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 etc.”, and I just didn’t. It went from a small seed to an avalanche of inspiration, to […]
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The beginning, the end, the middle, the detours, the tangents, the tears, the history, inspiration, destruction, construction and everything else.
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 like a fox if you are not careful with their ears and their fluffy round faces. 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, they just took off. Some of the projects that came to life indeed were big, others very […]
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 thought continued all day. To me it does feel like cheating and it shouldn’t. The thing is, […]
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 Notre-Dame and stopped to borrow a couple of graphic novels at the St-Henri Library, then went for […]
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 you’re choking. Alejandra used to feel it and with this, she felt the panic of never being […]
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 not because my husband wasn’t home, but because I was not going to follow a schedule of […]
Why the name 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 FlowArte was using my watercolor work to design beautiful leggings for movement artists, like dancers or aerial […]
The humble “watercolor process”
I’ve mentioned Marc Taro, a watercolor artist from Montreal. He is an Urban Sketcher and Fine Artist and I’m a bit obsessed with his most recent watercolor process. I’ve taken his Travel Sketching in Mixed Media class on Craftsy and it is the best explanation […]
Getting Your First Art Show
Snow fell for the most part of the day. That soft, fluffy thing. The kind I love. It wasn’t cold. Just a perfect, memorable day. I wasn’t necessarily nervous until about 4:30 when I realized that I was doing my first art show IRL. You […]
Practicing one thing at a time
Today I felt like drawing. It’s January 15 and I’m already overwhelmed. There is not much to be done about that. Except to recognize when things are not flowing, take a little break and do something else. Since I started drawing and painting, I’ve practiced […]
Skip the recap but get a Free Printable 2018 Calendar
Did you do everything you wanted to do this 2017? No? That’s great. It means you did other things that you probably need to acknowledge now and they probably will surprise you. My friend and I have tried to do several end-of-year recaps using the […]