Take a Break as an Artist for your Mental & Physical Health | Hedgehog & Hare Sculpture
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- Опубліковано 23 лют 2023
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A c r y l i c s
The non sticky paint on polymer clay: (check pigments! especially on Turner or Holbein) I basically use PB29 from Turner (it's the best!) along other blues, ochre and white, their PR122 (magenta) and have cadmium red and yellow from golden soflat.
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Loved this little sculpture-fascinating!
Just found your channel,I love these .You’re so talented,it’s interesting to see how they are done .lv Ann uk ❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Stunning sculpture. Thank you for sharing.
♥ 🦔 🐇 🦔 🌺🍃🌿🌻 Merci Stéphanie et bravo. Prends soin de toi. Bises de France 😉
Merci beaucoup! 😊🌈
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What a lot of work went into the hedgehog and the hare ……lovely x
thank you!
Thanks again. Great advice regarding rest. 🦔
This is a fantastic video. I definitely tend to be very stressed when creating. I am working on re-embracing the idea of creating art being "play". Perfectionism is really not fun. Also... in English, we refer to the hand we use for writing, etc, being our "dominant" hand. Those who use both for writing and such are ambidextrous.
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that makes me very happy to read! thank you!
🦔🦔🦔🦔 Awesome and get well soon. Resting is something I don't often do either and pain follows.
yeah, resting is weirdly difficult as an artist. But it's so important!
Interesting - here in the US we usually hear of the Rabbit and the Tortoise with the same idea. Love watching your work! Thank you for sharing! Love this one a lot!!!
I was just coming here to say this! It’s always the tortoise and the hare. Perhaps they changed it to be more regional since we don’t really have many wild hedgehogs in the states? Idk that’s just a thought.
I knew it in France as the hare and the tortoise as well, they are variations on that story throughout Europe :)
The one with the tortoise is different. The tortoise was consistent and strong and kept working, where the hare slept.
In this one, the hedgehog is scheming and the hare is fooled, until death.
Big difference.
🦔 I'm sorry you're suffering such upheaval and stress, right now - it's hard to focus on yourself sometimes. I have to deliberately schedule myself "RELAX" time in my schedule or I'll work right through. It definitely feels like the world pushes the idea that no matter what you do, it's never enough. Which is straight up wrong! So thank you for the reminder, and don't forget to take care of yourself, too. 🍄🐚
You're correct with that, I don't work in the evenings and on the week-ends anymore. And have cancelled a lot of group shows in the meantime to get back on track!
Wow you’re channel is a find
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Wow!! So beautiful 😍!! ❤❤😊 such detail and great colors and imagination!!
glad you liked it!
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Its nice to find someone else who struggles to put herself first. Doing Councilling right now that's been realised as my biggest problem. I do everything for my closest family and neglect myself but I don't know how to change that. My Councillor gave me a task to do before my session that's all about and so far I'm failing badly. Xx
You have to think of yourself sometimes, you can’t help others if you’re not in a great place yourself.
If you are happy and in good health, you’re going to be able to give back much more. It’s a fine balance.
I’m not too bad about it, apart for the work, where I tend to focus all my energy on what has to be done and not what I want to do.
So I don’t have the best advice, but yes, you are important as a person and need to be kind to yourself. I hope you can turn things around. Try to listen to your councillor. Just get out and have a piece of cake, with tea and book and try to enjoy it :)
Love the contrasts in this piece: the realistic form and colours of the hedgehog's face, body and legs contrasts with the full Kilgastian treatment of the spines. Beautiful! 🦔
thank you so much! and sorry for the late reply. (been working on my coloring book and other things and little time is left for youtube)
Your comment actually opened a little door in my head. The "kilgastian treatment".
🦔❤ My niece and I love hedgehogs and books. She was like this is SO cute🥰 would like for my library. I was like, this is art for everyone to see and enjoy. 4 year old thought, “Oh, okay, that works too.”
Aaaw sweet! Yes art is a visual pleasure, we don't need to own every piece of artwork we see. Glad she loved the piece :)
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🦔Thank you Stephanie for all the wonderful videos you make and for sharing your life and journey! ✨ I really appreciate you sharing the issues with your arm, because I too suffer from too much sculpting for too many years. Mine takes the form of numb fingers and electric shocks radiating down my arm--not fun! It is so important for younger artists to know the hazards of bad posture while making art, and I wish someone had told me decades ago to be mindful of this. We only get one body! Wishing you tons of success, good health and happiness! 💚
P.S. LOVE your interpretation of the Hare and Hedgehog story...your work is delightful 🙂
I'm sorry you have to deal with those pains on your arm!
Yes, being mindful of your own body is really important. It's honestly the main reason I do yoga and walk a lot, and am mindful of my diet, to avoid pain later in life. Clearly, I still need to make a few adjustments...
I'm not that young anymore, 37, not old either, but yeah, would not say I"m a young artist. In any case, I'm not in constant pain and I'm seeing two health practitioners right now. I don't want this to get worse.
Thank you so much, and I hope you're doing ok with your arm!
🦔 - I love this video!
🦔 Best wishes that you get well soon!
thank you and sorry for the late reply, the work on the coloring book has taken over my life XD
It sounds like you had “tennis elbow”. I completely understand what you’re going through as I have a similar issue every so often. I’ve been following your work since 2009 on deviant art 😂 and I love seeing your process and how it has changed yet still held in its original integrity and dedication. You’re a great inspiration and thank you for sharing your experience ♥️
it's actually not! "tennis elbow" is a tendinitis, and I don't have that. It's "cervico brachial neuralgia" that I have, quite annoying.
And wow, you really followed my work since the very beginning :)
@@stephanie.kilgast oooh I understand now. My brain went nerve=tendon and that’s so not the case oops 😬
Yes, from the beginning! Your polymer clay mini food was hugely inspiring! I was in a traditional ceramics class at the time, and I’m most familiar with earthenware clay, so it kinda blew open the possibilities of what can be done with polymer clay. I haven’t played in a while with it but I may bring it back to my supply inventory and incorporate it in my paintings
@@sunandstorm mixed media is really the approach of the contemporary world, I don't think we've ever had so many possibilities in terms of creation.
Yeah, it's easy to make the error between tendon and nerve! I just hope it will be better soonish :')
THAT was beautiful
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Your work is beautiful!
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🦔Love the hedgehog and hare! Beautiful work as always and I wish you a speedy recovery. Happy creating!
I’m sorry for the loss of your cat. I hope you are recovering well and doing things that are good for your well being. Loved your hedgehog, totally charming. 🦔xxx
thank you! finally manage to sculpt my cat (it's also my newest video)
Oh the pain, I'm going through that at the moment. It got so bad that I went to hospital. Turns out it's tennis elbow. Was told to buy an elbow support which hopefully arrives today. Fortunately I'm mainly left handed, but I miss sculpting and sewing, so frustrating, have lots I want to do. Still cant cook though, cant stand for long, so I'm surviving on lettuce and cereal, the bf can't cook. I like the way you mounted the hedgehog onto the book, great tip. Will have to try that. Amazing sculpture, must have took an age to add all that detail so inspiring. I took part in a collaboration to make a piece inspired by fairy tales, I chose to sculpt the troll from 3 billy goats gruff. He was the good guy in my story. Thank you for the fabulous video. Take care🦔🦔🦔
I hope you're doing a bit better now!
It took me a good month to recover and a lot of yoga, had to cancel most group shows I was in and rethink my working schedule.
Anyway, I hope you're recovery is quick!
And thank you so much :)
I love hedgehogs 🦔 and I can totally relating with the need of more rest. All the best with your arm/back/nerves!
thank you! finally back on on track, but it did take a while for me to get better!
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Love your video and your sculpture! 🦔
My son collects hedgehogs! I can't wait to show him this video! Thank you for sharing!!!!!!!!!!! 🦔
I hope he enjoyed the video! 😊🦔
Beautiful work. Thank you for sharing.🦔
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🦔 absolutely love watching your videos! Wishing you all the best and the speediest recovery!
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vielen lieben Dank :)
Reminds me of our hedgehog patient.
We found one in our garden, breathing heavily, one and a half years ago. Turned out she had lung worms (parasites) most likely due to eating snails. The vet gave her medication against the worms.
She lived another 6 months in our care. Turned out to be real picky with food once she got a taste of cooked chicken and scrambled eggs. She didn't like cat food at all after that.
We found another one that was too young/small to survive the winter. So we fed her as well. After she gained enough weight she was able to hibernate in our garage. We set her free last spring 🦔.
We then placed 2 wooden boxes (cat proof) with food in the garden and had up to 4 hedgehogs visiting regularly last year. (Captured on a wildlife camera.)
This way they hopefully are less exposed to parasites. As a result the number of snails in the garden has gone up 😅
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How sweet of you to take care of the hedgehogs! I don't recall ever seeing a live hedgehog, I grew up in a city :/
Snails can be a bit of a pain, especially if you have a veggie garden. Egg shells and ash (from a chimney) can protect plants from the snails and slugs.
Sweet story in any case :)
🦔I love watching your amazing and unique creations!💖
thank you so much!
(sorry for the late reply, been having a lot of work and I'm trying to not work on the weekends :))
🦔❤️It turned out so cute and absolutely beautiful. I always love your videos and sculptures 🥰❤️🌹🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔
thank you so much! glad you liked it! 🦔😊
Boy did I need to hear what you shared. I love the way your figurine turned out. It's downright adorable. 🥰
"resting is ok" is a good reminder to most of us! and thank you :)
🦔 I loved this, it was such a pleasure to watch.
I hope your arm heals up fast.🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔
it's much better now, thank you!
Beautiful sculpture 🐇(no hedgehog or hare emoji on my phone 🤣🤣🤣
a bunny is perfect! I don't think they have a hare emoji, so many emoji lacking in the natural world. I still am waiting for a good jellyfish and lichen one XD
Amei ❤
I started having similar pain this time last spring. I have started doing kineto therapy exercises at home for my spine which helps quite a lot. But I have also started to work less at the drawing table and do more around the house like cooking and cleaning . So movement is key
yes, I think moving is really important. I can switch between different mediums and some ask for more movement.
It's such a pain to deal with though :')
🦔 I'm so sorry to hear you have been in pain. I have lived with pain daily since I had the Corona Virus in May of 2020 and 1.5 months later was diagnosed with Lupus. I pray you rest as you should and get better soon.🦔
🦔The Hedgehog and the Hare is an exquisite design. The colors are fabulous! Thank you for sharing your amazingly inspiring talent!🦔
That sounds a lot worse than what I have, I hope you're going to be ok and learn to deal with the daily pain. I wish I knew anything about helping you out with this. Best of luck!
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Allen Williams I justdraw you will see what he uses to draw straight away on the images of his videos hope it helps you for your drawing and painting and maybe even your sculptures I’m in the process of looking for a electric desk so I can sit down than stand when my back/sciatica starts hurting
yes, that's something like that I want to do. I'm thinking of getting adjustable trestles so I can use one of my table boards and adjust the angle and height.
I'm going to a flea market today (you never know) and if I don't find anything there, I'll just order new trestles.
Also, thank you! I didn't know him and his work is amazing!
Ikea have those desks, I have one that is manual (it was much cheaper)
It's good when sculpting too as. you can adjust it to eye level.
Good luck with your back!
He uses a modified mahl stick to rest his arm on to help his posture, the trestles seem like a good idea as the electric desks are expensive and prone to breaking. You are very inspiring and a great artist by the way 😃
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What a fabulous piece you've created ...the colour range and content work so well . If I may ask - which glue are you using ? 🙂🙂🙂
acid free white glue :)
@@stephanie.kilgast Thank you 😊
We would say "right handed " or "my right arm is my dominant arm" . I have had RSI (repetitive strain ) before in my elbow and wrist . I took 3weeks off . Never had an issue again (it was 6 years ago ) .
The break is the biggest help , more than physio you just need to stop . Trigger point massage helped too .
I have to agree, not working for a month helped.
However yoga helped even more in my case and still does. I think what is important is to talk to a physio to figure out exactly what one has, in order to make the right moves toward healing :)
je ne connaissais pas ce conte
ton hérisson est juste waouhhhh et cette idée du petit lièvre sur sa tête forêt juste géniale
pas :( pour ton bras
j'espère que ça va vite aller mieux prends soin de toi
quant à regarder la vidéo jusqu"'au bout c'est carrément 2 fois minimum pour moi !!
une où je lis les traductions et une où je regarde ton travail
donc
oui ça fait beaucoup de temps à ordi (trop!!) à la prochaine en tout cas bravo
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ohlala j'étais vraiment en retard sur mes réponses aux commentaires!
Merci beaucoup et mon bras va mieux, grâce à un mois de repos et du yoga :)
@@stephanie.kilgast pas de soucis Stéphanie le principal c'est si tu vas mieux
@@stephanie.kilgast pas de soucis Stéphanie
le principal est que tu ailles mieux
FWIW - strong arm = dominant arm/hand (in English) - well one word we use
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What reasons did you stop using polymer clay? Was it mostly to do with it being plastic based, or are there other environmental factors that you know of which make other clays better environmentally? 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔
Yes. Art and environmental questions is a conundrum. I really love sculpting mixed media, but all clays have some plastic binder (usually at the very least glue). Polymer clay has to be cured, so that’s extra energy to use (and waste).
But then you also have the whole acrylics paints issue (plastic in liquid form) and varnishes, gesso and so on.
I arrived at a point in my thinking process where I was thinking of just stopping everything, but I had to choose myself in that regard.
I have a bit of another point of view now, I took a few steps back and I consider that the amount of impact I create is a lot less than other things.
Take a look around your room, everything is coated in plastic, most of these things will end up in the landfill and you will likely repaint your walls a few times in your life (with plastic I might add)
So if I create small sculptures that are made partly of plastic, compared to what is happening in the world, and especially since I talk about these issues in my work, it’s not as bad. Or at least that’s how I deal with my conscience.
I still try to implement more paper+watercolor in my sculptures and I picked up oil painting, so I certainly am trying to reduce my impact, but I’d rather focus on other aspects of my life to reduce my eco footprint. (a vegetarian diet, no kids)
I found it more sustainable and healthy for me to not feel guilty about every single thing I did that I loved doing in essence.
The key for me is to find the balance of reducing my impact while still enjoying my life.
That’s also what I tell people, eat less meat, buy less stuff, just do everything a little less.
We’re humans and we live in societies that have a huge impact, so as much as it’s great to try and lessen it, it would be foolish to think we can be « perfect ».
🦔 I think that is a hedgehog... My eyesight isn't really good. I love your videos!
it is! :D thank you!
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🦔🐇 ah les contes de Grimm ! Un jour j’aimerais bien travailler sur les musiciens de la ville de Brème, un de mes préférés et avec plein d’animaux 😉 j’aime beaucoup la composition de cette sculpture en rapport avec son titre, et le lièvre et le museau du hérisson sont juste parfaits 😍 Question pâte polymère, j’utilise la Premo de chez Sculpey et qui supporte très bien l’acrylique (c’est celle qu’utilise Virginie Ropars), et pour peindre dessus j’utilise la peinture pour Warhammer de chez Citadelle qui est très pigmentée, puis le vernis mat Mister Super Clear pour protéger. Je ne sais pas si tu as déjà essayé ces gammes, il y a tellement de choses il faut dire ! Heureuse de savoir que tu as pu trouver une solution pour tes douleurs, et je te souhaite d’avoir le temps de faire les créations qui te font envie ! Très bon week-end et encore bravo pour cette pièce
C'est clair qu'il y a beaucoup de marques! En ce moment j'aime bien la cos clay (pâte polymère) et j'utilise la gouache acrylique de turner et la soflat de golden. Je ne compte pas changer de si tôt, j'aime bien les acryliques "pour artistes" parce que je préfère choisir d'après les pigments utilisés, ce qui est impossible avec les gammes de peintures pour modélisme.
Et merci :)
@@stephanie.kilgast Merci beaucoup pour ta réponse ! Ah la cosclay me fait très envie, je pense essayer dans pas longtemps. La marque Golden m’attire beaucoup également, je sais qu’elle est vraiment super notamment pour ce genre de pièces. Je ne savais pas pour le manque d’infos avec les peintures pour modélisme, je ne m’étais pas posée la question mais je comprends parfaitement que tu y sois attentive. Je viens de voir que tu as une nouvelle vidéo qui a un si joli thème, je vais la déguster demain matin pour bien démarrer la journée 😊
@@marinagelineau8341 la cosclay est pas mal et elle prend bien la couleur. La golden est bien, mais honnêtement je préfère la turner, c'est juste plus pratique les tubes. Ils vont bientôt sortir les 2 pigments qui me manque dans leur gamme (et la raison pour laquelle je me suis tournée vers la soflat)
Enfin... il y a tellement de matériaux aujourd'hui, on pourrait passer des mois à tout tester pour de pas trouver de préférence XD
I thought the hare was a shrimp in the beginning. 😂
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Hi Stephanie. It's exactly the right time to work through this issue. You must begin tweaking things on this new learning curve. I am in similar situations with my resilience and stamina , sooooo !!! This is holding a mirror right up front of me lol. Doing these things for ourselves has been the true path of least resistance. 🙏 Thank you and here's to us 21st century Woman . 🌟🪶🌒🐈⬛
best of luck figuring out a better work/life balance on your side then!
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🦔 You know, this story about the hedgehog and the hare makes me think of people who make their way up there by cheating.
yes and no, I see it as outsmarting the hand you were given. The hedgehog can't wind a race against the hare, it's physically impossible, so the only chance he has is to find a way around its own limits.
I think it's the same in life. For instance, some people have bad memory, so they need to write things down more and create files to remember key things to work around their shortcomings. It's not considered cheating, it's using your brain to even up your own limits.
I used to want to become an artist....but nowadays it's just so much bullsheet - make vids, make shorts, reels, make a website, market yourself, edit vids, make courses, do this, do that, so much that it's not even about being an artist anymore, more like a marketing influencer. I love your channel because you offer a very sober view on everything. I know you do courses and get your income from galleries which is not so easy to get to, but you still sell it in a sober manner, not like "HAHA I'M AN ARTIST EVERYTHING IS SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS AND MONEY FALLS FROM THE SKY" :D ... also many online artists nowadays don't even do actual art, how many channels I have seen go from "speedpainting XY" to "10 tips with paintbrushes" or "monthly art subscription box unboxing", or churning out videos so frequently that it affects the quality of their art.... honestly I could NEVER be an artist, it burned me out so much I could not touch a paintbrush for over 3 years and every time I did, I started anxiety breathing and realized I did not enjoy art AT ALL. I am only now getting back to it, as a hobby of course. Nevertheless, gorgeous work as usual Stephanie. You are one of my favorite artists both because of your work, philosophies, and your channel overall. 🦔
In all honesty, « being an artist » always came with challenges. In previous centuries artists who were able to make a living from their craft would do so mostly from commissions, or/and from patrons. Nowadays at least you can follow a more personal introspective path, so that’s a clear bonus.
As for the rest, indeed you need to be a bit of a Swiss knife, you have to know how to run a business, make sense of the internet, social media and algorithm, while still honing your skills and finding your niche.
You’re your own boss, so no paid holidays, no money ever comes in if you stop working (passive income is a lie) but you can also define your own schedule and are relatively free.
I would not trade it with anything else, but yeah, it’s not an easy job. (Easier than most though)
That being said you don’t have to be a « professional » artist to be an artist, as in, you don’t have to actively try and sell/showcase your work to do interesting work. You can also treat it as something you do on the weekends and in the evenings. It will take more time to develop ideas, but you’ll also be free of financial questions.
Many artists (today and in the past) have/had a money job to sustain their art career, there’s nothing wrong with that. I think it can be a real advantage, because you can do art for the sole purpose of creation.
All that to say, please get back to your art, even if it’s just once a week, creation is such an important part of being a human :)
And thank you for your comment, it made me really happy :)
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Cold porcelain??? I'm not familiar with this clay.
yeah, basically a lot of white glue and some filler. It dries translucent and usually flexible. It's incredibly strong, however it shrinks when drying and it also dries fairly quickly.
Ah ces douleurs peuvent être vraiment handicapantes, c’est sur… prends soin de toi ❤
un peu tard, mais merci!
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