Dystopian Books are by far one of my favourite genres. They can be so thought provoking and teach us so many valuable lessons. Amongst my authors of choice we definitely have Margaret Atwood and George Orwell , whose famous novels are a must have in any comprehensive and stimulating reading list! Today I share two things to help you choose your next read: my classic dystopian books shortlist and a dystopian mind map showing the themes and interrelations between my chosen novels. Classic dystopian books Shortlist: 1984 - George Orwell The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood --> Followed by The Testaments Brave New World - Aldous Huxley --> Followed by Brave New World Revisited Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Animal Farm - George Orwell The Power - Naomi Alderman Never Let me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro The Maddaddam Trilogy - Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake The Year of the Flood Maddaddam Do you want to know how all the above books are related between each o...
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 ...
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