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Hi everyone,

Here's a quick update of how my painting studio is developing. As most of you know, Dom and I have been building this studio for the past 8 months or so. Progress has been delayed because of Covid. It's been difficult to get tradespeople to show up. The company who manufactured the studio were going to put it up for us. They delivered the materials and the steel and windows spent months laying on the ground here while we waited. In the end, Dom and I put it up ourselves. Now we are waiting for an electrician to install all the wiring before we can put the internal walls up. I know we need to have patience because our problems are insignificant when we compare them to the problems that other people are facing around the world today. Hugs to all!

Louise

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My Studio Update

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Yvonne Walton

Thanks Louise for showing us around. It’s going to be lovely to have your own studio to do your work. Love the colours and they way you designed it. They further paints look awesome can’t wait for them.

Elaine

It’s looking good Louise, very exciting, hope you can be in there soon. ✏️✍🏻🎨👩🏻‍🎨💕

Robyn Mills

Louise that is coming along nicely. I envy you all that space …. Not the rain , we’ve got enough of our own and being on the ocean front massive seas at present…. Hope all the delays aren’t pushed to much further back by the disastrous flooding up and down our East Coast…. But as you say, it’s nothing compared to what others are dealing with locally and globally at present. Robyn from Manly.

Novella Gouldsborough

So exciting to see the progress you’ve made on your studio! I like the colours you’ve chosen. The space will be bright and airy. My husband and I are in the process of preparing our house for sale and I hope I have a nice place to paint in the new home. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished studio. Best of luck to you!

paula blomfield

What a beautiful view. Thanks for showing us around. I guess you are up northern nsw or Queensland with all that rain. We had only one day of rain down here in Griffith NSW.

Louise De Masi

My pleasure and thanks Paula. We are in Coffs Harbour. It's good to see the sun again.

Louise De Masi

Thanks very much Novella. Good luck with the sale of the house. 💕

Louise De Masi

Thank you Robyn. Yes I agree, with all that is happening both here and overseas, I realise I have nothing to complain about at all. 💕

paula blomfield

Oh wow Louise I know the area well, I grew up in Grafton, where my family all still live. And my daughter lives at Korora.

Joyce Wicks

That is fantastic. I know that feeling of waiting. I waited over 25 years to get a built in dishwasher. I had to hand wash dishes the whole time we lives in Hawaii. You are going to love having your own space. That was a huge undertaking but so worth it when it’s done. Best wishes. Thanks for sharing Tony O’Connor’s music with us. I love it!

Louise De Masi

Small world! I hope your family were ok with the flooding in Grafton.

Louise De Masi

Thanks so much Joyce. 25 years washing dishes.....eeek! I'm glad you looked Tony up. His music helps me get in the creative zone. 💕

Lety Mujica

Wauu you have been working hard it is going to be beautiful and you will be enjoying to have your space for your painting. Congratulations

Laurel

What a lovely, calm place you’re building for yourself. I’m sure it will be worth the wait and will look forward to seeing you in and showing us around again. 👏🏻

Linda McKendrick

Holy Moly waiting until September for cabinets is crazy! Looking beautiful so exciting for you - enough space for onsite workshops perhaps....HaHa we hope!!

Betty Johnson

Nobody deserves it more than you.

Cynthia Keith

Your dream is coming true. Your studio will be amazing. I can visualize you sitting in it painting and creating with your gift of art… so happy for you.

Kathy Wilden

Hi Louise, your studio is looking great. Can’t wait to see you painting in there. It’s going to look awesome when finished…thank you for all the work you put in to help us grow in watercolour painting. You are very valuable to us..Thank you again 🥰💕

Pam Stewart

Looks great! What a huge difference it will make to have do much space. It’s lovely to have a sense of where you work. Can’t wait to the fighting fish—it’s beautiful!

Rebecca Bryan

Your property is gorgeous. What a view! Sorry things are taking so long, but it will be well worth it once it is all put together. Enjoyed the update and look forward to more of your wonderful tutorials. Prayers things move along quickly to finish up this wonderful project. 💖🙏🙏🙏💖

Dianne Carpenter

What a beautiful place! Thank you for your video…you certainly deserve all the best!

Sharon M

Wow! That is going to be amazing! I’m so happy for you, looking forward to seeing you paint and making videos to share with all of us! Thank you for the tour of where you live and work, it’s so beautiful there!!!💞

Penny Upson

Just love your house and land. The studio will be a great addition which looks like you will enjoy very much.

Genie

Thanks for sharing your dreams.

Laura Etheridge

What a lovely place you live at Louise, all that green around you is marvelous. You and your husband seem to be a wonderful team, it will be a dream of a painting studio when it’s finished, well worth the wait 👏👏 Congratulations!

Charles Callery

Congratulations! It looks like your studio will have lots of room and light. I can't thank you enough for all the care and artistry that you put into your tutorials. Best of luck for speedy completion!

Trish Dixon

How exciting for you Louise, I can almost feel the vibes in your commentary. I am getting a new kitchen also and your studio almost looks like my kitchen renovations at the moment. The work has been delayed because of the floods here in Jimboomba/Logan so I know how you are feeling waiting to get the studio up and running. I hope it is not too long. Maybe you can have a "Studio" warming! Trish from Jimboomba Brisbane Queensland

Patricia Douglas

Its coming along nicely! It will be wonderful to have the extra space to have all your materials and finished work, etc out and still be able to walk around! And a bathroom and kitchenette to fix meals and not have to run back and forth to the house (unless you want too). You have such beautiful property. Everything is so nice and green. Is it like that all year long? Thank you for sharing your dream studio!

Annie Anderson

What a great space, be fab when finished. Beautifully green and lush .

Marion Preston

We can all only wish for something like your studio Louise, lucky girl!

Joan Schmidt

Very nice. So happy for you!

Tonya Kortekaas

So excited for you to have your own studio building to keep creating your beautiful art in, you deserve it! Thanks for sharing the progress with us.

Jennifer Nicholson

How exciting for you it is going to be incredible! I bet you cannot wait. Thanks for sharing Louise.

Jo Olson

I am so excited for you Louise! Your studio looks wonderful. I hope the electrical is completed before too long so you can finish it up and move over there soon. Thanks so much for sharing these bits of your life with us.

Sherry Lane

How splendid for you to be building your dream studio especially with your very own contractor!!! You live in a magical space, the mountains and calming lush greenery.

Frances Ross

What a fabulous space for you. Soon. Your art is so beautiful, thank you for sharing your talent and progress with us.

Cathy VanLeit

So great to see dreams come true. Thank you for sharing your heart and dream with us! Sending blessings to you!

Jill Lewis

Fantastic space! So rewarding to see the fruits of your labour and what a joy it will be to paint and create there, once it's all complete!

Nettie Moss

Oooh - it all looks great Louise! I thought you were going to show us a bedroom too! but of course you need to get away and relax sometime ;-) I hope you won't have to wait too much longer now, you have incredible patience. So looking forward to your upcoming paintings for us - the sheep and that gorgeous chicken in particular! Thank you for all your hard work.

Lynn Wiley

What a wonderful space for your art, Louise! I love the sweeping landscape

Lise Bowles

Louise, your studio is phenomenal and your backyard is breathtaking! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

Bonnie Smith

So serene and quiet. It will be done before you know it! Enjoy!

Amy Kenyon

Thank you so much for sharing! It will be a beautiful serene space to create. Excited for the upcoming tutorials! Thank you Louise!

Janice

Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing and I’m happy for you. Enjoy!!!

Nancy Guenther

Your studio is going to be wonderful and the view from it is absolutely glorious. What a slice of heaven you have with your house and land! 💛

Janice Herman

Your vision is coming to reality. The colors and textures of the interior really made it come alive for me. To be sure to make the patio big enough for outdoor painting. It’s the best light ever! So happy for you.

Hotflash Vickie

Wow!! LOVE your studio, and even though I would be perfectly happy to work in your old one, mostly because it's 100 percent better than where I watercolor (my gator board is in my lap mostly, with horrible lighting) LOL, I can understand how much you are looking forward to your absolutely beautiful studio! I know September seems so far away, but it will be here before you know it, what with working on video editing and world events and so forth making time fly. And can't wait for that chicken lesson, as we have hens that look very similar, and I'll have to give that one a go for sure for my husband; they're "his" girls, even though it seems I'M the one tending to them more than him, and I'm not a fan of backyard farming and being chased and pecked at. I'd rather paint the things, so I am looking forward to that; I've got their expressions down, I think! Is Dom adding a BED in your studio? Because it's so pretty, I'm not sure you'll want to leave it!

Miriam Wood

It is looking great so far.

Margaret B Smith

Thank you for sharing this with us. My daughter and I want a studio too, as we are working in a very cramped untidy environment, so I can appreciate your need for a very designated well lit space. Time flies - so we look forward to seeing a news video of the "grand entry, and new beginning" by the end of the year. Wish you all the best.

Linda Barnett

You have gorgeous property. Love your plan for completion of your studio. I look forward to your tutorials.

Jeanie Miller

Look at all those wonderful windows! This will be amazing when it’s done. ✌️💕🇺🇸

Judy Breedlove

I am so happy for you. This studio is an artists dream. It won't be long before it's done. You've waited this long....a few more months will be a piece of cake. I love the palette you've chosen for the interior.....very calm and serene. Thank you for sharing your progress.

Shelly Solle

This is absolutely wonderful Louise. There is nothing more exciting than creating your own space to be creative in. We ended up building an entire new home because of an art space. LOL. Congratulations!!

Louise De Masi

Thanks so much Laurel. I look forward to showing everyone.

Louise De Masi

Thanks Linda.....Lol- you never know! The kitchen place quoted us in December last year and they told us we'd be waiting until September. If we didn't pay our deposit in January they said we would have to wait until 2023. Unbelievable.

Louise De Masi

Thanks so much Betty. That's very kind of you. 💕

Delores Lopez

It is a beauty! You work hard and certainly deserve such a great studio! ( I have back problems and was thinking that you may need a nice cushy floor. Our tile floor on concrete is a problem sometimes for me. I get memory foam mats for areas of high use.) Thanks for sharing your space with us!

Dionne Conrad

Thanks for sharing with us. It’s beautiful! I know you can’t wait to get in there. It’ll make work much easier for sure.

Kay Endsley Art

The studio looks wonderful! I am so happy for you to have this dream come true. Can’t wait for the upcoming projects also. They look fun.

Linda

So much for us and yourself to look forward to. Can’t wait to see you in your fabulous studio, Louise. There is nothing like a space of your own. 🇦🇺👍🏻🌺

Helen Riga

Even though it's not the best situation to have to install it yourselves, when it's done, you'll be able to stand back proudly and say "We did this!". Thanks for the tour. Your property looks like a piece of paradise. Lucky you.

Lydia Frazier Bosley

So delightful to see your dream studio taking shape! Thanks for sharing the excitement with us, The upcoming tutorials look great, fun to add a sheep and a hen to the ever-growing menagerie of LDM critters! Thanks also for this month's high res. file of the rooster, I have a friend whose kitchen theme is red with chickens, I plan to give her a print of this - thanks, Louise! 💜💛💚

Karin Overholt

I am so excited for you and your new studio! You have such a beautiful property. Thank you for sharing!

June Lawniczak

That is going to be one amazing studio! I can only imagine your excitement!

Becky

Louise, this is a beautiful, well-thought-out studio. If you are like me, whenever we build a new space, I imagine every night walking through the doors, working in each space, and embracing every inch of wonder it provides. Your choices of colors are not only lovely, soothing, and bright, they also allow you to film cleanly. You were smart to choose plank flooring for many reasons, and the color you selected is magnificent! There will always be things you would change. Please be certain to denote them in a "construction diary". You may never build another space like this but it could be helpful to others. My family members who record videos have discovered how helpful it is to have a track overhead with outlets to connect and hang lighting, recording devices, and other items. You might have thought of this already or decided to settle for a completely open space. Most importantly, you will be able to leave your work environment and transition into home mode.

ANNICK HARRINGTON

Wow Louise, the studio is coming along nicely! I'm on my sofa with covid but seeing this video has cheered me up. Your gardens are so beautiful loads of inspiration for painting. I was looking forward to painting the frangipanis but like you say patience is a wonderful thing. Thank you some much for the wonderful work you share with us, long may it continue!

Rebecca Bryan

Woo hoo! I can't wait to see the day that you get into your dream space!!! You deserve it! 💖

Renee Howard Cassese

How exciting. It's coming along but I'm sure it feels like forever to you. It's going to be beautiful!

Janice Moss

What a lovely piece of land you have and your studio is coming along nicely. I’m really happy for you Louise. I, like maybe most here, have no idea all that goes into the production of your videos. I don’t make videos but my painting “stuff” is in 3 rooms of our small home. I do have a craft room, that was organized and spotless until Dec. when I was crazy busy making gifts, but find I can’t paint in there. I paint where the lighting is inviting and I think my husband likes it that we are in the same room. I look forward to seeing your finished studio.❤️

Audrey Reed

You have a stunning view!

Alexandra May

A long wait Louise but how lovely and so well deserved. My hubs and I are amazed at you and Dom essentially building this yourselves because the work crew were so delayed. Love the palette you've chosen too. Hope you get to enjoy it for many years to come and it helps you to separate work and home life xxx

D. Todd

I just finished my studio that was on my mind for about 30 years. It was one of the best presents I ever gave myself. I know you will enjoy yours as much as I love mine. Your thought that the distance from the house will help with the transition between art and family is spot on. Enjoy.

Louise De Masi

Thanks so much. That's wonderful. You have been waiting longer than me! I hope you enjoy yours too.

5 Flavors

Wow, dream big. You and Don made it happen. Am so impressed, and a little jealous of your drive. Best of luck.

Siny

Louise, I've been following you on YouTube and Skillshare for a while and thought it was time to become a patron. I admire your work and your attitude to life! It is so nice to see where all those beautiful watercolors are made. Dom and you are making it a great place and I hope there will be a video as well when the studio is done! Happy building, creating, filming and relaxing for years to come! Warm greetings from the Netherlands x

Louise De Masi

Thank you very much Siny. Yes there sure will. I'm estimating we are about 6 weeks or so from completion.

Becky

I was hoping to get an update on the new studio..... how is it going since this May update? I remember you saying you had to wait for items to complete the work. Hugs from Florida!

Louise De Masi

Thanks Becky- great minds think alike. I've posted an update today. 💕