Posts by ddajani
Visual Journaling Workshop! Recording Memories!
Beginner Level Overview We all have stories to tell, memories to cherish, often these get lost with time as we go through this very busy and fast life. We also are visual creatures (or at least some of us are). We respond better to pictures often more than words. If you are one of those…
Read MoreBlack Pens in Sketching and how to choose the best fit
Finding the perfect black pen In my work I like to use black pens or liners over my initial pencil work before or after adding the watercolours to give it that sketchy look. When working in special watercolour sketchbooks I use fountain pens but that’s for another post. For my daily sketching in pocket moleskine…
Read MoreThe Creative Doer By Anna Lovind Review
The Creative Doer is on the list of our January’s book discussion read for a mastermind group I am taking part in. If it wasn’t for the group maybe I wouldn’t have had the chance to stumble across this gem. I am so glad I did. Day two into the book and I am half…
Read MoreShut Your Monkey By Danny Gregory
Why Shut Your Monkey ? Is Shut Your Monkey a book for me? Well, if you are a creative of any sorts then you are inevitably cursed with the inner critic syndrome ! We all have it. It’s like an unspoken rule of all creatives. My daughter is thirteen as I type this and I…
Read MoreArt Before Breakfast By Danny Gregory
My biggest outtake form Art Before Breakfast I am guessing you are here researching Art Before Breakfast by Danny Gregory because you want to get inspired to live your life with a bit more creativity in it. I was. That’s why it ended on my bookshelf. I have read it a while ago and been…
Read MoreUrban Sketching in Lisbon and the memories I Want to Capture Forever
Urban Sketching and the memories it holds I’ve said it before, urban sketching is the best way to engrave moments and memories in ones brain. They tend to stay and linger there forever, very welcomed I may add. Exploring Lisbon one day going to the Monastery Moisterio Dos Jeronimos I took shelter under the shade…
Read MoreEveryday Sketching Routines You Will Want to Adopt
WHY ADOPT EVERYDAY SKETCHING ROUTINES IN THE FIRST PLACE? Well let’s start with the fact that if you are here reading this. It is probably because you have been trying to adopt everyday sketching routines and make it more of a habit, incorporating it into your daily life. Wether it is just purely to live…
Read MoreWhite pens in sketching! The why, how and my favorites…
When you start sketching for the first time or get back to it after longer period, you will find yourself trying to mimic every detail and every line being tempted to colour the whole thing in. While that is what you see, leaving white space on the paper is the most effective way to achieve…
Read MoreViarco visit memories and the lessons it taught me…
Few years back even before my trip to Portugal was in the stars. My friend was talking to me about how her sister in-law had gifted her with a moleskine small sketchbook and graphite in a new form I haven’t seen before. It was water soluble graphite that came in a little round tin the…
Read MoreThe Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
The inner critic, the censor, the monkey… call it what you want, it all boils down to one thing! As I read and go through more and more art books about discovering or rather recovering my creative self. I find that they all emphasize on one thing. YOU being your own self worst enemy. If…
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