by barbara luel | Oct 5, 2017 | dementia |
21st of September was Alzheimer’s day. This September also I started a new art workshop in a second care home for people with dementia. It seems to be quite a success so I’m very happy about it. On the first day we had 4 enthusiastic artists, and this week 3. They all...
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...