Ever started a watercolour class and found it began with loads of boring drills and practice exercises and took FOREVER to get to the fun of creating an actual painting?

Perhaps it’s time to fast track your watercolour adventure by NOT doing this.

Because yes, there is another way to learn, I believe.

A trip to the beach - in real life or vicariously through paint is enough to give one a bit of perspective on busy life. Take up a paintbrush and paint away your cares…

Are you looking for an easy way to brighten up your sketchbook and quite probably your day?

Let me suggest adding a little coloured ink to your drawing and painting repertoire.

Shall we dig into the hows and whys of coloured ink?

If there’s one thing that’s bound to lift your mood when you are feeling a bit down, it’s painting a rooster. Come and find out how to paint a rooster in watercolour and instantly lift your mood.

See the whole series and find out more here…

With all the hustle and bustle, (wonderful though it may be) it is the time of year when one is more in need of a little quiet creative respite than ever. Am I right?

So what I want from my painting is utter simplicity. If you can relate, this might just be the painting project for you too.

I have been painting hydrangeas in watercolor, this month. It has been a while since I have painted these beautiful flowers and that reminded me of a story which makes me think about why we paint …

Procrastination seems to be a natural part of the creative process, especially the very beginning.

Can creative people have too many ideas?

Here are 3 tips to help you get creatively unstuck…

Inktober is an annual art challenge that anyone with a pen and a piece of paper can enjoy. And that most definitely includes watercolour painters!

There are plenty of benefits to participating for you and your watercolour paintings.

If you think Inktober might be for you, I have a few tips and suggestions about how to design your own Inktober project and boost your watercolour skills.

We all take so very many photos these days. But what do you actually do with them all?

Here is a suggestion for that and a way to improve your overall happiness. Find out how to savour the moment, and why you might want to.

Creative block is a very familiar feeling to most creative souls. From time to time we all experience the feeling of being unable to make what it is that we usually make, even if we really want to.

So just what is creative block and how can we beat it so that we can get back to painting?

I’m so glad you asked 😉….

Painting little piglets in watercolour taught me a thing or two about attitude.

They showed me just what it might look like to approach everything with gusto, in the spirit of play!

Let me show you…

If you have been finding it hard to actually get around to doing some art regularly the 100 day project might be just what you’re looking for!

Let’s figure out how to choose the best 100 day project for you. I’ll show you what I did for my 100 day project and give you a few more ideas to try.

Ever doubt the importance of your creative hobby? 🤔

Rest assured, creative hobbies offer a range of health benefits that improve our capacity to cope with life in general.

Here’s why…

Watercolour painting needn’t be complicated - in fact sometimes it doesn’t take much more than a simple line drawing.

This comes in handy rather often, for instance…

What makes good art supplies? It’s such a loaded question. Good on what level?

Figuring out what art supplies are best can be a bit of a minefield, especially for beginners!

Do a bit of research and you are sure to find plenty of contradictory opinions. So let’s ignore those and figure out which art supplies are going to be best for you.

Do you ever doubt your own creativity?

Ever wonder if in fact you are artistic at all? Well, wonder no more, Creative Soul.

Here’s how to tell.

Children are a subject matter that calls to me so often for this very reason. There seems to be something so fitting about capturing a little of the spirit of childhood in paint.

I think that because of this reverence in which I hold the very idea of childhood, and the fact that drawing children means drawing people, it is a subject that can be as terrifying as it is attractive.

There are a lot of ‘rules’ that you hear about watercolor painting and they are just the sort of thing that can intimidate the beginner and even completely discourage them from even attempting watercolor painting. Stretching the paper is definitely at the top of this list for me.

Here’s what you need to know …

So many people have the urge to do something creative like a spot of painting…. The number of people that actually put brush to paper? Considerably less!

Why is that? What stops us painting?

Let’s figure that out so that we can beat our creative blocks and get painting!