Simply Draw & Paint it
Hi !
Here I share my thoughts about living a creative life, about how I found more and more fun and joy in making art and looking for creativity by getting rid of my demons like fear, perfectionism, what-might-other-people-think, ugliness (what’s that anyway?), Art with a big A, dogma’s …. Everybody is an artist and everybody is creative!
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#CREATE confinement sketchbook 13
As a last sketch in this second confinement concertina sketchbook I painted my cat, taking a nap on the radiator under my drawing table I first made a pencil sketch of the main shapes, and then some fine ballpoint lines for the more detailed stuff on the window sill....
#CREATE corona sketchbook 11 & 12
Here are two more sketches, from yesterday and today. I try to alternate inside views with outside views. As I miss big dinners with our friends, I wanted to draw a view towards the dining table... the dining table with empty chairs waiting for the friends to come...
#CREATE corona sketchbook 9&10
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 inspiration... đ ...
#CREATE corona sketchbook 8
Hello everyone ! If you're reading this during this Corona virus pandemic, wherever in the world you are right now : PLEASE STAY SAFE, stay as far away as possible from other people ! This virus IS NOT A SIMPLE FLU ! You can find testimonies from people in Italy and...
#CREATE corona sketchbook 7
Helloo! How are you today? Here's a beautifu fresh spring sunshine! I'm very lucky. It makes this confinement less gloomy! I only have a very small piece of a page left to finish this concertina sketchbook, so I have to make something that fits...
#CREATE corona sketchbook 6
👋👋👋these are the houses of my dear neighbours 🌸🌸🌸 Every evening we try to go and clap and make music at the windows and doors to thank the healthcare workers. It's a joy to live in front of a rock guitarist who takes his...
#CREATE Corona sketchbook 5
Today I wanted to make a sketch of my living room, while Camille, my cat, was peacefully sleeping in a corner of the couch. The couch is very red, with white blankets on it to protect it from cat hair and from friends spilling wine and food on it đ I drew on the...
#CREATE corona sketchbook 4
Another challenge of being confined at home is trying not to gain too much weight! Usually I bike to the office and move a lot... now I'm just sitting at home, eating, with a gass of wine and chocolate.... So I started fitnessing at home with online videos, and I make...
#CREATE Corona sketchbook 3
Day 3 confined at home.... I didn't know I was so tired!! Now that I'm staying home I feel it.... When we run to work everyday we just keep going and don't dare to slow down: we feel guilty when we slow down and want to work less... Why? Because I've learned that I...
#CREATE Corona sketchbook 2
Here's the first sketch in this concertina (accordeon) sketchbook. It's a sketchbook by Sennelier, with nice thick paper, called "USK book" (Urbansketching book). The paper is 340 g thick and you can paint with mixed media on it: it takes water quite well. It's...
#CREATE Corona sketchbook 1
How are you doing? Are you confined at home like I am ? I'm supposed to work at home, but with all building sites stopping one by one, and projects slowing down, I'm actually getting out of work... This is also a dangerous time for my architecture office because we...
Kisetsu 🌸🌸🌸
Hello my dearest !  Iâm so excited my book with drawings of Japan is finally published ! Excited and afraid⊠afraid people wonât like it and wonât buy it of course⊠Is it good enough? Is it beautiful enough? Did I leave some typing errors in the texts?.... ...
5 things that happen when you carry a sketchbook with you
I get a lot of questions about how to make best progress in drawing and painting. I think the best way is to "play" and experiment regularly in a sketchbook! A sketchbook will give your inner artist some space to grow and will help you to find your own style, and...
Progress, not perfection
Hello my dear! Here's another video I made in Kanazawa. It's the same tea house as in the previous video, but seen from the other side of the lake. First I made the drawing in pencil (I use Palomino Blackwing pencil medium hard graphite.) and then I started...
Have a beautiful end of the year
Hello my dearest! Are you preparing your resolutions for the new year? I always make a huge list of what I plan to do better in the coming new year and guess what ? I'm usually too ambitious and also not so very kind for myself and then of course at the end of...
Sketching Japan
Hello my dearest !   I just came back from Japan ! It was a wonderful breath of fresh air!  I nearly thought I wouldnât make it to the plane, as I was in a great mess before leaving: I was drowning in problems at the officeâŠ. I felt really sick before leaving and...
Sketch with your emotions đ
âTo make art you need your eyes, your hands and your HEART. Itâs your heart that makes you choose your colours. Your emotional side.â And : "What does the picture need?" Choose your colours according to your mood and according to what the picture needs. This is the...
How about drawing with a twig ?
The great Malaysian artist Châng Kiah Kiean came sketching in Belgium before heading to the urbansketchers symposium in Amsterdam in July and guess what? Serge, my darling husband, made a video of him sketching and I'm going to share it with you so you can admire the...
It’s all about playing
As Paul Wang was in Europe for the symposium I hosted a workshop for him in Antwerp and a sketchcrawl in Ghent.
We were all very excited to learn from him.
Paul is a very generous teacher. I share a video from the workshop and some takeaways, but if you have the chance to take one of his workshops please go for it, because youâll learn so much !
Takeaways from the Amsterdam Urbansketching Symposium
workshop with Paul Wang Hi everybody! I just came home from the 10th Urbansketchers symposium in Amsterdam, full of creative energy! Iâm fully boosted from these over 1000 happy creatives from 47 different countries!! I had some great workshops from which I want to...
