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!
The Value of Play! … and Cartoon Club the Game
Do you think you're too old to play? That's certainly something I felt for ages. Having fun and playing was always very low on my priority list. Actually, I'm not sure it was even on my priority list for years. That started to change for me when I went back to school...
My Top 8 picks for Art supplies for cartooning – What I draw with in Cartoon Club
Who doesn’t like getting new art supplies?! I love browsing in the art shop. I get a lot of questions about what I recommend in the way of supplies for Cartoon Club. So here goes a little list of my favourite supplies. There are in fact more than eight listed but...
WIN a FREE Cartoon Club for Kids online art class, Sketchbook, Pen, Pencil set from Pullingers Art Shop!
Enter to WIN!! Does your child love to colour? Do they like to doodle cartoons? This is for them!. I’m partnered with Pullinger’s Art Shop to give your child a chance to win a FREE Cartoon Club online class and a FREE sketchbook, pencil, Faber-Castell Pen set to get...
Colouring Tutorial 6 – How to blend a sky using Faber-Castell Polychromos – FREE PDF Veronica’s Garden
Here’s a NEW colouring tutorial for everyone who wants to learn to blend and layer colours. Fun stuff! I’m using my Faber-Castell Polychromos for this tutorial because of their superior pigment and blending ability. I just LOVE these pencils! You don’t need to use...
Cartooning for Dyslexia Awareness Week 2020 – Get Creative with your own Dream Studio
Next week is Dyslexia Awareness Week 2020. Hurray! I am quite excited to be working with the charity Helen Arkell and Succeed With Dyslexia to offer and their members a chance to do online Cartoon Club class with me. This year the theme for Dyslexia Awareness Week...
Cartoon Robots, Ice cream and Constructing a more Creative Brain
How I challenge myself to construct a more Creative Brain? Each Sunday when I sit down to plan out the week’s lesson for my online art classes, I always feel a bit stumped. I like to think that planning Cartoon Club for Kids will get easier - that I get better and...
How to turn a Stick Figure drawing into a Cartoon Character
So you say you can’t draw anything better than a Stick Figure? Is that true?… This blog post is for all you adults out there who say they can’t draw. How often do I hear “I can only draw a stick figure”. I’ve got a better question for you; have you ever met a child...
4 Steps to choosing a great Subject to Draw or Cartoon
How much impact does your subject have on what you create? Is your topic really the most important part of your drawing? Hmmm.. let’s investigate. I’m often asked how I come up with topics each week for Cartoon Club and my online art classes with the kids and adults....
How to draw your own Comic Strip – Learning to think creatively in the modern age of Knowledge
Have you ever wanted to draw your own comic strip but didn’t know where to begin? Here’s how to doodle your very own cartoon story. I’m always on the lookout for little snippets that will inspire the art lesson in my online cartoon classes with the kids and adults. I...
How drawing together brings creative thoughts alive – what bees teach us through The Happenin’ Hive
Why is cartooning bees be so creatively inspiring? This past week I had the pleasure giving a workshop to some children through a department of the Government of Ontario. Our topic this time was The Happenin’ Hive. I've told this workshop before and it's always been...
Permission to PLAY! How to produce your most creative drawings – Lessons from a Monster Cartoon
When do you produce your best creative work? This week at Cartoon Club for Kids and Discover Your Inner Cartoonist we you were transported into a sound studio for our online art classes. Actually it was a monster cartoon character who was at the controls but hey who’s...
How to make a shy child more Confident – learn to Doodle a cartoon Dragon
How can cartooning help a shy child feel more confident? It probably doesn’t surprise you that one of my most popular online art classes with the kids is DRAGONS! Who doesn’t find these mythical beasts to be a fun subject. They are perfect for sparking the imagination...
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!