by barbara luel | Mar 15, 2025 | creativity |
Have you ever enthusiastically opened your sketchbook, pencil ready for action, only to find your brain has suddenly decided to take an impromptu vacation? Zero ideas, zilch inspiration—it’s like your inner artist packed its bags and vanished without warning!...
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 | 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 | 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...
