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Hira Sameer Ahmed

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I write thoughtful letters every two weeks packed with tiny little nuggets of inspiration, personal insights and behind the scene messy life stories along with occasional updates on what’s coming new and what I have been working on.

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  • 3/100 Taking up the #100dayproject is challenging me and liberating me in ways I never imagined before. I am finding peace and joy in reconnecting with my creativity and putting my brushes and paints to good use. I have come up with a plan to follow each theme (colors/ subject matter and textures) for 10 days and then I can move on to my next adventure and follow my curiosity as it was getting damn hard to pick what I would like to work with today. I am allowing the inspiration to take over me this way. I am allowing for it to come to life. I am allowing the magic to happen. . Also, I need to find a way to integrate my paintings onto my grid as I am running out of my bulk of photography 🙈 and I don't have time to focus on that for now. What do you suggest I can do? Any ideas are welcome and muchhh appreciated. How about not posting on the grid and just keeping it in the stories? or I don't know forget the grid (that I have built with so much thought and effort)? . Anyway, onto today's Day 3- Swipe left. • Silence before the Storm Acrylic on canvas (11 X 14'') • I went to a bigger canvas size today and I am not sure that was a great idea to complete in a day. The sun was going down and paint was still wet when I took the picture and most of the pictures came out blurry because I was in such a rush and somehow I still feel like it is not complete. What are your thoughts? Ops, too many questions to ask in a single post. Sorry. Over to you. #100dayproject_hira
  • 2/100 There exists a gap between where you are and where you want to be and that gap, I believe, is a good thing to have as it pushes you to do what needs to be done to get there, to make mistakes, fail, try harder, make better choices and grow. Whenever we first start at something it is not the true representation of what our work could look like years down that road but we take that ‘beginner work’ as the scale to measure our abilities and sometimes; our self worth with. I believe that’s a mistake that makes us keep small and don’t make any waves which eventually shows up as us being too afraid to take up some space; online or offline. I am talking about how I am acknowledging and dealing with this gap on the blog today. You can find the link in Bio @hirasahmed In other news, swipe left to see Day 2 of #100dayproject ''Reflections of solitude' - Acrylic on canvas (6 x 8'') #100dayproject_hira
  • 1/100 Swipe left to see what I am looking at... The result of Day 1 of #100dayproject 'The Fiery Tide' - Acrylic on canvas 6'' X 8'' #100dayproject_hira
  • My favorite people on the internet, I have something pretty huge to share with you. I am taking part in the #the100dayproject this year and I plan to share all the updates, daily progress on my stories here and on the blog. My project is going to be 100 days of unapologetic painting. .....Eeeek! It's a huge commitment and I'm feeling a little too intimidated or probably just scared but also expansive in a fulfilling and good way. What my dreams and hopes are, what I am giving myself permission to and why am I committing to it in the first place, I'm sharing all about it on the blog today. As always, the link is in my profile @hirasahmed I am announcing it online because I am craving some support and accountability from this generous creative community here on Instagram. #100dayproject_letspaint
  • Yesterday on the blog I shared about the simple things that are working for me when it comes to building a life that I’d absolutely love. I have shared in a hope to inspire you to take what resonates with you and leave the rest as I believe, there is no one size fits all formula. To name a few: - A morning routine that’s working for me: Morning pages, reading, meditation and not checking my phone or emails first thing in the morning. - Regulating my information intake by making conscious choices about how do I follow on social media and where do I go on the internet. - Taking a walk whenever I need to. - Learning to say no. An excerpt from the post about how it all started: ‘When the last year started, I declared to myself – it is going to be my year. Not in a selfish kind of way but more in a getting to know yourself better kind of way. I had been feeling for a while that we are so indulged in our fast-paced lives, constantly moving, rushing and stressing that we almost never have time to have that self-talk that we need the most to keep us moving in a healthier and happier way. We never allow ourselves to have those hard conversations and to make peace with our shortcomings, accepting and forgiving not only ourselves but also others around us. A realization that I only had now after all these years – I can’t be there for anybody else if I can’t be there for myself first.....’ More on the blog, link in Bio @hirasahmed I’d love to know what simple things are working for you?
  • I'm back and I never thought I am going to say this but I've missed connecting with this amazing community here on @instagram while I was gone. All that noise online and negativity makes you rethink the way you feel about being online and I have noticed that Instagram actually makes me feel more connected to my creativity and to the creative community out here. I am so very grateful for you for choosing to stay here. Today I have written about giving yourself permission to be a beginner on the blog and I have also shared a few lessons that I learned along the way. An excerpt from the blogpost: 'Giving yourself permission to become a beginner is quite hard at times. When we become too accustomed to our ways of doing things in a certain way, we feel a little unsafe when we think about taking on a new adventure, some kind of risk even if that's just learning to draw for example. We start expecting and demanding too much of our fragile selves and when there comes a time where we have to make mistakes in order to learn something new, it becomes really hard to give our selves that permission to go out there, make those mistakes and learn.' More on the blog and a direct link in profile to take you there @hirasahmed Trying this cinema-graph is an example of me giving myself permission to explore and go beyond what I know already. It turned out fine, I guess. Not too bad for a first try 😅 I’m curious, do you find it hard to give yourself permission to be a beginner? If so, how do you deal with it and keep moving forward?
  • Have you ever struggled with finding your focus? I certainly have. . ‘....I resonate with the idea of being passionate about multiple things at the same time and I’d rather known for my enthusiasm and curiosity and dedication and commitment to figure things out, learn new things and make it all work instead of attaching a single title with my name. It sounds crazy when I say it out loud as ‘normal’ people have just one thing they want to dedicate their lives to be it writing, painting, photography, design, typography or hand lettering but me, I want to do it all. I want to explore all. Sticking to just one thing feels like a sentence to me, something I’m going to be stuck with, I will lose interest, it will become boring and maybe I won’t be able to find my way out of that prison. What I have learned by my struggles of the past few years to strive as a multi-passionate creative online and find that freedom that I long for is that – it is perfectly normal to want to explore different things at the same time, to have multiple things that you are passionate about and it’s a-okay if that changes, grows and evolves with time. You don’t have to stick to one thing if that’s not for you. The goal is to find what’s for you and maybe like me, for you the desire to explore beyond the drawn lines are far greater than staying in those lines. My truth is, I’m a multi-passionate creative and I’d like to stay that way and continue following my curiosity as I go....' More on the blog - Link in Bio @hirasahmed Today's blog post ‘Struggles of a multi-passionate’ is all about finding your focus as a multi-passionate creative. I also have a workbook with simple and thoughtful questions to help you dig a little deeper and find out what needs your attention the most on your journey as a multi-passionate creative. My hope is that when you finish this workbook you will have a bit more clarity, a bit more courage to create the art you aspire to create, a tiny bit more willingness to show up as your best courageous self and a sense of direction moving forward.
  • Are you a morning person? I certainly am not, well not anymore. I like to start my mornings slowly and intentionally. I like to give myself space to think what do I feel like doing today. I was surprised to learn that it is very common among the rebels. 'Rebel' tendency which is not very common at all. I am referring to @gretchenrubin ’s Four Tendencies Book and if you haven't already tried taking the quiz and learned about yours I recommend checking it out. Today's blog post is all about setting simple, slow and creative intentions for the year ahead keeping my underlying motivations as a rebel in mind. January is almost over and I am just starting to lean into the embracing the year slowly and soulfully. Instagram seems to be fully taken over by the January intentions and all the planning and I am choosing not to feel overwhelmed by that. I am taking a slower approach and trying my best to let go of the pressure to ride along and not left behind. I really do believe, we are all wired differently. What works for everyone else might not work for me. Similarly what works for me might not work for anyone else. We allow meaningful change to happen and come to life by listening to ourselves and what we need at the moment to keep showing up for the sake of ourselves and to keep moving forward one little step at a time at a pace that works for us. I really hope you too are embracing a pace that works well for you...' More on the Blog - Link on profile @hirasahmed . . I'd love to know which tendency do you recognize yourself with, which one are you? A rebel, a questioner, an upholder or an Obliger?
  • What's been inspiring you lately? For me, that would be carefree moments of play, experiment, and daydreaming. Today on the blog I am sharing a fun visualization exercise - a perfect plan for daydreaming. I'm so very excited to share it with you mainly because of the idea and theme behind this exercise of visualizing your present you with the future you, where you are now and where you want to be and somehow it sparked action and motivation in me to bridge the gap between where I was then and where I wanted to be.... To find out more read the rest on the blog. (Link in Bio) I tried this exercise at the end of 2017 and found it quite helpful to see where I want to be focusing my attention on. Swipe to see the results of 2018 and swipe once more to see the outcome of 2019.
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