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Art commission – baby-wearing yoga teacher Flying Feathers.
“Love and connectedness creates magic.”I created this art commission based on my clients vision for a watercolour illustration of a baby-wearing mum doing yoga. She would use this to promote her postnatal, baby-wearing yoga workshops. Kirsty business Flying Feathers Family is all about connecting to family and nature, so it was important to her that…
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My 5 reasons to add more colour to your life!
I’ve spent my whole life working with colour without ever truly appreciating it’s power until recently. When circumstances force you to start taking positive steps in your life you learn so much about things you have taken for granted. When times have been hard both emotionally and physically your creativity can take a backseat, or be completely…
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What are the magical properties of colour and how can it help our emotional state?
For many years I’ve been interested in alternative therapies and ‘hippy dippy – smells and bells’ stuff as we call it affectionately in my household. We know colour affects our moods, we choose the colour of our home decor accordingly. It’s a matter of personal taste to some extent but research has shown that a…
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How generosity and kindness sent my Acupuncture Art to the USA
Sometimes a stranger will get in touch and make you smile with their generosity. Travis Spire-Sweet produces YinYang Podcast, a podcast for acupuncturists, he got in touch when he saw my Acupuncture blog post and illustration a few months back and featured my work! I was amazed that a professional acupuncturist would like my little…
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10 Tips for mental health as a creative person
We creative souls are a fragile bunch, you only have look through history to see that it doesn’t take a lot to make us snap. On a serious note though it’s not difficult too see that creative souls are often tortured souls, with anxiety, depression and other mental illness quite commonplace amongst us, with our…
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Motherhood and re-opening for business as Charlotte Thomson Creative Studio.
We welcomed our baby boy into the world in March 2016, this marked the beginning of a long break from freelance life for me but 5 years on and in the middle of a global Pandemic I took the decision to follow my dream to return to full time self employment. Re-opening as Charlotte Thomson…
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My Weekend at the Robin Hood Tattoo Festival Nottingham
I love tattoos and now finally Nottingham has it’s own tattoo festival! Hosted by the incredibly talented and well respected folks at Rampant Ink in Netherfield, the Robin Hood Tattoo Festival was by far the friendliest and best organised event I have ever had the pleasure to attend. There were incredible tattoo artists from…
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My experience as Live Scribe at the Blogcademy London
A ‘live scribe’ is a visual note taker. Where a topic is discussed at an event I create my own unique, hand drawn interpretation of that idea or sound bite. When live scribing you don’t draw what you see, you draw what you hear! Last weekend I was super lucky to be invited to…
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Inspired by my travels to …Romania
We recently went on a family trip to Romania, I have a Romanian sister in law so we went to visit her family and attended the religious ceremony wedding of her and my brother in law in the town where she grew up.
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Inspired by my travels to … Sorrento
I’ve always been very inspired by travel and exploring different cultures and the imagery and mood of a country. In early May we visited Italy for the first time, the occasion was my Dads 60th birthday so we visited Sorrento, with the intention of fulfilling his (and one of my) lifelong dreams of visiting…
