by barbara luel | Mar 28, 2020 | creativity, drawing, Urban sketching, watercolor tutorial |
For this second sketchbook I try to very more between inside subjects and outside sujects, ans some techniques. I painted a detail of a door, and then my art supplies… Actually when I paint my art supplies it means that I’m tired and out of...
by barbara luel | Mar 4, 2020 | drawing, Urban sketching |
Hello my dearest ! I’m so excited my book with drawings of Japan is finally published ! Excited and afraid… afraid people won’t like it and won’t buy it of course… Is it good enough? Is it beautiful enough? Did I leave some typing errors in the texts?…....
by barbara luel | Jul 16, 2019 | creativity, Urban sketching |
Summer started! Well, at least if you’re in the same hemisphere as me in Brussels. :)With the summer comes an air of liberty, excitement and restlessness of Fomo (fear of missing out) : I’m having already a lot on my todo-list for this summer- again toooooo...
by barbara luel | Jun 1, 2019 | Urban sketching |
It all started with some frustrating bad-looking lines … How do you make your hand put a “good-looking” drawing on the paper when there’s too much to look at ?As I was learning Yukiko, the japanese violin player I talked about in my previous...
by barbara luel | Apr 8, 2019 | Urban sketching, watercolor tutorial |
It’s that time of the year again: cherry blossoms are blooming.In Brussels we’re lucky to have several varieties of blossom trees: some blooming earlier then others. So we have a large time lapse to go sketching.I went sketching last weekend and my darling...
by barbara luel | Nov 11, 2018 | Urban sketching |
“To make art you need your eyes, your hands and your HEART. It’s your heart that makes you choose your colours. Your emotional side.”This is the most important thing I remember from the workshop in Den Haag with Ian Fennelly on 27th october. It was a...
