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 | 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 | 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 | Sep 8, 2017 | creativity, Urban sketching |
I rarely felt so happy to get home. What was I looking for, being five weeks in Italy? What was I looking for that I can’t find at home? I was traveling to get out of my comfort zone. Yes I had a lot of fun sketching every day, feeling the sun on my skin felt...
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...
