by barbara luel | Sep 8, 2017 | creativity, Urban sketching |
I rarely felt so happy to get home. What was I looking for, being five weeks in Italy? What was I looking for that I can’t find at home? I was traveling to get out of my comfort zone. Yes I had a lot of fun sketching every day, feeling the sun on my skin felt...
by barbara luel | Jun 18, 2017 | creativity |
Last week I organized an urban sketching event for the local cultural center, so some students never had been urban sketching. There was a lady who hadn’t been drawing since years. Actually to be more precise: since she was a child, some 30 years ago… It...
by barbara luel | May 21, 2017 | creativity |
When I’m in a creativity dip, I read Sol Le Witt’s very funny and inspiring letter to Eva Hesse, suffering from creative block and self-doubt. Usually I’m in a creativity dip because I don’t manage to make time for drawing and painting. The...
by barbara luel | May 1, 2017 | creativity, watercolor tutorial |
Still drowned in work at the office, so I don’t manage to draw every day… because I’m tired in the evening and I get caught by “screen-sucking” activities… (Facebook, email, instagram,…) So I crawled up again from work two...
by barbara luel | Apr 14, 2017 | creativity, Urban sketching |
What a strange week… Bombs were thrown in Syria and Afghanistan, and billionaire world leaders are making laws to make the rich more rich and the poor more poor… Power, brutality, starvation, miserable working poor… Depressing. But did you make some...