Another #edsawareness article! If you were to ask me if I would go back to not having this illness then of course my answer would be a resounding YES! Undoubtable. But as far as I know there isn’t a magical medical wand that will fix that faulty gene that scientists aren’t even sure which one […]
Tag archives: sketchbook skool
Artistic Family Tree
In his book ‘Steal like an Artist’ UK US Austin Kleon recommends creating your artistic family tree. What he means by this is looking at artists you admire you need to study their work and try to understand them and how they work. Then you start to develop your own family tree of where your influences […]
Bravery
Doing new things – stepping outside of my comfort zone – by taking part in Sketchbook School has suddenly opened me up to being creatively very brave. I have created a Flickr account in my name (rather than being hidden under a pseudmun) and I am uploading regularly. I have submitted a Haiku to a […]
Freedom
My enjoyment of sketchbook skool continues. I think pen drawings with watercolour really suits me. I have tried all sorts of crafting – for example quilt making and clothes sewing and it requires a level of precision which just is not my forte. I tend to lose patience, mainly because I can’t make the edges […]
You have permission to fail
As I said I am taken the very brave plunge into taking an online art class – Sketchbook Skool. So far I am having a whale of a time working completely out of my comfort zone and really enjoying finding out that I am not so complelety rubbish as I thought! Don’t get me wrong […]
Stepping outside of my comfort zone
I have always wanted to be able to draw, really desperately wanted to be able to draw. My best friend growing up is an artist (who now works for the Kostler Trust), and when we flat shared in Brixton she was doing a MA in Fine Art at St Martins. I even have a tattoo […]