Simply Draw & Paint it

Hi !

Here I share my thoughts about living a creative life, about how I found more and more fun and joy in making art and looking for creativity by getting rid of my demons like fear, perfectionism, what-might-other-people-think, ugliness (what’s that anyway?), Art with a big A, dogma’s …. Everybody is an artist and everybody is creative!

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5 things that happen when you carry a sketchbook with you

by barbara luel | Feb 16, 2020 | creativity, drawing | 18 Comments

I get a lot of questions about how to make best progress in drawing and painting. I think the best way is to "play" and experiment regularly in a sketchbook! A sketchbook will give your inner artist some space to grow and will help you to find your own style, and...

Progress, not perfection

by barbara luel | Jan 12, 2020 | Non classé | 10 Comments

Hello my dear! Here's another video I made in Kanazawa. It's the same tea house as in the previous video, but seen from the other side of the lake. First I made the drawing in pencil (I use Palomino Blackwing pencil medium hard graphite.) and then I started...

Have a beautiful end of the year

by barbara luel | Dec 27, 2019 | Non classé | 6 Comments

Hello my dearest! Are you preparing your resolutions for the new year? I always make a huge list of what I plan to do better in the coming new year and guess what ? I'm usually too ambitious and also not so very kind for myself and then of course at the end of...

Sketching Japan

by barbara luel | Nov 11, 2019 | Non classé | 16 Comments

Hello my dearest ! I just came back from Japan ! It was a wonderful breath of fresh air! I nearly thought I wouldn’t make it to the plane, as I was in a great mess before leaving: I was drowning in problems at the office…. I felt really sick before leaving and...

Sketch with your emotions 🙂

by barbara luel | Sep 8, 2019 | Non classé | 4 Comments

“To make art you need your eyes, your hands and your HEART. It’s your heart that makes you choose your colours. Your emotional side.” And : "What does the picture need?" Choose your colours according to your mood and according to what the picture needs. This is the...

How about drawing with a twig ?

by barbara luel | Aug 13, 2019 | Non classé | 11 Comments

The great Malaysian artist Ch’ng Kiah Kiean came sketching in Belgium before heading to the urbansketchers symposium in Amsterdam in July and guess what? Serge, my darling husband, made a video of him sketching and I'm going to share it with you so you can admire the...

It’s all about playing

by barbara luel | Aug 9, 2019 | Non classé | 8 Comments

As Paul Wang was in Europe for the symposium I hosted a workshop for him in Antwerp and a sketchcrawl in Ghent.

We were all very excited to learn from him.

Paul is a very generous teacher. I share a video from the workshop and some takeaways, but if you have the chance to take one of his workshops please go for it, because you’ll learn so much !

Takeaways from the Amsterdam Urbansketching Symposium

by barbara luel | Aug 2, 2019 | Non classé | 5 Comments

workshop with Paul Wang Hi everybody! I just came home from the 10th Urbansketchers symposium in Amsterdam, full of creative energy! I’m fully boosted from these over 1000 happy creatives from 47 different countries!! I had some great workshops from which I want to...

Art supplies to find your super power

by barbara luel | Jul 16, 2019 | creativity, Urban sketching | 0 Comments

Summer started! Well, at least if you're in the same hemisphere as me in Brussels. :)With the summer comes an air of liberty, excitement and restlessness of Fomo (fear of missing out) : I’m having already a lot on my todo-list for this summer- again...