Charles Leon
The Transformative Power of Sketching & ...

Sketching has enormous benefits for mental health and for problem solving.

The Transformative Power of Sketching & Creative Pursuits
Charles Leon
How Picasso Helped me publish my Book

There is a very famous film of Picasso painting live. About halfway through creating an effortless masterpiece he says “ Ca va tres mal” (it’s going very badly). Even someone like Picasso struggled to get a painting to go where he wanted it to go. It’s his self-belief, confidence and self-trust that allows him to work through the “bad” stage and experience that tells him that he can make it right. I’m certainly not in that league, but that helped me to understand that I should push through (although sometime you can try too hard and take a sketch too far) and trust my instinct.

How Picasso Helped me publish my Book
Charles Leon
A Cotswold Recce

I don't think many places in the UK have so much condensed beauty in such a relatively small area as the Cotswolds.

A Cotswold Recce
Charles Leon
What you “See” is what you "Get".

Learning to see clearly through daily sketching

What you “See” is what you "Get".
Passion, Design Thinking
Charles Leon
PASSION

You have to go full throttle; passion will pull you through. It's a virtuous circle; the more passion you have, the more you get.

Thinking creatively and passionately drives motivation, and your motivation drives creative thinking.

PASSION

Brain

,

Life is just one thing after another. Pattern, predictability, and Jelly.

,
Life is just one thing after another. Pattern, predictability, and Jelly.

Our brains are built for pattern-making, and pattern-making allows us to predict. To say what will happen next and act accordingly. It's a survival and a learning mechanism. Predictability of pattern or sequence gives us the power to accept or change our future. It’s all part of our creative thinking minds.

,

How to get what you want! Your Reticular Activation System

,
How to get what you want! Your Reticular Activation System

I have often wondered how it is that we can focus on one thing rather than another, why we can sometimes focus so clearly that we exclude all other distractions. Like internet algorithms, It turns out that we have a system in our brains that does just that. The Reticular Activation System.

,

How Creative Thinking Happens.

,
How Creative Thinking Happens.

Creative thinking involves risk and uncertainty, but it is how we grow as individuals, as communities and as societies. We share information and then step up on the knowledge ladder and add a further step for those following in our footsteps.

Sign Up For Newsletter