BE CURIOUS. GET CREATIVE. PRACTICE CHANGE.
Are you ready to Get Creative?
Here you will find books, workshops and tutoring from me, Sarah Jane Vickery, so you can cartoon, colour and journal your way to your most Creative self!
Can you spark your creativity? Yes!
Tools for Curious Minds
One-to-One Art Tutor & Creativity Coach
Experience how cartooning, colouring and journaling can develop your creativity and build a calm, clear and confident mindset.
Cartoon Club for Kids
Is your child always doodling? Do they love to create cartoons? Then this is for them! After school classes, Half-term workshops and tutoring to help children gain creative confidence and have fun!
Colouring Books & Workbooks
This is where curious minds put pen to paper! You will experience the power of mindful colouring and creative journaling to de-stress and building a growth mindset.
Doodle Colour & Cartoon Workshops
Adults… spark your creativity and enjoy a squiggly journey through the mind-body puzzle. Slow down, unplug, and relax as you doodle, colour and cartoon your pay to a more mindful you.
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How can I get started? With Freebies, Workshops & Books of course!
NEW COLOURING BOOK
Veronica’s Garden
A Colouring Book to inspire Curiosity, Courage & Friendship
Pictures tell a tale of ageless exploration, of the struggles we all have to be happy and find purpose. A place that inspires a new perspective – captured for you to colour. Step through the gate and see what you discover in Veronica’s Garden.
BUILD CREATIVE CONFIDENCE
Does your child love to doodle cartoons? This is for them!
Cartoon Club for Kids was set up by me with the aim of helping more children to explore their creativity, sharing a love of cartooning, build a growth mindset – and of course, have fun!
You’ll find classes in Godalming and Cranleigh, in schools around Surrey plus half-term workshops.
How can I gain Creative Skills? With Art Tuition & Creativity Coaching!
By connecting wellbeing research with creative tools and through fun, practical exercises, I have designed an empowering coaching approach to develop your creative skillset. Using cartooning, colouring and journaling I help both adults and children alike to build the creative confidence to solve problems and make happy change happen.
A Cartoon Blog for CREATIVE & CURIOUS MINDS
Meet Poly Moone. A cartoon by me, Sarah Jane Vickery
I created Poly Moone as a fun way to explore creativity and a healthy mindset. Poly delves into topics from colouring to confidence, from habit change to helping others, from relaxation to relationships. In her blog she shares a multitude of tools and funny findings that just might help you on your road to wellbeing. But be warned! It’s in the nature of finding answers, that she will present you with many, many questions!
The Blog of Curious Observations
Flip Through Part 2: of Veronica’s Garden | See how I’m colouring my book
Who wants to see how I’ve coloured Veronica’s Garden so far? I’ve just posted up a new flip through video 2 on my YouTube channel so you can see how it is looking coloured so far. I tell you a bit about the story, the illustrations, and all the freebies you can get to...
Tutorial 5: How to Colour a Background | FREE PDF Real-Time Colour along | Veronica’s Garden
How do you choose a background colour? I’ve always found this challenging mostly because I’m afraid of ‘ruining' a picture I’ve otherwise finished and really like. Here I show you how I choose a background for this image from Veronica’s Garden. This is not an easy...
Tutorial 4: How to Fix a Boring Picture | FREE PDF Real-Time Colour along | Veronica’s Garden
What do you do when you are halfway through colouring a picture and you aren’t happy with it? Don’t throw it in the bin just yet! I’ve posted a new YouTube Tutorial 4, where I show you what I do to bring this picture back to life using unusual colours. In this...
Tutorial 3: How to Layer Pencil Crayon | FREE PDF Real-Time Colour along with Foxy from Veronica’s Garden
I love to layer my pencil crayon to create really deep, unique and interesting colours. I’ve always done a lot of layering, whatever my media, because I love the results it produces. I think it’s especially fun to do with pencil crayon. I’ve posted a new...
Tutorial 2: The 4 – Colour Challenge | FREE PDF Real-Time Colour along from Veronica’s Garden
I’m giving myself a creative challenge this week: colouring an image with just four randomly selected pencil crayons - and I must say they were not the easiest colours to work with! Here I talk you through the thought process I use to work with a limited...
Tutorial 1: How to Creatively choose a Colour Palette from scratch – Colouring a Winter scene in pencil crayon
Have you ever wondered how to choose a colour palette? Do you ever struggle with how to start colouring a new picture? Here I talk you through the thought process I use to select colours in a fun and experimental way. In this example, I colour a winter scene from one...
Win a FREE e-book! Worldwide Contest – Join in!
This contest is worldwide so it is open to everyone. I have a chance for you to win a FREE PDF e-book of my new colouring book Veronica’s Garden! All you have to do is: Join the Instagram group Colouring Sensations Worldwide Like my Instagram @sjvickery and Facebook...
UK CONTEST Alert! Win a FREE copy of my new colouring book Veronica’s Garden
I have a chance for you to win a FREE copy of my new colouring book Veronica’s Garden! To enter all you have to do is: Join the FB group Lost in Colouring UK Like my Facebook page Sarah Jane Vickery Art Colour this illustration, which is the front cover of my...
Overcoming Creative blocks: How taking my own advice helped my Colouring Journey
I like the way my “this-book-belongs-to” page is turning out which is so funny because it was a complete accident that I drew this image at all. I was making myself super stressed out when I was half way through illustrating Veronica’s Garden. I wasn’t making any...
GET CREATIVE
Can you create a better story?
Yes! With… A New Tale of Me
Here you will find fun and creative, squiggly and intriguing exercises to get you thinking mindfully and journaling with joy.
This is an ageless exploration, for anyone who enjoys pondering fundamental questions, developing their creativity and gaining insights into their own life.
Grab your pen! Get your colours! Doodle away and recapture the joyous power of journaling.
CAPTURE YOUR ART OF WELLBEING
Doodle, Colour & Cartoon Workshops
You won’t have seen workshops like this before! It combines creativity with a wellbeing perspective for a uniquely restorative experience.
Classes are developed from The Art of Wellbeing workbooks and colouring books and include cartooning for self-expression, colouring for relaxation and doodling for mindfulness. Get ready to Be Curious, Get Creative and Practice Change.