by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jun 7, 2019 | Get Creative, Mindful Colouring
“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 Sarah Jane Vickery | Apr 3, 2019 | Get Creative, Mindful Colouring, Popular Posts
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...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Mar 20, 2019 | Get Creative, Mindful Colouring
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...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Mar 5, 2019 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
Your first idea is rarely your best. This is what my professor from design school used to say to use all the time. At first I found it rather frustrating when I had worked on what I thought was a great concept or design, and he’d tell me to re-evaluate my...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Feb 19, 2019 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
I’m on the topic of overwhelm still. I really like this analogy. It helps me to picture breaking down a problem into smaller bite size pieces when I feel overwhelmed. It feels just like this when we have a big snow storm in Canada. I never have this problem...
