Awlad Issa

A little update

I owe you a bit of an update don’t I? Over the past few months I’ve been dealing with one of those monster depressive episodes.

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