Tutorials for creatives

A collection of blog posts with various tutorials for creatives

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Beyond blooms: is Ikebana restricted to flowers only?

Are you familiar with the Japanese art form of arranging flowers in a vase and wondering whether Ikebana is restricted to flowers only? There are many offshoots of this beautiful art form where the aesthetic principles are maintained, but non-flower elements are used instead, for example, in Ikebana with fruits and vegetables (Morimono). Ikebana without …

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Wabi sabi memory box ideas

If you’re searching for some amazing memory box ideas with a special aesthetic angle, you’ve come to the right place! Why make a memory box? As its name suggests, a memory box is a box for storing your memories of a certain event or person in the form of treasured items from the past. Storing …

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7 golden ratio examples in art and design, random aesthetic, night aesthetic, aesthetic photo, creative art, pain in art, geometric art, geometry art, fibonacci sacred geometry, love art, dark exotic art, wealth aesthetic, vibes aesthetic, clean girl aesthetic, art inspo

7 golden ratio examples in art and design

As a seashell collector with a background in engineering and medicine, it was only natural to turn to the golden ratio when I decided to make something beautiful by starting to design visual poems. If you’re not familiar with the golden ratio, this blog post will tell you what it is, how to use the …

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2 functional decor ideas with golden ratio art printed in stone

Do you like visual art, do you like the durability of stone as a material, but you also expect some functionality before you buy something for yourself or as a gift? Then you are going to like the following functional decor ideas with golden ratio art printed in stone!

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12 types of seashells I used to create coastal wall art & decor you may not have heard of

Are you looking for unique and golden ratio based coastal wall art & decor? Then check out these 12 types of seashells I used to create floral and coastal art shaped as visual poems. Many years ago I decided to get rid of all of my print books and switch to an e-book reader. I …

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Free Vitamin Sea And The Premium Blue Space Effect

Blue spaces include any body of water such as a fountain, a hot spring, a pond, a lake, even a sea or an ocean if you live in a coastal area. Being near them for extended periods of time has several health benefits:

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2.5-year update on how I turned Japanese learning into an alternative art education

Two years and a half passed since I got back to learning Japanese after a 10-year gap during which I let the desire to speak and write fluently in this language to simmer quietly in my brain. As I wrote in the first post from this series of updates (link here), my sense of aesthetic …

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1-year update on how I turned Japanese learning into an alternative art education

It’s been more than a year since I first took Japanese learning seriously and I’m amazed that I haven’t given up. I’m not fluent yet but I understand it better and better and I think I’ll publish 1-year updates on my progress in learning this difficult language. I’m now somewhere between an absolute beginner and …

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How I turned Japanese learning into an alternative art education

Two months ago I took one my dreams seriously. It happened while doing sketches for the seashell art photobook project when I realized how influenced I am by the Japanese aesthetics. I’ve been interested in Japanese arts and crafts for years but since I couldn’t read, write or speak Japanese this was always a second-hand …

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