I will be honest, everything that is going on at the moment has been overwhelming hasn't it? I don't know about you but I have been having problems creating. I've found that all my usual creative block busting tricks have stopped working. But there have been some creative exercises that have been helping and I wanted to share them here in…
If you needed an arty pep talk and some help making more art and improving your art whilst you do it then I have you covered today! I am doing three abstract scribble art pieces using watercolour crayons whilst I revisit some ideas on how to get more art done and also improve your art skills along the way. So go…
I have five abstract art ideas to get you creating. So if you are looking for some ideas to get you art journaling, painting, or just playing creatively then I have you covered today! Watch the video, try them out and let me know how they go! There are different tips from art ideas to help you be more free with your…
Let's play with a watercolour doodle! Doodling seems to be as much as I can muster at the moment, what with the crayons last week and this easy way of adding lots of textures to a watercolour doodle today. I am using watercolour pens for my watercolour doodle but don't worry if you don't have any. You can swap in any…
I am sure that I have talked about messy art before, but it is worth revisiting! Because, if you find it hard to let yourself go and be free with your art, then allowing yourself to make messy art will help. It is a great art practice to do regularly and it can help you get through a lot of blocks.…
I know that it is not always easy to art. You stare at that page in your journal, piece of paper, canvas and nothing happens. We have all been there at some point. Sometimes you might have no ideas popping out and sometimes you might just have too many ideas all clamouring for attention. Well, in either case, often what you…
My art video this week has the second part to my 'Leftover Paint Art Challenge' PLUS some doodle tips. I am hoping that it gets you creating and doodling some more! Doodling has always been one of my favourite things and you can find lots of doodle ideas here on my blog. So every now and again I do like to go…
Art Challenge Time! What do you do with the paint leftover from a project? Usually I just wipe it from my palette onto a page in my Junk Journal to use later. Or if there is only a little bit left I might dump it. But not this time! My art challenge to you (and me!) is to use up some leftover…
Let's make some abstract bookmarks! So this is a really easy but also fun and challenging creative exercise. Challenging because you are working on a really small piece and working with as many colours as you can muster to make these abstract bookmarks. And of course the other benefit of these is that they are functional art too as you can use…
The world has been turned upside down and a lot of really messed up stuff is happening. But there is a lot of good stuff happening too so I wanted to share some of the arty-related good stuff in a creative resources link list and I hope that you are in a situation where it can help you. I hope to…
I have a new, fun, abstract faces exercise for you today and all you need for this one is some paint and some pens, oh and paper too! So keeping it simple again, just like we did for the creative exercise from the weekend. How did you get on with that Scribble exercise? I hope you had fun scribbling away and I…