Posts by Dina
Show Your Work ! By Austin Kleon
Show Your Work is a book I needed to read many years ago. Truth be told in todays world and at the time of me writing this review. Most of you are already doing it anyway. If not only sharing but maybe even oversharing. If like me you have been reading many blog posts, researching…
Read MoreSteal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon Book Review
I have had Steal Like An Artist few years now on my kindle and never got to reading it till the end. Until I bought it recently as a hard copy. Something about this little book and its format is demanding to be read from an actual hard copy as opposed to reading it from…
Read MoreWatercolour Workshop for a Complete Novice
Beginner Level Overview Watercolour workshop for a complete novice is covering basic knowledge about the medium and ways of creating with it. Covering the technical aspects along with general manipulation methods. It is strictly practical and designed to give you all the basic practice exercises, so you can better work with it. This is not…
Read MoreVisual 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…
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