![](https://cdn.neighbourly.co.nz/images/cache/user_profile_profile_picture/attachments/5d395495ae42c0.00177032.jpeg?170410)
New to art or painting? Need help?
Follow my free weekly art tips and techniques to help you improve your skills.
This week: LEARN HOW TO EASILY CREATE DEPTH AND DISTANCE IN YOUR ART.
Do you struggle to add depth and distance in your art? Do your paintings or drawings always end up looking flat?
Read this weeks blog to learn how to use size, shading and colour to add depth and dimension to your artwork and overcome the disappointment of flat art forever!
Read it here heartforart.co.nz...
Or if you'd like to get my step by step guidance to create your own painting, join me in the studio or online for one of my fun Paint Party art classes.
Next Studio Painting Class
Sat 25 July, 3pm - Tui Tastic
Next Virtual Painting Classes
Sat 18 July, 3pm - Oriental Bay
All event info and tickets here heartforart.co.nz...
![Image](https://cdn.neighbourly.co.nz/images/cache/message_max_size/message_images/5f178cdb5cde90.45685753.jpeg?170410)
![](https://cdn.neighbourly.co.nz/images/cache/user_profile_profile_picture/organisation/5431e2f56f6da0.99048672.png?170410)
Poll: Do you believe in ghosts?
Just for a little bit of fun, we'd love to know whether Kiwis believe in ghosts. What goes on in our communities that we don't know about!
Perhaps you've seen a ghost or lived in a haunted home in New Zealand. We'd love to know, so vote in our poll and share your experiences in the comments below.
![Image](https://cdn.neighbourly.co.nz/images/cache/message_max_size/message_images/66c285e1977587.42966837.jpeg?170410)
-
56.4% Yes
-
41.3% No
-
2.3% Other - I'll share below
![](https://cdn.neighbourly.co.nz/images/cache/user_profile_profile_picture/organisation/5431e2f56f6da0.99048672.png?170410)
Poll: Have you kept trinkets from your life?
Many of us are sentimental about our childhoods and lives, and some even collect things to remember moments or people.
Share what you've held on to over the years and whether you still have it today. Feel free to share photos too, we'd love to see.
![Image](https://cdn.neighbourly.co.nz/images/cache/message_max_size/message_images/66b55d1c0cdbb8.40903288.jpeg?170410)
-
88.7% Yes
-
11.3% No
![](https://cdn.neighbourly.co.nz/images/cache/user_profile_profile_picture/attachments/6359da77bf7d06.32089545.jpeg?170410)
Deirdre’s Cheese Puffs
Deirdre loves cooking and enjoys teaching kids about food - something she does three times at week at the Busy Bees Kindergarten in Havelock North. We spoke to her while she whipped up a batch of cheese puffs in her townhouse at James Wattie Village.
Watch her journey of teaching, retirement and still working. Plus, we’ve included the recipe to her cheese puffs which were gobbled up by our camera crew because they’re delicious!
Click read more for the full recipe.
![Image](https://cdn.neighbourly.co.nz/images/cache/message_max_size/message_images/66c53fa8e72526.71312664.jpeg?170410)