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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Sketching Japan
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 🙂
“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 ?
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
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
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
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...
Simply Draw & Paint it in France, en français
Hello ! This is going to be exceptionnally a french post, for my urbansketching workshop in France, at Ile-de-Ré on 22nd august! I have to great opportunity to visit a dear friend there, and so give this workshop... It will mainly be in french, but of...
How to get the most out of art workshops
It's summer ! I love that time of the year because it's a time where people get some sunshine and are more smiling 🙂 The light gives me energy! It's also time to slow down for a lot of people, because it's hot, and the schools are closed, so the cities are more...
How to improve your observation drawing
It all started with some frustrating bad-looking lines ... How do you make your hand put a "good-looking" drawing on the paper when there's too much to look at ?As I was learning Yukiko, the japanese violin player I talked about in my previous blogpost, to...
Talent vs work
I had an interesting experience, giving my "Simply Draw it" urbansketching workshops for beginners this spring. I teach what I myself most need to learn, and learn much from the participants as well. I also learn a lot from the questions you ask me!After...
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