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Helen Stephens's avatar

I see β€˜live’ but on Friday at launch time Gerry brought a bottle of β€˜Olivio’ out of the cupboard and asked if the new course was about this brand of olive oil. I told him not to be so annoying πŸ™„

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Chris Koch's avatar

Katie ,your substack andd writing and point of view about life and drawing and live illustration and olives from Aldi are so much fun. Love it. Please, keep writing , drawing and make your family have happy dances and your readers laugh out loud in their homes ,inmidst the daily hustle of life.

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Katie Chappell's avatar

thank you! It felt easier to laugh about this vs panic-edit any graphics 🀣🀣🀣❀️

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Gaynor Adkins's avatar

Any olives - as long as they are pitted - who what’s to see a little pile of chewed olive pips at the side of a plate?! 😩

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Scribblings and Things's avatar

O Love this! πŸ™ˆβ˜ΊοΈ(sorry couldn’t resist)

But not a fan of actual olives … so I’m relieved we won’t be forced to eat them or walk the plank!

Looking forward to the course and enjoyed your brilliant masterclass ☺️

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RAJ KAUR's avatar

Love Olives! Excited to start on Monday!

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Tanya Hankinson's avatar

Green olives stuffed with garlic for me! πŸ«’ Aaand sliced black olives on pizza or in pasta. Yummmm.

I read live, definitely only the teeniest problem, which can wait for another day! Very much looking forward to the course!

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Margreet de Heer's avatar

Hahahaha! Green olives for me, preferably depitted and/or stuffed. The occasional black olive.

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Beth Spencer's avatar

I love that it's like one of those fun "Alligator food" tricks! 🐊

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Nanette Regan's avatar

Haha! I have never, ever, not once read it as Olive - but now I see it! Ooooh, partners can be annoying sometimes!

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The Gleeful Dabbler's avatar

My cat is called Olive and she features in quite a few of my illustrations, so we're both extra-excited about the course now!

I'm sharing a link to an image in case it works. https://substack.com/@thegleefuldabbler/note/c-110894929

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Julie Lucht de Freibruch's avatar

I also read it as Olive! But didn’t want to be *that* person πŸ˜‚ Love mixed olives, and even crush them up as a tapenade… fancy ☺️

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Data+Drawing with Sophie's avatar

For the record, I read it a 'LIVE' ☺️ (though I think olives are delicious too! πŸ«’)

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Dunja Popin's avatar

I really can't decide whether the live illustration is my cup of tea or not. What should I google to find a talk similar to what you usually get as a job, to try and draw it and see if I feel comfortable or not? "Very boring meeting" or "Corporate blah blah" is not going to give me the right results and I'm a bit lost. πŸ™ˆ Thank you!

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Dunja Popin's avatar

Not at all The Olive illustration - not with these colours! (Only if it's about the olives from Neptune).

Perhaps the fact that "The" is in the same colour as the first circled symbol makes some people think that this circle is also to be read as the letter "O"?

You could just keep the symbols, the star and the pencil, and delete the circles, or swap the places of the pencil and the star (hoping not to get The i-Live with it.)

Olive Taggiasche for me!

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Typ Γ…sa's avatar

Whoop whoop πŸ™Œ I’m in!

Joining on Monday

I’ve worked as a project lead for arranging kick offs for a corporate brand. My intention is to be working as an full time illustrator in a couple of years.

Γ…sa πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ¦²πŸŽ€

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

I had this with Creative Cocoon! I was literally the only one who couldn’t see it. Lovely olives, lovely live illo! πŸ©·πŸ’š

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