Frottage: Exploring the world through texture
Mary-Helen Daly Mary-Helen Daly

Frottage: Exploring the world through texture

Explore the World Through Texture: A Guided Frottage Journey
What stories live in the textures we overlook every day? In this blog, I invite you into the playful, meditative world of frottage — a technique that reveals the unseen patterns around us. With guided videos you'll explore how rubbing surfaces can become a form of mindful mark-making, intuitive storytelling, and sensory discovery. Perfect for beginners, or anyone craving a moment of connection with their environment without overthinking it. Let your pencil lead the way.

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Letting Go Through Watercolour: A Playful Series for Creativity & Calm
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Letting Go Through Watercolour: A Playful Series for Creativity & Calm

Discover the joy of watercolour painting with this 6-week YouTube series, perfect for beginners and anyone seeking a mindful, therapeutic art practice. Learn essential techniques like wet-on-wet, resist methods, salt textures, gradients, and mindful mark-making—all designed to help you let go of perfectionism and embrace creative flow. Subscribe now to get each video drip-fed weekly and start your journey into effortless, expressive painting.

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Crafting Recycled Paper Bag Journals
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Crafting Recycled Paper Bag Journals

Learn how to transform recycled paper shopping bags into unique, handmade journals with this step-by-step guide. Discover simple ways to construct your journal, creative ways to personalize, and tips for working with textured, upcycled paper. Embrace sustainable art-making while exploring mixed media, spontaneous mark-making, and watercolor play. Perfect for beginners, journal lovers, and eco-conscious creatives!

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How to Create a Digital Vision Board Using Canva
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How to Create a Digital Vision Board Using Canva

Images have the power to represent and connect us with our most inner desires. Vision boards are a creative tool that can help clarify our vision. It’s not just about setting a goal, its about using imagery to deepen our understanding and purpose for setting a goal in the first place. It gives our desires shape, colour, form and helps connect our goals in an emotional way to inspire taking actions towards it. This blog takes you step by step through creating a vision board in canva.

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Creating a Vision Board: bring your vision to life
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Creating a Vision Board: bring your vision to life

Visualise new possibilities, engage your senses, and make space for new ways of being with Vision boards! Whether you’re focusing on personal growth, career aspirations, or a feeling you want to cultivate, your vision board can serve as a daily reminder of what truly matters. This blog include steps to create a meaningful vision board and simple ways to stay connected to your vision throughout the year.

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Tending to Self Care using Spontaneity
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Tending to Self Care using Spontaneity

Embrace self-care this December with a free self-care calendar designed to inspire fun, creativity, and spontaneity. Discover small actions that nurture joy and balance during the busy holiday season.

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Getting Started with Altered Books
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Getting Started with Altered Books

Learn how to transform old books into unique works of art using mixed media techniques like collage, painting, and embellishments. Whether you're an experienced artist or just starting out, this blog will provide you with creative tips and ideas to repurpose books into personalized masterpieces. Need info on materials, techniques and inspiration? This blog covers the basics to get you started.

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Creative prompt for exploring colour
Mary-Helen Daly Mary-Helen Daly

Creative prompt for exploring colour

Creative prompts are such a wonderful jumping off point for art making. Here’s a creative prompt I created for exploring colours. In this blog I share fun and accessible creative prompt sure to soothe and inspire your senses!

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Altered Books &  Art Therapy
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Altered Books & Art Therapy

Through the lens of art therapy altered books can be incredibly powerful as we are now working with the idea of changing the stories that were previously fixed.

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