art Archives - Eva Hussain Studio

Painting people can be a massive pain in the ass. I mean, you just get one thing a bit off and it looks like a completely different person. I decided, once and for all, that it was time to get better at drawing people. Doing it in colour scared me, so I did it in monochrome. Back in 2018 when I started drawing on the iPad I wanted to learn how to use Procreate (my drawing app) better. On canvas […]

Self-Expression

Should you give up on having creative hobbies if you aren’t the creative type?

18th December 20191st December 2020

Should you have creative hobbies even if you aren't creative?

So, you can’t draw. Or knit. Or go near superglue without gluing at least two fingers together. You can’t decorate a cake to save your life and your violin playing makes the alleycats yowl. So what? Does that mean that you should give up on having creative hobbies? Of course not! Creativity is a fundamental part of who you are as a human being – and it doesn’t matter what the end result looks like. That’s something that you tweak […]

Art & design journal

Is my art for you?

12th August 201918th January 2021

I love making empowering art for women. Because I want all you badass bitches to have my art in your life. I want it to inspire you every day. I want the women who are still growing up. I want the women who’ve already seen things and done things. I want the women who are content with their life. And the women who are still searching for themselves or for something else. I want the brutally honest, the terminally awkward […]

Self-Expression

Feel like your home doesn’t look like you? Here’s 10 ways to bring art into your home and your life

6th August 201913th October 2022

When I say ‘art’, what pops into your head? Galleries? Fancy openings with impossibly long champagne flutes? Being judged for not understanding a painting that looks like something your toddler made? Beret-and-sunglass wearing artists who’d rather just spend all their time in the studio instead of schmoozing with potential clients? Well, you’re not wrong. That’s the world of high brow art, where you’ll see price tags on paintings that you’d normally see on a new car in a showroom. But […]