Hi! I’m Anna Battle, the original shiny happy artist, founder of the Shiny Happy Art Club and author of ‘Painting Party: Acrylic Painting for Beginners’. And I don’t mind a bit of colour! I’m a mum with two kids still at home and we live...
You see things differently in person than you do in a photo. Have you ever been awed by a landscape, snapped a photo to capture the memory, and then when you get home that same photo just doesn’t do your memory justice – it hasn’t captured what you remember...
How many times do you have to do a thing for it to become a habit? The book ‘Atomic Habits’ talks about ‘habit stacking’ – “One of the best ways to build a new habit is to identify a current habit you already do each day and then...
I loved receiving this question from Louise in the UK: What do you do with all the paintings! If you paint something every day for 30 days that’s a lot of art! If you’ve ever wondered the same thing, here’s my reply: Hi Louise, great question! I...
Don’t know where or how to start when it comes to art? Try a few of these ideas on for size. 1. Have Art Kits for all occasions Just like meal planning, set yourself up to succeed. My real-life art kits include watercolours, a brush, pencils and a sketchbook....
Linda and I were chatting today, about how many months I’d been doing an at-least-12 sketch Demonstration Collection (18!) and thinking up new and fun ways to entice you to join in and get that fabulous ‘I painted that!’ feeling for yourself. Our...
