by barbara luel | Mar 17, 2018 | creativity |
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later” [Bob Goff, writer] Restlessness is invading me: I’m leaving again for Japan. This time to see the cherry blossoms. I’ll make some...
by barbara luel | Dec 4, 2017 | creativity |
You’re rejected How many times have I heard that my work was rejected for this or that competition, … I hear “you’re rejected”, instead of “your work is not selected”. It hurts and I take it too personally: I identify myself with my work, I AM my work. So I’m...
by barbara luel | Oct 30, 2017 | creativity, Urban sketching |
In need of a creativity boost I organized a workshop with the great Malaysian artist Ch’ng Kiah Kiean on 20 & 21 October. It was a wonderful weekend. Ch’ng Kiah Kiean is a generous teacher. His specialty is sketching with dry twigs and Chinese ink. Here’s his...
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...
