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August 16, 2023
Book Feature: LOST by Shilpa Suraj
Lieutenant Rahul Jaishankar of the Indian Navy is a man of honour, principles and commitment. His love for his family, his ethics, and his integrity is only eclipsed by his love for his country. He has no time or space to love anything or anyone else. Until the day Ayaana Sahni explodes into his...
June 15, 2023
Book Feature: IT HAUNTS THE MIND and Other Stories by Nick Roberts
From Nick Roberts, the best-selling author of The Exorcist's House and Anathema, comes fifteen dark tales that are as horrific as they are moving.Witness absolute evil in “Sally Under the Bed” and “It Haunts the Mind.” Endure vengeance and violence in “The Noose” and “The Bitter End.” Face the realities of addiction and grief in “Thanks for Sharing” and “The Weeping Wind.” Survive otherworldly monsters in “The Paperboy” and “Voodoo Bay.”In balancing the terrors of the supernatural with the horro...
May 28, 2023
The CreativeLife in review - reading, painting, and coffee
Hello Creative Friend!
This week's post is truly a mix of stuff, and I am sure that you are well aware that life happens the way it does, and all we can do sometimes is to go with the flow. I had that experience the past few weeks, and several days it was not easy to cope with. That is what coffee is for, right? We deal as best we can in the best way we can.
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I am reading Life by Julian Baggini & Antonia Macaro
Once you have developed the capacity to be stimulated by your own
thoughts, ex...
May 24, 2023
BOOK FEATURE: FLAWED by Shilpa Suraj
Aditya Khamankar was a chartered accountant who built his life on a bedrock of numbers. For no matter what happened, numbers and math never let you down. They stayed the same. And that fundamental fact defined many of his choices. He was the obedient son, the diligent student, the overachieving employee, the reliable friend. All he wanted in his life was routine and sensible discourse. All he craved in that same life...
April 30, 2023
The CreativeLife in review - BuJo, art exhibition, and water
Hello Creative friend!
This post covers about two weeks, but I am sure that you will appreciate it more for me keeping (or trying to) it short and not bore you with the minutiae.
Living in the beautiful country of South Africa does come with serious challenges these days. I am sure that my fellow countrymen and women are just as frustrated as I am with the constant problems with our power network. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that we resorted to installing a solar power system...
April 10, 2023
The CreativeLife - abstract painting #2
Hey there Creative Friend!
Today's post has some more info on the materials I have used so far plus a close-up of the painting after adding the blue layer.
Note that I purchase my materials from my local art supply stores, or online from South African art materials suppliers. Any good art materials can be used to create similar effects.
The background colours
April 9, 2023
The CreativeLife - abstract painting #1
Hey Creative Friend!
About two months ago I pulled out the last three square stretched canvasses in my stash and put them out on the table in my studio. At first I just painted the background a plain neutral grey. Then added the black and white blocks with palette knives. I liked the result but it was not yet a painting, or three.
Holding the 3 canvasses next to each otherA few weeks later, the muse tweaked my ear and the first layer of texture went down. When it was dry I was rather disappointed ...
April 7, 2023
The CreativeLife in review - books, paintings, and living with pain
Hello Creative friend!
I wrote this post over several days.
Did March really go by that fast? It was like here and then gone before I could blink. I did get a lot done, I have to say and perhaps that is the reason I didn't notice the date change. Work is slow, and that is a bit of a concern, but I do have some things to test this week, so things could be picking up again.
I cleaned my gouache palette 😂
April is difficult because we have 3 short weeks in the month. For most people that is great, and ...
February 26, 2023
The CreativeLife in review - change, art, and loadshedding
Hello creative friend!
It's been a while since I chatted with you, and of course it is my fault for not keeping to the Sunday schedule. But that is going to change. My Sundays seem to be filled with so many activities, even though I seldom plan my day that way. It also impacts my blog, which makes me sad for not getting to write it like I want to. So I am going to make a change - and experiment with a few different weekdays. It may also vary from week to week, but let's see how it goes.
My books a...
February 5, 2023
The CreativeLife in review - planning, time management, and the creative life
Hey there, creative friend!
It's been a week or more since my last post but mostly because I have been taking time to do other things. Work was a bit slow, but that will change tomorrow. More on that a bit later. I have not been working, or making art - what I have been doing is reading. Not only books on my to-read list, but also a few of my own unfinished manuscripts. I do that for the simple reason to find inspiration to work on my current novel-in-process. I feel a bit stuck.
I know the next ...
