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Patreon, Support me and my first Book

13/1/2020

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I finally make the jump. I am in Patreon now as I am embarking on the book about travel sketching I realise I need help and support to make it happen. The working title of the book is "The Slow Traveller's Sketchbook". I like this title because it is what the book is going to focus on. In a very distracted world, parents fearing their children turning into tech zombies, adults addicted to mindless scrolling and lack of sleep becoming a normal thing. I felt the way my sketchbooks and travel experience can be helpful is to write and advocate and crusade about Paying Attention. 

There is just not enough attention given to anything these days, I struggle with distraction as I am sure a lot of people do. Artists with a wandering mind and explosive creative energy knows this struggle well. 

Travel sketching is a way to help improve attention, and slow everything your mind is racing you to do and feel down to a place of clarity, and simplicity. 

So, if this is something you want to be a part of, please support my Patreon at a tier you're comfortable in. I will be super grateful and you will see me rock and roll and make the book and the E-book and everything else happen in 2020. 

Yay! 

Thank you so much,

​Susan 

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Made the Sunday Papers

2/1/2020

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Hey, that's me, looking really serious and involved in teaching travel sketching in the Tekka Market food court. The article was published in Straits Times, Sunday Times, Life section on 29th of December, 2019. Just in time to put a check mark on 'making the papers' as one more accomplishments before the decade ends. Sor Fern, was supposed to try out just the first two sessions of this short course courtesy of LaSalle College of the Arts but ended up doing the whole 8 sessions. I am pleased that she got so into it she bought her own sketchbook and watercolour set after the first class. 

Yes, I travel sketch for fun, and also for something more serious. What's that you ask? 

It might sound reaching, but I want to make some kind of difference in how people see the world, one bad and runny sketch at a time. Like Sor Fern, who is such a diligent students even when she's on a writing project, drawing with pen and watercolour insists on experiencing mistakes, and no going back on it. It's something I challenge myself daily and developed a strong muscle for drawing mistakes and mishaps. You don't have to like all your work, but you do have to like you as the person making the work, no matter if the work is good or bad. 

I am so grateful that most of my students gets this, a ridiculously obvious advice, yet so so hard to do. 

Welcome to my world. 

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