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Hope you are enjoying the Spring weather. Last March 11-15, @ohn_mar_win had a mini challenge called 5 Days of Spring Blooms to celebrate the season and paint five different flowers. I enjoyed doing the Autumn one last year, so this would be a fun challenge to get into the Spring season. This time, I played on two sketchbooks except for the last prompt. I did a warm-up on a separate sketchbook, and the final ones were in the same accordion journal, where I did the autumn flowers. I’ve posted all of these in my IG feed, but this is worth writing a blog post about. So here are my Spring Blooms. Day 1: Blossom…
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In the previous post I shared my urban sketching adventures around Shanghai. I thought there was too much to share on that post so I decided to do a part 2 but this time focusing on the other type of creative stuff that I was able to get done. Starting off with a big highlight from our holiday is the exhibit called “Beyond the Streets” which we were fortunate to see before it ended. I thought it was a really cool exhibit about graffiti, how it became an art form and all the different artists who started off as graffiti artists before they became well-known. And the best part? My…
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The 2024 ARTIST ALMANAC: ONE (1) part calendar + ONE (1) part inspiration = a whole LOT of collage material. 18 talented artists bring you 365 days of collageable artsy bits of paper.
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So great to be back into painting with watercolours are spending lots of time with other medium in my art journal. I joined Ohn Mar Win (@ohn_mar_win) and Clare Therese (@claretheresegray) on Instagram with their #7DaysofAutumnFlowers. I used a Fabriano Leporello Accordion Journal because of the size and I wanted to try this format of journal again. My watercolours are a mixed of Daniel Smith, Schmincke and Holbein. Finally, I decided to purchase a couple of local brands of watercolour brushes to see how they are against the international brands. Honestly, I am loving them! In the photo below (in the foreground) you will see 2 types of mop brushes…
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Time… where did it all go? Last year’s Messy May, we were house-bound due to COVID lockdown in Shanghai. We were on our second month then and creating my pages in a mini outdated diary was the one of the things that was keeping my mind busy. This year’s Messy May crept up on me and fortunately I had an empty mini bound journal I made for Wanderlust. I found it was a fantastic size to work on. If you are following me on Instagram, you would have seen these. I’m sharing some of my favourite pages from this challenge. And you can check out the flip-thru of the entire…
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It’s time to book your spot at next year’s Wanderlust! The team of Teachers for Wanderlust 2024 has been announced, and I am thrilled to tell you that I am one of them; my second year. Wanderlust 2024 is 49 mixed-media lessons, all downloadable and yours to keep forever. Plus handouts, a creative community, and a whole bunch of bonuses which are available as soon as you sign up. All this for only $99 US (making each lesson only $2!). It starts on the 5th of January, but it’s worth signing up now as we have this special price only for the first 2,000 Adventurers. Head to the website to…
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Mark your calendars – 1-3 September!!! I’m super excited to be a part of the big FREE Wanderlust Live event this year, to bring you a rounded taste of what’s in store on Everything Art’s big year long course in mixed-media art journaling: Wanderlust 2024. Join me and an exciting line up of Wanderlust 2024 teachers for 19 live streams, plus interviews, inspirational videos and more in this brilliant 3-day event. Everyone is welcome! We’d LOVE to see you there! Join me LIVE as I share with you how I use tags as instant focal point in my art journal. I’ve used this simple element in my art journal and wanted…
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The past few weeks have been humbling and overwhelming to say the least. Seeing a lot of posts and feedback from students about the class I did for Everything Art UK’s Wanderlust 2023 was so amazing. So many emotions going through me as I see each and everyone’s art journal pages. So I am dedicating this post to my students’ work. Click on an image for a bigger view and the name of the artist. What is shown here is just a few of the amazing work from students. I’m truly inspired by all these different take on the lessons.
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What can I say? December turned out so completely different from what I had envisioned to be and what I had hoped it to be. Things that were part of our everyday almost since 2020 like scanning QR codes, PCR testing at least every 72 hrs, checking of green codes in public places and other restrictions, were suddenly lifted. Suddenly, the COVID virus spread like wildfire and once again, Shanghai buckled down from COVID infections, everything (at least almost everything) went upside down fast. I was feeling like another lockdown (like what happened in March/April of 2022) was happening as the city suddenly went silent by mid-December. Schools had already…
Documenting life in Shanghai
