by barbara luel | Jun 1, 2019 | Urban sketching |
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...
by barbara luel | May 11, 2019 | creativity |
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...
by barbara luel | Apr 15, 2019 | watercolor tutorial |
They were in full bloom last sunday, the big light pink cherry blossom balls on the old japanese trees in the garden town Le Logis Floréal in Brussels. In the 1920’s these trees were send over straight from Japan, when the garden town was finished.They’re...
by barbara luel | Apr 8, 2019 | Urban sketching, watercolor tutorial |
It’s that time of the year again: cherry blossoms are blooming.In Brussels we’re lucky to have several varieties of blossom trees: some blooming earlier then others. So we have a large time lapse to go sketching.I went sketching last weekend and my darling...
by barbara luel | Feb 28, 2019 | Non classé |
My head is empty and my hand is not doing what I want. And I don’t know what I want. The result is not OK. I lost it, it seems…I make drawing after drawing since last week and an empty feeling invades me and a warm shame washes over me: I hate what I made...
