Discover how to break free from art block and ignite your creativity. Overcome the rut and fuel your inspiration through new experiences.

Discover the unconventional path to becoming an artist. Learn how to navigate obstacles, embrace adulthood, and reignite your creative spark

In this post, you will learn how estrogen deficiency affects mental health and how to find ways to cope and heal.

This post talks about taking a break from social media to focus on making art and self-care.

This post gives you an insight into my daily routine as a work-at-home illustrator of children’s books and what drives me to keep on going.

This post talks about how taking a break from making art or creative work prevents burnout and boosts productivity.

This is a virtual speech I delivered recently at my former high school during the Career Fair 2022 with the theme, Design Your Success.

How to succeed in life after art school? Read through the speech I gave to graduating students to give them a glimpse into possible futures.

For the month of February let us talk about why loving ourselves more would help us be more creative and productive.

This post is about my return to Germany, my European romance, accomplishing my goals and setting out for the next adventure.

This post is about how I landed a representation, why I need an agent to navigate the publishing world and most importantly about hope.

The health of our brains and our overall well-being is our best ally to continue making art.

According to Elizabeth Gilbert, ideas are magical sentient energies that float amongst us living beings.

So my plants were my constant companions—always silent and ever so resilient.

From then on, after being diagnosed of cancer of the uterus... I took even more care of myself.

This piece is a metaphor to my life as an expat stuck in foreign affairs bureaucracy in this time of uncertainty.

What do you do when uninspired or just really out of your system? What if it’s a rainy day or on a tight deadline and no idea is coming? Blue and Blah As a creative who is also always present in social media, it seems as though you are in constant cloud nine churning creative thoughts and brilliant ideas. In reality there are days that are just blue and simply blah. Nothing is coming and you know that the clock is ticking. Deadlines do not help at all. It sounds very indulgen

What I cannot reconcile when making art is the middleground between realism and abstraction. Although the initial idea of an artwork is a stylized rendition, I still end up adding more details. That I find quite difficult to change or is it more natural to paint more realistically? Each time I become nitty-gritty, I stop but the end result felt half-baked. How do I challenge myself to be more loose in my style? No Straight Lines Recently, I started painting directly on the pa

Germany is my second home as well as my gateway to all things European. I've always had this affinity to European culture and history. Follow me as I write about how living in Germany has opened my eyes to a bigger world and how it has brought spark again to my creative passions. Inspired by the German landscape viewed from a hot air balloon. "Up in the Air" | Mixed Media | 2019 A Ride of My Life While riding my practically antique second-hand bicycle on my way to my German l

Are you on a quest to dig deeper into your personality? As normal human beings with minds and hearts of our own we tend to overthink and over feel matters. And if you are an artist, you probably tend to go to extremes in exploring the depths of your soul and other people's in the hopes of getting inspired or finding your own style—your brand. "Flower Head" | Watercolor and Gouache | 2019 Dig Deeper Have you ever answered those BuzzFeed personality quizzes or any Internet pop