Mon carnet de poche
In the age of digital I still love notebooks too much. Like books, it’s difficult to not be attracted to the beauty of a bound paper object. The…
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Virginia was right
How many of us have read A room of one’s own? Or maybe not read it but quoted it? After nearly 8 years, today I have a room…
Copying, Comparing, belonging and other worries.
It’s very hard to not look at what others are doing. It’s very hard not to start comparing ouselves. Wondering if we are original or just copying. It’s…
Artists and Self-Compassion
Impatience, scatterdness, information overload, learning, learning, learning.Who has time for creativity or even a little self-compassion when you can’t do it all? One day off, but we need…
“I can do that” syndrome
When you look at art, do you have the “I can do that” syndrome? But can you really, at this point in your artistic path? Let’s find out.…
This isn’t Creativity Advice
Somewhere in the last couple of years, I decided I wouldn’t wait anymore for the “time to be right”. And it wasn’t some sort of creativity advice that…
Fear of the new sketchbook
Yesterday I went to Montpellier with a very specific mission: to buy a wonderful sketchbook for my visit to Florence at the end of August. Getting to Montpellier…
Showing Your Art
“I’m afraid you have talent” said my shrink. As she let out an uncomfortable little laugh. I’d shown her a photo my second-ever painting. The painting depicted a…
The Act of Writing an Introvert’s Paradise
The act of writing is always intriguing. To see someone writing, cracks my curiosity wide open. When I was young, I saw a classmate writing what seemed a…