Inside Out Nana

Nowadays we're all aware of the insane dangers of radioactivity. So, if you came across a job description asking you to " swallow small amounts of a highly toxic and radioactive substance all day long , 5 days a week", you certainly wouldn't apply, right?           As crazy as it sounds, this job used to exist! Women in the 1910s painted watch dials with a special  radium-based paint that glowed in the dark. Unknown author  / Public domain These women kept their brushes pointy by constantly licking them, without knowing that the radium they were bringing into their bodies was extremely dangerous! If you want to learn about the Radium Girls, the tragic health effects they faced and thei

It's well known that I love everything to do with flowers... but when it comes to drawing/painting, I think my eyes don't have the required talent to artistically identify shapes and colours.  Still, I told myself I wanted to draw flowers and I had to find a way to achieve this! And so I decided to take an ethical "copy-paste" approach to this: I photographed as many flowers as possible I imported my selected picture into my iPad digital drawing app: Procreate® Using my Apple Pen, I traced the outlines of my flower into a new layer and voila! The main flower was drawn! Working with different layers and techniques, I coloured in the flowers and added some extra elements to finalise my drawing. If the frontal digitally drawn hydrangea looks extremely similar to the photographed one, it's because I digitally traced the original

My Women Empowerment and Education reading list includes remarkable books with very strong, eye opening and motivational messages  from exemplary women. Some of these contain harsh  real life stories,  show both the difficulties that these women have endured, and (thankfully) the ways they've managed to pull through! I have slowly collated this list through my own readings and through recommendations from friends and colleagues (some of which I'm yet to read), with the aim to  increase everyone's awareness on the importance of Women Empowerment.  I hope you find these books as encouraging and empowering as I did!  And if you have any recommendations or thoughts, do share them in the Comments section below! 1. Invisible Women -  Caroline Criado-Perez 2. Becoming -  Michelle Obama

Drawing & colouring mandalas can be such a relaxing and mind focusing activity! This time I wanted to give mandalas a bit of a twist so I decided to include an empowering message in one of them! If you want to colour these mandalas, DOWNLOAD the printable versions here. Let me know if you like them and include any feedback and suggestions for future mandalas 😀            

This time I decided to turn one of my latest watercolour paintings into a colouring sheet. Hope you enjoy it! If you have suggestions for other colouring sheets, leave me a message below!