26/02/2025
🎨 Have you ever heard the phrase “Fill your well”?
🧠 I first came across this idea in Julia Cameron’s ‘The Artist’s Way’. The concept is simple: as artists, we constantly draw from our “inner well”—a reservoir of creativity.
😣 But if you keep pulling from it without refilling, your motivation and ideas eventually dry up, leaving you feeling drained.
👩🎨 When that happens, it’s time to step back and fill the well—take a break, do something different, or immerse yourself in art.
🖼️ Lately, I’ve been doing just that. Here are some images of cool things I’ve come across that WOWed and inspired me. One of them was a cyanotype book of alge—technically the FIRST photography book ever created! How cool is that?!
🕰️ Also, here’s a fun fact: Did you know there’s a clock museum in London? ⏳ I had some time to kill (pun intended) and decided to check it out. Some of the clocks date back to 1625—insane, right?! Such beautiful little devices.
🤔 What do you do when you need to recharge creatively?
1. 💜 Photo of an anenome flower I captured the other week.
2. I loved the colour combo of these books.
3. This painting by Dorothea Tanning is one of my favourites.
4. At the Natural History Museum Library. It’s hard to spot me amongst the books, but I’m there!
5. This clock is from 1625 😱
6. Lettering made with Alge, cyanotype
7. Alge cyanotype
8. Painting by Pierre Roy
9. Very inspired by the lettering in this old book
10. more cool lettering
11. Inside of a clock
12. Wall of clocks!
13. ‘Opticks’ published in 1704. In this book, Isaac Newton revealed that white light is made up of a spectrum of different colours. Consider this post an official ‘Thank you’ from me to Isaac Newton for this discovery because as someone who loves learning about lighting, his findings have significantly impacted my life in the best way.
14. Close-up of the eye illustration in ‘Opticks’
15. Tiny clock! 10mm wide 🤗
