5 ways to achieve your creative goals
It’s a new year and the month of January is coming to an end. How about that? Have you set your creative goals for 2016? Like most of us you may have started the year by reflecting on the year ahead. You may have even mentioned to friends and colleagues your new...
Extract from ‘Detective Suarez’
This is an extract of my upcoming crime fiction book set in a South American city – Santiago Heat (working title) The rain brought silence. A victim’s silence. It was one of the few showers that fell on San Martin and to Detective Suarez’s dismay, it had fallen...
Sketch of the week – get some perspective
This week I got out of the house to do this sketch. It’s a little more complicated than the last couple, but I thought I would give a perspective scene a go. If you haven’t tried drawing something like a building, you might find that it’s not as hard...
Do more with your inspiration
If you’ve ever had the inspiration to start a creative project, no doubt you would have been filled with excitement and enthusiasm in the beginning. Once you started working on the painting for example you might have found yourself loosing momentum and...
Sketch of the week – Small object
When we think of sketching we think about places and scenes, but drawing a small object like this coffee glass requires a lot of observation and careful use of lines to depict it’s shape and form. I like drawing simple things like these because it makes you...Short Fiction – ‘Castro’
Staying in Castro for a week. The town is emptier than I expect. San Martin, the main street is where the locals come to shop. But right now everything is closed, shuttered or padlocked. A department store sits nestled between a fishmonger and a grocer. Its huge glass...Read moreThe painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. – Joan Miro
