by barbara luel | Mar 7, 2022 | creativity, drawing, Urban sketching |
When the world is literally falling apart in wars, human and natural disasters “This is precisely the time when artists go to work,” Toni Morrison wrote in her electrifying case for the artist’s task in troubled times. “There is no time for despair, no place for...
by barbara luel | Dec 31, 2021 | creativity, drawing |
On the last week of the year I’m always taking time to reflect on the past year and on the coming year. It’s the slowest and most busy week of the year, where I end up puzzled for not having done what I wanted to do. I found a nice list of questions to...
by barbara luel | Sep 16, 2021 | drawing |
The beginning of autumn is for me always a beautiful time, but as well an overwhelming time. Light is changing, colors are changing. Life is changing… I’m in total overwhelm for the moment! We will be moving out of our house in a couple of months, my hubby...
by barbara luel | Jan 26, 2021 | creativity, drawing, watercolor tutorial |
Hello everyone ! I hope you’re going well in this first month of 2021? I want to share some creative inspiration with you, to get you going and make the best out of this year ! First of all I want to talk about Ian Fennelly’s book that was published...
by barbara luel | Aug 16, 2020 | drawing |
Do you take time to look and see carefully? Be the drawing subject, become the flower, become the house, be the sunset you want to draw… Be here, be now, be present. Drawing is an active meditation: a feeling of being, of connecting, of time stopping to wonder. ...
by barbara luel | Jul 16, 2020 | drawing |
Drawing in difficult times… For some of us the confinement is finished, but for a lot of people life is still very difficult. I was mainly following the urbansketchers movement, and drawing has meant a lot to many people in recent months – to those who...
