The the art supplies I consistently use when creating my Copic Marker food illustrations (and they’re great for all alcohol based marker illustrations!)
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100 Days of Food Illustration
My 100 Day food illustration project – from A to Z!
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5 Tips for Undertaking a Daily Creativity Challenge
Starting a daily creativity challenge can help you grow so much as an artist or creative as well as help you kick start your creative juices. Here’s some tips to help you get underway with your daily creativity challenge.
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My Top Podcasts For Creatives
These 7 podcasts for creatives will help motivate and inspire you with your creative journey or your creative business (and you may learn a few things too!)
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Colour Diaries: 5 Ways To Add Vibrant Colour To Your Wardrobe
5 quick and easy ways to add a pop of bold and vibrant colour to your wardrobe.
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28 Days of Creating Heart Art with #OpusDailyPractice
Just dropping in with a quick note to let you all know that I’m taking part in another creating challenge! This one is 28 days of creating with #OpusDailyPractice, running through the month of February. Opus is a local BC chain of art supply stores where I get most of my supplies. This is not a sponsored post – it’s just where I shop. I
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My Word For 2017: Colour
Do you do a “word of the year” where you choose a word that you hope will be the guide for your coming year? Last year I chose minimize – I wanted to minimize my life and do more of less. I did start posting monthly updates but then fell off the wagon with that but, I didn’t fall of the minimize path. I carried
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Hello… It’s Me
Well… hello there. Do you remember me? My name is Melissa. And I write (occasionally) in this little space. I swear to God I thought my last update was in September so I was shocked to see it was actually August. That made me feel even worse about being so neglectful. The truth is, I just didn’t feel like writing. My brain didn’t want to
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Inside My Studio: 100 Day Project 2016 Is In The Books
I wrapped up the 2016 edition of The 100 Day Project at the end of July and, just like last year, it was a terrific experience that served to remind me of many of the lessons I learned in 2015. I didn’t blog about it much here because, let’s be frank, I haven’t blogged much about anything this year – although I am trying to be consistent
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Inside My Studio: The Art of Repetition and Practice
Has everyone heard of the 10,000 Hour Rule by now? It was put forward by author Malcolm Gladwell with the reasoning behind it being that in order to become really really good at what you do, you need to put in 10,000 hours of actually doing it. Yeah. Being gifted has nothing to do with it. You actually have to get off your butt and
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