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🎨 Concertina Sketchbook: Vancouver Seawall

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt Concertina Sketchbook: Vancouver Seawall ⠀ Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this edition of the Artzlife newsletter. There are many types of sketchbooks and I’ve spoken about a few here. This week I’m chatting about a fabulous architectural sketchbook which I've recently completed and that is a concertina sketchbook. This is not likely to be the first sketchbook...
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🎨 Artist Interview: Jules

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt Artist Interview: Jules Hi Reader, This time I have something really special for you and I was delighted to meet with and interview an exceptional artist and friend of mine, Jules, from Toronto, Canada. Jules creates a lot of portraiture alongside some still life paintings. She explores themes of universal understanding and shared experiences. Her favorite medium is...
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🎨 Neurographic Art Grid Journal Page

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt Neurographic Art Grid Journal Page Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this fortnight's edition of the Artzlife newsletter. Neurographic Art About three years ago I came across the technique of neurographic art. When you see neurographic art you'll realize that we've been doing all along, but since Pavel Piskarev coined the phrase and put it out there, it became...
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🎨 Your Perpetual Sketch Journal: A Visual Time Capsule of Your Life

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt Your Perpetual Sketch Journal A Visual Time Capsule of Your Life Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this edition of Artzlife newsletter. I'd like to thank those of you who've been here from the beginning and our new subscribers this month, I really appreciate you supporting my work. â € As someone who tends to spend a lot of time sketching and writing and making a...
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🎨 Valentine's Heart Art Journal Pages

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt Valentine's Heart Art Journal Pages Read on the web Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's edition of Artzlife. Seeing as it's Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share with you some ideas I have for using heart shapes in my grid art journal sketchbook. â € Valentine's Day Origins Having dug around and done a little research I discovered that Valentine's Day, which is celebrated...

🎨 How to Set Up a Hobby Artist's Vision Board

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt How to Set Up a Hobby Artist's Vision Board Read on the web Hi Reader, Over the years, your creative energy and passion for art will no doubt ebb and flow. Hopefully it will evolve as well. Sometimes it's hard to stay motivated. You might not have any creative aims, or if you do, you may simply not concentrate on your artistic goals. One simple yet powerful practice to...

🎨 Meet the Artist: Arwynne O'Neill

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt Artist Interview Meet the Artist: Arwynne O'Neill Read on the web Hi Reader, This week I have something really special for you. I was recently honored to meet with and interview an outstanding artist and good friend of mine, Arwynne O'Neill from Vancouver, Canada. Arwynne creates a lot of strong female figurative artwork. She explores many mythical and fantasy themes...

🎨 Meditative Art Coloring Pages

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt Meditative Art Coloring Pages Neurographic Inspired for Self-care â € Hi Reader, Welcome to this edition of Artzlife the first for 2025. I'm excited to let you know that now you can get my 52 Meditative Art Colouring Pages. neurographic inspired for self-care as an immediate download. This is my second colouring book, which is still available in physical form from...

🎨 Artzlife: African Violets: Grid Art Journal Page

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt Grid Art Journal: African Violets Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this edition of Artzlife. I going to share with you how I created an African violet grid art journal page. Earlier I had an idea about six months ago about creating some artist trading cards for my African violets. Now typically with artist trading cards you do twelve cards. It then occurred to me...

🎨 How Many Sketchbooks Do You Need as a Hobby Artist?

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by AlisonHazelArt How Many Sketchbooks Do You Need as a Hobby Artist? â € Read on the web.â € Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's Artzlife newsletter. I'd like to talk about how many sketchbooks you actually need as a hobby artist and let me be quite clear, when I started out, I didn't have even one sketchbook, but that was a few years ago. â € First Sketchbook I picked up my first sketchbook...

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