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...
by barbara luel | Mar 31, 2017 | creativity, Urban sketching, vulnerability |
How much I would like to be “an untroubled wholeness with the world”… [Sarah Kaufman] These last two weeks I have been again much too busy : I feel I’m being lived, rather then living enjoying life. And the first part of me getting lost is my...
by barbara luel | Feb 24, 2017 | creativity, vulnerability |
When in doubt… The monkeys in my head have been very active lately, making my self-doubt grow, telling me “I make crap and nobody’s interested, telling me I’m boring or ugly, telling me I’m too old for this and that… And look at...
by barbara luel | Feb 19, 2017 | creativity |
Where have I been lately? So it’s true what “they” say: from the beginning of february on, the good resolutions of the new year vanish? I was going to draw each day, but it didn’t work out. I got sucked up in work again, too much work in the...
by barbara luel | Jan 29, 2017 | creativity |
There’s no magic trick and it’s not about talent. It’s about time to focus and practice. So what did you do with your first month of January? I had loads of work, so I didn’t take the time enough I was writing about on the 31st of...
by barbara luel | Dec 31, 2016 | creativity |
Let’s take the time in 2017… “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” [Mary Oliver in “The central commitment of creative...
