Posts Tagged ‘dinadajanisketching’
The 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 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 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…
Read MoreManchester Memories….
This is where my journey of reconnecting with my creativity started. After many years of life getting in the way (as it often does for all of us) and me simply forgetting the one thing that made me always feel alive. The year of 2016 found me on my quest of soul-searching, a quest that…
Read MoreMy daily sketching habit and how it all started
When I decided that I wanted to get back to my creativity getting in touch with my roots and doing things which I loved more. I found the urban sketching society and started my journey of self discovery. I then started taking online classes and traveling to urban sketching symposiums, which in turn aided in…
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