Organizing & Time Archives - Peony and Parakeet

How I Organize My Colored Pencil Drawings

Päivi — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:32:28 +0000

This week, I’m sharing my storage system for colored pencil drawings, and you get to see many art ideas as well. How I Organize My Colored Pencil Drawings – Watch the Video! In this video, you’ll get a look at my work from over the years and see how I keep everything organized, safe, and […]

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Half-Empty Art Journals I Should Fill Up

Päivi — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:04:43 +0000

Last month, I went through my art supplies and wrote a post about the supplies I shouldn’t use anymore. After the post, I gave most of those useless-to-me supplies away. Now I have reviewed my art journals and have come to the conclusion that I have too many half-empty ones. I should fill these up […]

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Art On the Wall – Displaying Canvas Paintings

Päivi — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:50:35 +0000

Our home is full of art. Almost all my canvas paintings are displayed on the walls. The arrangements change when old ones are sold and new ones are born. In this blog post, I show some of the paintings and how they are displayed at the moment. When using stretched canvases, framing is not necessary. […]

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Weekly Art – Creating Regularly in Any Mood

Päivi — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:56:28 +0000

This week, I talk about making weekly art and the feelings behind creating regularly. I feel that although artists talk a lot about techniques and creative process, something gets left out. It’s a time perspective. I don’t mean how much time it takes to make one piece, but what it’s like to make art week […]

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Pleasures of Watercolor Painting

Päivi — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:16:42 +0000

This week is about watercolor painting and the pleasures that can be found there! Getting Inspiration Now I’ve been busy with a lot of different things – a new big art project, the new course Freely Grown, commissioned work, etc. Despite that, I stole some time and went to look at old paintings online – […]

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Everyday Life as an Artist

Päivi — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:59:42 +0000

This post is about my current everyday life. I was going to tell you that my life has been very ordinary lately: I wake up in the morning, take the dogs for a walk and start painting. In the evening, I practice my ideas with the ProCreate app or knit and let my subconscious work […]

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Art and Sacrifice – Must an Artist Drop Other Interests?

Päivi — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:57:12 +0000

This week, I respond to a question about creative focus: when we want to move forward, should we focus on doing one thing and abandon other creative activities, like crafting? I got the idea for this blog post from an interesting discussion that is running in my community Bloom and Fly. The discussion started when […]

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Little Assistants – How Pets Help with Art Making

Päivi — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:49:59 +0000

I work at home with two dogs and four birds. My husband leaves early in the morning and then there are only us, the gang of seven. One of my little assistants is a beagle called Stella, a very cute little angel to every human but I think she would describe herself as a hungry […]

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Minimalism in Creating – Making the Most of What You Have

Päivi — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:14:52 +0000

Here’s my latest little study in watercolor, called “Ikebana.” I finished it today, but for a long time, it was just a piece of watercolor paper with random doodles and colored spots. I had started the piece in December 2016 when running a local art class. I had just painted mindlessly while discussing with the […]

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Limited Creative Time – A Personal Story

Päivi — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:46:13 +0000

Here’s my latest watercolor painting “The Sense of Time”, made just a couple of days ago. I limited my creative time immensely when painting this. But this time I want to share the whole story, not just images of how I made the painting. At the same time, you will see some of my summer crafting projects and […]

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Organizing Art Supplies with Konmari Method

Päivi — Tue, 19 May 2015 14:28:27 +0000

This art journal page is about how less stuff can uplift us. I feel like a bird with balloons after I sorted out my art and papercrafting supplies. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up It all started from a book: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. It is written […]

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More Time, Better Art?

Päivi — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:14:37 +0000

This artwork was inspired by Rococo, the 18th-century-period style with curves, asymmetry, gold, and ornaments. When I think of Rococo, I think of time. How long did it take to sew those elaborate women’s dresses? What about the porcelain table clocks, how many people, how many months did it take to get one finished and working? […]

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