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 | Aug 7, 2018 | Urban sketching |
Hi everybody ! I hope you have a great summer and that your inner artist is having a great time as well! I’m fully boosted from the Urbansketchers symposium in Porto in july! I had 4 great workshops from which I want to share some “takeaways”. To...
by barbara luel | Mar 17, 2018 | creativity |
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later” [Bob Goff, writer] Restlessness is invading me: I’m leaving again for Japan. This time to see the cherry blossoms. I’ll make some...
by barbara luel | Dec 4, 2017 | creativity |
You’re rejected How many times have I heard that my work was rejected for this or that competition, … I hear “you’re rejected”, instead of “your work is not selected”. It hurts and I take it too personally: I identify myself with my work, I AM my work. So I’m...
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...