Turn Your Vacation into a Creative Retreat

Taking a vacation this summer? Why not turn it into a creative retreat too? It is so easy to do.

Just go to your nearest art, craft, or stationery store and pick up a watercolour sketchbook (such as a Moleskine one). While you're there buy some watercolour paints. You don't have to get anything fancy. A child's paintbox will do.

Also get a water brush that holds water in the handle. They're amazing and fun. Here is what I took on my holiday to the lake.

I bought this plastic paint box a few years ago and squeezed watercolours from tubes into the pans and allowed them to set.

Whiling away the afternoon at a coffee shop, I made this little sketch of a woman eating a brownie. It took about ten minutes to draw and paint.

Don't let your fear of not doing perfect work keep you from being creative.

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