Thanks Ugo for your comment. I agree with you – Lisa has a huge warm heart! I’m so glad she shared her thoughts about this topic with us, and in such a clever, fun way!! Certainly gives hints of her personality!

I am a big fan of Lisa! Her work reflects passion, love and dedication. I am pleased she spent her time writing about her work. She is a true inspiration as a pastel artist. My best wishes for her success. Today if I am a better artist is also because of her. Once she took the time (on her busy schedule) to advice about some brand of pastel I was looking forward to buy. She has a big heart as a human being. I hope one day I will meet her personally in an art show or in one of her workshops.

Hi Heather! Thanks for the very nice comments. I write this at 11:30pm as I head to the studio. I do indeed have crazy hours! Working late makes things nice and quiet which is probably why I do it; there aren’t any interruptions, you know? I head to sleep around 5 and usually snooze as late as I can. On most days I don’t set appointments until around 1pm after a wee bit of coffee. Lunch time is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. And midnight snacks become dinner. Haha!

You know I’d love to have you join me in a workshop. Back to Corbeil next August! Maybe that gives you enough time to plan? It’s a beautiful area.

Thanks again…and thank you Gail for your sweet responses. I love your blog and videos!

Yes, her work is extraordinary, that’s for sure. And yes, seeing the steps that went into the Clydesdale and Lisa’s daughter would certainly be eye-opening I’m sure.

I too was wondering when Lisa slept so I’ll let her answer that question 🙂

Hope you have the chance to take a workshop with her Heather. The animal theme certainly fits with your own work!

I can certainly understand her practice of working through the night, no distractions. It must take incredible self discipline to maintain such a practice. When does she sleep?
Thank you for sharing!!

I would have loved to have taken one of Lisa’s workshops in Corbeil this summer, but, I just can’t make it happen this year. Hope she is back again next year.

I love it when I find out that two fun and awesome people I know actually know each other! Kim, thank you so very much. As you can imagine, it’s so rewarding to hear that something I might have said in a workshop has helped someone. How nice of you to take the time to post to me personally and to also take the time to comment on Gail’s awesome site. Thank you for making me feel special…just like YOU!

Totally agree with you Kim about Lisa equation! Thank you for adding your comments here as well as on Lisa’s FB page.
Yes, a pleasure indeed although all too fleeting. It’s always great to put a face, a personality to a name. And wow, lucky you taking all those workshops!!

Awww thanks Lisa 🙂

Dana (and Gail), thank you both for the generous compliments. Dana, you’re so funny when you talk about moving trees around and it doesn’t matter. It matters and YOU get to decide how to move them! The GREAT thing about that is that you have a lot of artistic freedom and I think more room to be creative. I do sometimes yearn for that. I suppose we often want to do what is unfamiliar. In the meantime, there are wonderful artists who do what you do, so keep up with the fun and beauty and thank you for appreciating a different approach.

Hi Marianne! Thank you for the kindness. I’m glad you liked the approach of the article. Gail is so right when she says that most of us find the business portion of art difficult. The great thing is that unlike when I started painting there are awesome blogs like How to Pastel that can save you lots of time and trouble with great tips and ideas. You can do it!