Staying inspired is one of the foundations of living a creative life… and a creative life brings me so much joy! This guide shows you the things I do personally to tend to my creativity on a regular basis, sparking ideas, getting me out of artistic blocks and increasing my artistic output.
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About Susan
Welcome to my website. Being inspired and inspiring others is what I live for! I am an artist, author, creator and online art tutor. This website is a place for you to seek inspiration from my free guides and mini-courses, a place to join my 30-Day Sketchbook Challenge as well as enrol in my online art school where I teach you loads of things about sketching and creativity. Plus I have an exciting creative membership that opens for registration a few times a year.
Please feel free to email me on info@magenta-sky.com if you want to get in touch! See you soon and stay creative. Susan
FREE ebook – The Ultimate Guide to Creative Living
On the blog
Latest blog posts from Susan.
Essential Tools to Start Linocutting
As an author of two books on linocutting (Learning Linocut and Beginners Guide to Linocut), I get asked a lot about what tools are recommended...
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New Skillshare Class – How to Live a Creative Life
I am so excited to launch a brand new Skillshare Class: How to Live a Creative Life - 5 Ways to bring Inspiration Into Your...
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In The Studio with Susan – Episode 6
Hi all and I hope you are well. I have a few things to share today - a list of materials and tools I use,...
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FREE mini course – 5 Days of Creativity Boosting Exercises!
This FREE mini-course with Susan is the perfect way to boost your creativity over a 5-day period. Each day you will receive a brand new creative exercise that will help to unleash your creativity… plus a little smattering of inspiration and ideas as well. Perfect for beginners, for anyone stuck in a creative rut, for 30-day sketchbook challengers and for anyone that wants a really exciting 5-day focus on boosting creativity! Join at any time…
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"Thank you for the mini course, helped overcome my fear of using a pen for sketching. Will definitely practice everyday for the rest of the month."
"Very helpful and thought provoking."
"Thank you - I have found the course inspirational in the fact that it is getting me back into daily sketching and doodling which personally I find relaxing and it takes me to a happy place."
Drawing tutorials
Blogs about drawing, tips and inspiration.
Fashion Formula Designer of the Month
Over the past few months I’ve been working on turning a number...
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Close Your Eyes – Demonstration Video
Hi again, Time for another demo video! Yes, a free tutorial video...
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Positive Language and Sketching
In my blog post today I wanted to discuss Positive Language and Sketching...
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How to Draw a Cube – A Handy Guide for Beginners
The cube is a six-sided, three-dimensional shape that is a useful shape...
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Learn with Susan
Susan’s online courses cover a range of topics from including mindful drawing and doodling, sketching for fun, and many other craft disciplines. Learn alongside Susan through videos and exercises.
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Inspire – join the waiting list
Inspire is a celebration of all things creative and inspirational. It is a sketching membership group with Susan Yeates, designed especially for creative souls that crave ideas and plenty of arty things to do on a monthly basis. Join the membership to take part in this global creative community. Registration opens again later in 2020.
Portfolio
I am an artist and creative. I studied Fine Art, Printmaking at Loughborough University and have continued to print, draw, paint and create stuff throughout my career. My portfolio has a selection of my work...