video and in this week's video i'm setting up my  husband's bullet journal for july with a theme  

completely inspired by and in honor of self-taught  illustrator lim hengswe who is a malaysian artist  

who has created a series of abstract works  of art incorporating cats into landscapes and  

i just love their art i find it so whimsical and  adorable and wholesome obviously i am a cat lady  

this has been established and so is my husband we  have two cats i knew he would love this art i knew  

he would find it just as adorable as i did so i  decided to recreate some of my favorite pieces  

from this series for my husband's bullet journal  using a variety of acrylic graphs from archer and  

olive to get that really flat matte finish since  the original artwork was digital i'll link all  

of lim heng sui's social media where you can find  more of their work in the description box you can  

go check them out their work is the kind that puts  a smile on your face when you really need it so  

just feels like something we should be celebrating  right now starting with the cover page i decided  

to recreate two pieces of art one on each side so  i used some washi tape to mark out squares on each  

page and began by filling in the background  with a soft peach color i've done my best to  

link the specific acrylographs that i used in the  description box down below but some of them have  

come from limited edition releases or subscription  boxes and some came in sets that are not  

currently being sold so i've done my best to link  the ones that are still available on the website

i didn't match the color scheme of these  pieces exactly but the colors i chose  

in general were sort of inspired by the types  of colors that lim heng sui uses in their art

this soft sage green i'm using right now is one  of the colors from amanda h lee's collaboration  

with archer and olive she created a whole set  of acrylic graphs and they're such interesting  

unique colors that i was really drawn to so i  wanted to make sure to use a couple in this video

for the piece on the left we have two mountains  and there are white cats who are the snowy cats  

on the top of the mountains as well as white  cats representing clouds and then the piece  

on the right side is one large mountain in  the center with some soft rolling hills in  

the foreground all of which are cats including  the snowy cap on top and the clouds of course  

i was tempted to turn the sun into a cat as  well but i held myself back from the temptation  

chewie of course was keeping me  company as i was creating this theme  

he could tell there was something cat  related going on and he wanted to be involved  

once these were dry i removed  the washi tape for that nice  

crisp finish and used a sakura micron to add  some really simple facial features to the cats

i am having such a ridiculously busy start  to my summer this year i have to admit i  

am very overwhelmed right  now and very much struggling  

on the edge of burnout there's just a lot going on  i'm exhausted all of the time and just trying to  

get through the day-to-day trying to still be  creative is really hard in this state as i'm  

sure a lot of you can relate to so i apologize  if i've been a little quieter on my various  

social media i'm trying to practice what i preach  and practice self-care and take care of myself  

through all of this which is definitely difficult  but it's what i would tell any of my friends to  

do it's what i would tell any of you to do if  you were going through a tough time if you were  

overwhelmed if you were struggling with burnout  so i'm trying to do that for myself as well  

i'm starting with a really simple calendar in  the center and i'm going to recreate a piece  

in the background now this one i had a really  clear concept for the color scheme here that was  

supposed to contrast the color scheme from the  cover page using the same peach as i used for  

the backgrounds on the cover page but the color i  chose for the second cat which was meant to be a  

very warm reddish tone ended up looking a little  too burgundy for my taste and i ended up cycling  

through a bunch of different options before  deciding on a dark brown and i'm still not 100  

set on this dark brown but i filled in the whole  cat and i didn't want to change my mind yet again  

so i just stuck with it and i wanted to show that  i changed my mind about the color in the video  

and just touch on it here because i feel like  sometimes the nature of creating plan with me  

videos out of the process of making these setups  means that i'm making a lot of little decisions  

about what to leave in and what to take out and  i end up erring on the side of taking things out  

usually rather than leaving them in and i worry  sometimes that that gives the impression that i  

always know 100 what i'm doing ahead of time that  i never make mistakes that i'm 100 confident with  

the colors i choose or the techniques i try and  that is so far from the truth because every time  

i do a setup i'm just experimenting i'm trying  something new i'm just going for it and seeing  

what happens and adapting as i go along so just  a reminder that it's okay if you end up disliking  

the color scheme you chose and you want to change  it or you try a technique for something and it  

doesn't work at all and you want to start over  and try something else it happens to all of us  

and it's totally natural and a very common thing i  think for a lot of us who are creative or artistic  

these two cats on the calendar page are  cuddling under the light of a full moon

flipping to the final spread the first  page of my husband's notes pages where he  

does his daily logs and regular to-do lists  and here i'm recreating one final piece of art  

which is a cat as a sand dune in the desert  one side shadowed because it's opposite of  

the sun and that shadow is in the shape of a  cat i love how simple yet effective this is

oh it's thunderstorming outside i have no  idea if you can hear that in the microphone  

very atmospheric

so

so that's it for this setup super simple  and adorable in my opinion i just love lim  

hang sweet's artwork i think it is so adorable i  also loved what they said about cats in a board  

panda article i found about them where they said  cats for me are very mysterious animals i like  

their personalities which are always curious calm  and relaxed i always feel soothed when observing  

their postures and i found that the curves of  cats can perfectly blend into natural landscape  

scenes therefore i decided to create a series  of cat landscape artworks in which the cats  

play hide and seek with you inside these minimal  landscape artworks i love everything about that  

as i said i will link all of their socials places  to find them places to see their artwork in the  

description box please go check them out if you  enjoyed this video give it a like and subscribe  

if you haven't already my plan for next week's  video is to show you a full flip through of my  

bullet journal that i used from january through  to the end of june of this year all my spreads  

after the pen all the messiness of my weeklies i  know you all love to see what my bullet journal  

looks like after i've used it so watch out for  that flip through in next week and with that i'm  

gonna get going thank you so much for watching  this video thank you to my patrons for your  

support y'all are the absolute best and with that  i'll see you very soon in the next one bye friends

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