by barbara luel | Oct 30, 2017 | creativity, Urban sketching |
In need of a creativity boost I organized a workshop with the great Malaysian artist Ch’ng Kiah Kiean on 20 & 21 October. It was a wonderful weekend. Ch’ng Kiah Kiean is a generous teacher. His specialty is sketching with dry twigs and Chinese ink. Here’s his...
by barbara luel | Feb 24, 2017 | creativity, vulnerability |
When in doubt… The monkeys in my head have been very active lately, making my self-doubt grow, telling me “I make crap and nobody’s interested, telling me I’m boring or ugly, telling me I’m too old for this and that… And look at...
by barbara luel | Feb 19, 2017 | creativity |
Where have I been lately? So it’s true what “they” say: from the beginning of february on, the good resolutions of the new year vanish? I was going to draw each day, but it didn’t work out. I got sucked up in work again, too much work in the...
by barbara luel | Sep 2, 2016 | creativity |
Hello my dear! What have you been up to lately? And how are you? I hope all is for the best! I haven’t written for a while, being busy with summer time. Summer time’s a welcome break in the busy working year. Days are long, weather is (supposed to be) good, we have a...
by barbara luel | Jun 26, 2016 | creativity |
Hello my dear! You’re an artist!* *But perhaps you don’t know it yet. You just need to be curious about something, and that “something” can be anything, according to art critic Will Gompertz in his last book “Think like an artist”....
