by barbara luel | Dec 21, 2020 | creativity, Urban sketching |
In the end of this very special year 2020 I’m very excited to announce you that I finally have an online drawing and painting class ! It’s on the Skillshare platform here ! Skillshare is a great platform where you pay a monthly fee and you access to more...
by barbara luel | Nov 27, 2020 | creativity |
“The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic. Start where you are. Don’t stop” [Seth Godin] I’m reading Seth Godin’s new book “The Practice” and I want to share some of his wisdom with you, because it talks about a...
by barbara luel | Oct 29, 2020 | creativity |
The virus never left us, and is back stronger en spreading faster then in march… Our politicians choose economy and productivity over well being. We’re going in “half-confinement” : culture and leisure are closed but we’re...
by barbara luel | Oct 16, 2020 | creativity |
Hello there ! How are you? For some of us the confinement is finished, but for a lot of people life is still very difficult. Belgium is probably confining again a bit from tonight on… Difficult times for a lot of people…. Difficult to focus and...
by barbara luel | Sep 4, 2020 | Non classé |
Today I want to try to answer this great question I received from Dana: ” I really love sketching buildings and architecture but struggle with getting the size of what I want to draw, right on the page I’m working on, and correct (or close to correct)...
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...
by barbara luel | Jun 6, 2020 | Urban sketching |
I want to share this beautiful text with you from Leslie Dwight: What if 2020 isn’t cancelled? What if 2020 is the year we’ve been waiting for? A year so uncomfortable, so painful, so scary, so raw – That it finally forces us to grow. A year that...
by barbara luel | May 10, 2020 | creativity, Urban sketching |
Confinement is coming to an end here in Belgium…. But I don’t want to … I had plenty of things I wanted to do, and I wanted to rest also, and plenty of things to CREATE, and I didn’t do it! I want more time of confinement… (I realize that I’m in a luxury...
by barbara luel | Apr 14, 2020 | creativity, watercolor tutorial |
Hello ! How are you feeling today? Today is day 28 of the confinement . I ended my 3rd leporello sketchbook with Camille again, taking a sun bath on the stairs. The video is below. I won’t share all the videos in this blogpost, but you can see them on my Youtube...
