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 | May 1, 2017 | creativity, watercolor tutorial |
Still drowned in work at the office, so I don’t manage to draw every day… because I’m tired in the evening and I get caught by “screen-sucking” activities… (Facebook, email, instagram,…) So I crawled up again from work two...
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 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...