I remember the first time I discovered watercolours. I was in middle school, and one of my classmates got a tin set of camel watercolours. I remember being fascinated with how the paints got activated the moment the water from…
This year is my first year in business. When I sat down to plan my year- which creative projects I want to work on and when I want to launch them- I decided to be a keen observer of my…
One of my biggest challenges in running a creative business has been being productive while working from my bedroom studio. After talking to my artist friends, I realised that this is something most artists/ business owners who are working from…
While I started transitioning from working as an employee to becoming my own boss in the latter half of last year, I realised how my focus slowly shifted from creating art to building a business. And it left me feeling…
I recently watched a postgame interview of Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo, a Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association, wherein he was asked if the team’s season was a failure since it was knocked…
The biggest perk of being your own boss is that you get to prioritise yourself, your health and your well-being! You are building a business to support the life that you want to live, so you get to create a…
For this first month of my 15-day art challenge, I wanted to explore a new medium- acrylics. I coupled that with my desire to get better at my abstract compositions, and the idea to create acrylic abstracts for this month…
It is time you take up space, claim your innate gifts, and unapologetically share them with the world! In this blog post I will share what I mean by innate gifts, how you can find your way back to yours,…
The block experienced at the time of using good quality, professional-grade, expensive art supplies points toward a deeper belief we hold about ourselves- “I am not worthy”. Art supplies are meant to create art. Good art, bad art, pretty art,…
As I prepare to offer my first body of work, I become cognizant of why it took me 6 months to put a price on my art and make it available for purchase. While there were some very real roadblocks…