This is a painting of a friend, Vera. She kindly allowed me to use one of her photos from Facebook.as material for portrait practice. I did more than 15 drawings and 11 watercolour portraits from that photo. And they are all completely different. In terms of likeness, some are better than others but even [...]
I have a presentation called "Your Life in Light and Colour". In this presentation I use the painting of a watercolour as a metaphor for life, or at least life in business. This has been well received and now I have decided to take it forward as an offer. I am rewriting the material [...]
This was a presentation to draw business lessons from watercolour. I painted a watercolour and talked through ten points on which to reflect in business. […]
Facts do not drive change, emotions drive change. As a consultant and coach I help leaders and their teams with the conversations that lead to clear strategies and plans. As a watercolourist I continually come across similarities between the principles governing the creation of successful watercolours and perspectives leading to effective teams. In this presentation [...]
After my last post on this blog in 2008 I put down my coaching and facilitation tools, cleaned and loaded my palette, soaked my brushes and painted. (I never stretch paper). It felt so good to do watercolours again. Somehow I need to make time to sit and paint. But that is for another discussion. I want [...]