Saying yes to your ideas
I’ve wanted to make a zine for the longest time, but as usual I have been “waiting for the right time, the right topic, the skills, the tools…
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Art in Unexpected Places
Follow my blog on Bloglovin I was hard at work painting a dog, a Shiba Inu to be precise which has been so challenging. They tend to look…
Is Etsy Worth it?
I have been crunching numbers. It’s my least favorite thing to do and as a creator it’s twice as painful because through the corner of my eye I…
The Mystery of Unfinished Projects
Some projects have been in my head for most of my life. They have never even set foot outside my skull. Other projects happened without intention or reason,…
Digital vs. Analogue illustration
An artist I follow asked on Instagram if when drawing digitally (on iPad or other) if it feels like cheating. I just had to comment but then the…
Skillshare for Creative Thinking
Learning online has become an addiction for me, however in the beginning I was constantly striving to try to recreate the same thing that the teacher did. Quickly…
Advice for New Creatives
I find it realistic to say that you will only get good at your craft after a minimum of two years of hard practice. Quantity does not mean…
Montreal Brunch
One of the most intriguing things I’ve come across is how patient Canadians are when it comes to brunch. On Saturday I went for a walk along Rue…
Alejandra Pizarnik
Sometimes there is a world of words that want to come out but they don’t. They accumulate at the base of the throat and before you know it…
A Summer Without Instagram (and most Social Media)
By the middle of June I was done. I looked around my studio and felt such overwhelm despite having fulfilled a lifelong dream: a room of my own.…
How do you curate your own artwork?
Short answer: you curate without mercy. I spent the week alone. My husband was traveling and I stayed home with my pup.Of course I had epic plans. And…
FlowArte?
The word Flow represents so many things: movement, ease, softness, something that is constant, evolutionary but mostly it’s something without beginning or end. Infinite. One initial idea behind…