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 | 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 | Mar 11, 2017 | Urban sketching, watercolor tutorial |
Here’s another video about Urban sketching ! This one was made in the beautiful Kenrokuen Garden in Kanazawa. It’s one of my favorite spots in Japan. Kanazawa is a very beautiful city, and the Kenrokuen Garden is one of the most beautiful gardens in Japan....
by barbara luel | Feb 28, 2017 | Urban sketching, watercolor tutorial |
This video was made in Kyoto imperial park in november (yes I know…. long time ago! We don’t find much time to edit the videos… I still have 5 other ones waiting to be edited!). I wanted to paint the beautiful gingko trees. I hesitated to post this...
by barbara luel | Jul 17, 2016 | Urban sketching |
Half of the fun of a holiday or of a happy event is the time before: the joy of imagining the journey, the joy of the preparation and the planning part. I find it actually often more fun than the trip or holiday in itself. My imagination is often more powerful than...
