Inside Out Nana

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 ...

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!

Download PDF Download PDF   Hydrangeas are by far one of my favourite flowers!  I saw my first real life hydrangea when I was about 30, during a summer walk near Hamstead Heath. Its grandiose flower heads, lovely four petal flowers and breathtaking colours instantly caught my eye. I think it's amazing how after several years in London, I can still be pleasantly surprised by finding new flowers that I never got to see whi...

Colouring can be enjoyed both by adults and the younger ones! It can help reduce stress and anxiety by getting your brain into a " meditative", relaxed state , while also giving you (or your kids) an opportunity to disconnect from your phone/iPad/social media and to let your creativity flow! I'm sharing some of my free hand drawings for you to print and do some colouring, hoping to keep you and your family entertained! Notes about usage: I'm sharing these drawings for free for personal use only. I ask you to provide attribution to my work and to add a link back to this page if you want to use/repost these images elsewhere.