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With so much information, inspiration and influence, how do you find your own creative path?​

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Living Small, Slow and Quietly

We enter the Summer. This means silencing the information overload and ceasing to participate for the next two months.I wrote about this in this post. I need it…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda June 25, 2020July 10, 2020 2 min read
What will we learn

Today

I’ve been avoiding reading about covid-19. I receive the Quartz newsletter and that’s about all I was able to handle. But today, March 25, 2020. I’m reading about…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 3 min read
Sketchbook and pencil on a desk

How I Manage my Time Online

Raise your hand if you’ve tried to reduce your time online or at least your phone. I know I have. For the longest time.  I hated that I…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda March 3, 2020March 16, 2020 4 min read
Is Etsy Worth It?

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…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda July 7, 2019August 8, 2019 5 min read
WorkSpace October

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…
Creative Independence, Latest Luisa Fernanda October 1, 2018September 12, 2019 2 min read
Social Media Detox

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.…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda June 29, 2018June 25, 2020 5 min read

Five Things Friday

   The begining of my reconciliation with Yoga. A 30 day journey. For years I said I didn’t like Yoga. I first tried it almost three decades ago…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda April 7, 2018February 28, 2020 2 min read
Thumbnail studies

One Month in France, week four

I’m writing this from Montreal. The month in France came to its conclusion. We are home. It feels strange to look out the window and see the same…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda April 2, 2018August 7, 2019 3 min read

One month in France, week three

  I am in a city that does not have the stereotypical French glamour. It’s not Paris and it’s not the charming little wine village. Some days I…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda March 22, 2018August 7, 2019 2 min read
Watercolor cow by flowarte

One month in France, week two

The first thing I noticed in Lyon was the sky. The trace of airplanes that flew by a few moments before. We arrived early after a short train…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda March 16, 2018August 27, 2019 2 min read

One month in France, week one.

As I walked down the stairs of our Airbnb I told my husband (again) that I was in turmoil because I couldn’t decide where to focus my energy,…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda March 6, 2018August 7, 2019 2 min read
FlowArte Watercolor Trees

Five Things Friday

A belated Five Things Friday post. Getting ready. We´re going to France for a month. My feelings: I hate the airplane, I love France. Life is surprising. Time…
Creative Independence Luisa Fernanda February 25, 2018August 7, 2019 2 min read

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Filling the sketchbooks. This one is a small @clai Filling the sketchbooks. This one is a small @clairefontaine_officiel flying spirit. The most beautiful sketching paper for #waxpastels, #colourpencils and a bit of acrylic ink. I usually close my eyes and draw a head shape.. usually wobbly and lopsided but I work with that. Add features and see who comes up. She looks confident and calm.. doesn't she? I would call her Helena.
Free to draw bigger Free to draw bigger
I am diligently filling up sketchbooks that I've b I am diligently filling up sketchbooks that I've bought on a whim. Using up my materials with abandon. Fighting the fear of "wasting". It's all steps towards progress I play with the Zorn palette and gouache for portraits, I want to break free from capturing likeness and more capturing a state. What is she thinking? What is she like? Landscapes prefer wax pastels or oil pastels Drawing prefers chunky graphite, blobs of ink, finger smudging. How to bring it all together? Does it have to go together? . . . . . . . #timeonmyhands #consciouscreativity #instapainting #keepdrawing #studioartist #exploreanddevelop #creativeathome #reallifeishere #womenwhodraw #zines
My husband is teaching again in the evenings via Z My husband is teaching again in the evenings via Zoom, so I decided that if he’s working, then I will also work. Two hours of art practice without interruption was what I needed. I realize that if I assign myself specific times I do much more than if I look at a whole day of “creativity” before me. The latter never works. I waste time. The last co-creating session with one of my patrons gave me an epiphany. I have been putting off my biggest dream because I thought I had to learn a bunch of stuff before I tackled that one… well, I don’t. I just went ahead and did the thing and it’s all improvement from there… This is the desk after my mad session. I made many small booklets, plus some sketches. I wanted to try my wax pastels on the Canson mixed media paper and see if the effect was what I wanted. Yesterday I bought a big 14 x 17 inch pad, I’m not sure if I want to actually paint bigger. I have no space for big pieces, but maybe for one of a kind books. I’m excited about books. I really am! Do you prefer a whole day at the studio or specific scheduled time? . . . . . . . #timeonmyhands #consciouscreativity #instapainting #keepdrawing #studioartist #exploreanddevelop #creativeathome #reallifeishere #womenwhodraw #zines
Are you enjoying your lazy Labour Day? It's cloud Are you enjoying your lazy Labour Day? It's cloudy here and I had insomnia. I was awake until 4:30 reading. I can't even be sure if it was insomnia or I was deep in my book. A novel by @lisajewelluk titled The Family Upstairs. I finished it in three days. It had been a while since I'd been sucked into a story like this. Perfect for the changing season. I filmed two @patreon posts this morning. How strange it seems that just a few months I'd declared that I would never do video and now here I am, actually getting better at it. Losing the fear of my voice faltering, listening back and editing and thinking, this isn't so bad... today's video is another drawing exercise. One of my favourites. It's always a huge surprise to me. If you'd like to join, the link in in my bio. These days, I've been painting with one colour (when I'm not drawing): FW, Acrylic ink, Red Earth (Daler Rowney), it is so rich I want to dip my mop brush and make a mural, but I'm keeping it small for now. I'm moving closer to my dream project which is to make one-of-a-kind artist books. These are a few of the first ones. I made them on watercolour paper so writing on them is a bit tough. How about you, what are you working on these days? . . . . . . . #womenwhopaint #ladieswhodraw #womenwhodraw #womenillustrators #illustratorsofinstagram #womenofcreation #heartartists #inthestudio #virginiawoolf #tovejansson #colette #flowarte #chattycaptioncommunity #artistbooks
A good summer despite the world’s madness. I mad A good summer despite the world’s madness. I made a lot of art. I explored, experimented, used my materials, I’m finally using my sketchbooks almost every day. Doing whatever calls me. I also wrote a few blog posts and I launched a @patreon page, which was not very strategic since I opened it the same day I decided to take my Social Media break, but it’s been great. I have lost the fear of making videos and sometimes even narrating what I’m doing. Appreciating those days in which my voice cooperates. During this time, one of the things that I rediscovered was the gel press which I’d bought about four years ago. I hadn’t really used it, as it seemed to me that it was for more crafty projects, but it turns out it can do so much! With the added bonus that each print is totally unique. This is one of those pieces, a freehand portrait that came out quite expressive. How was your summer? Did you shift things around? . . . . . . . . . #womenwhopaint #ladieswhodraw #womenwhodraw #womenillustrators #illustratorsofinstagram #womenofcreation #heartartists #inthestudio #virginiawoolf #tovejansson #colette #flowarte #chattycaptioncommunity

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