CREATIVITY NEWS FOR CURIOUS MINDS
The Curious Observations of Poly Moone
A Creative Thinking Blog by me, Sarah Jane Vickery.
Here you will find cartoon giggles, colouring challenges, video tutorials, FREE exercises, plus new discoveries, workshops and tools – everything you need to Get Creative!
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...
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...
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...
Why are so many Adults taking up Colouring?
This Friday I’ll be at Sunrise Senior Living in Peasmarsh for Colour Club. Why are so many adults going back to colouring?! Colouring is for kids right? Or is it? The simple act of colouring has been gaining such popularity over...
Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary Workshop 20th June – FREE Art of Wellbeing Experience
Do you need a little me-time? Would you like to unwind and feel more creative? I’m giving a free talk at Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary in Shere next Thursday 20th June 2 - 4pm. Join me for a unique, fun and inspiring workshop that offers an artistic alternative to...
How does being Creative decrease Stress and Anxiety? It’s all about focus!
“I can’t believe how quiet the children were!” - the feedback I got after teaching Cartoon Club at The Yard Market. I hear this comment so often. And it’s not just when teaching children, it happens in my adult colouring classes too. We all start out chatty and by the...
Colouring as Self-care for Adults – Sunrise Senior Living Workshop
Did you love to colour as a child? Didn’t we all! Colouring is not just for children. As an activity for adults, colouring is becoming ever more popular and for good reason. It has some surprisingly profound health benefits. Did you know that colouring can help you to...
How can Colouring be like a vacation for your Brain?
I’m genuinely surprised at how relaxing it is to colour. I sit down for my ten minute colouring break and next thing I know it’s been half an hour or more! I completely relax and loose track of time. The same thing happens in the colouring classes I teach at Cafe Mila...
Can a Colouring Book, and specifically what illustration I colour, help me decrease stress and anxiety?
Did you colour as a child? How about as an adult?! Not so common. Despite how ubiquitous it was in childhood, adult colouring is a very new hobby that has gained in popularity dramatically just this decade. Believe it or the first research on using colouring as...
How to maintain a Growth Mindset when Doubts creep in?
I was listening to Rich Roll and he was discussing the concept of growth mindset with Tom Bilyeu. Tom believed from a young age that his talents were not fixed. He could become skilled at anything that he set his mind to and worked at. I think this is true - I just...
A Cartoon Blog for creative souls
Meet Poly Moone. A cartoon by me, Sarah Jane Vickery
I created Poly Moone as a fun way to blog about the new thoughts and tools I uncover in the world of creative thinking. Poly delves into every topic from habit change to mindset, from colouring to confidence, from doodling to wellbeing. A multitude of surprising and funny findings to help you become your most creative self. But be warned! It’s in the nature of finding answers, that she will present you with many, many questions!