Sail away
That’s what I would like to do. The sun was shining today, my husband was at home, and it felt…
Colour and depth
No postcard today. I decided to paint a bit in my sketchbook, just improvising with the colours of the Winsor…
Curves & Neutrals
My small study of today is part of the ceiling of a room in Casa Battló (Barcelona). I have tried to…
Tubularity Cowl
Two years ago, a KAL was started in the Dutch Karma Group. We would knit the Tubularity Cowl by Martina…
Let the games begin!
Today is the first day of the annual Sock Madness (SM)! It’s already the 10th edition of this crazy sock…
Boerenbont
Boerenbont is an old Dutch style for sets of cups and plates. I still have a couple of cups and…
Ferret
Today’s painting is a little ferret. Not an easy subject! Just like a tortie cat, it has so many different…
Kingfisher
In the past week or so I have been drawing or painting with my watercolor sets every day. I have…
Remember
It has been almost half a year since my dear cat Fiona passed away. On Tuesday September 1st we had to…
Lime and grey and grey and lime
The Bahija wristlets are done! I made these for a friend with whom I was doing a swap. She provided…
Just keep swimming!
I’m addicted to painting again. I feel the urge to make something every day. Today I was not feeling well.…
Lefka Ori
Lefka Ori (Λευκά Όρη) means “White Mountains”, and it is the name of the amazing mountain range on the west…
Spinning surfaces
I started working on a new set of spinning surfaces. The ones in the first batch worked out fine in…
Stormy sea
Even though the paper I’m using is quite terrible, I took it out again today to make a painting. I…
Drenthe heath
As some of you may know, I’m not originally from Den Haag. I was born in the beautiful province Drenthe…
Deep blue sea
I was almost out of rolags! I still had about 50 grams of dark blue rolags, but nothing substantial. So…
Sunset
I’ve been playing with my watercolour set again! Again, I used a postcard. I do have some watercolour paper too…
Oktober rolags are done
Those nice, autumny colours of the Oktober rolags may not be in the Cool Summer palette, but I sure love…
Dishes
Remember the dishes I made last week? They have been sitting around, drying, after which I gave them a first…
Moonbird
It arrived! It arrived! My moonbird spindle is here! This gorgous Midi Pu Yok from Malcolm Fielding came to live with…
Longing for colour
It may be spring(-like), but it’s still quite cold. Today it even snowed in the east of the Netherlands! Not…
Water kitten
A couple of days ago I tried painting an improvised forest. Starting with lighter colours and building up to darker…
Spring is early
It’s spring here! This winter has been very, very warm compared to what we’re used to – you can hardly…
Spin, spin, spin
I’ve finished spinning my purpink rolags (88 grams). In the last couple of days, my husband and I have been watching…
Clay and paint and play
This afternoon I decided to work a bit more on my clay items. They had dried enough, and I was…
Painted clay
Today I went to the city centre to get some acrylic paint to try on my clay items. Not the…
Wet instead of dry
Until now I have mainly been working with dry mediums when creating art. Last year I discovered pastel pencils (and…
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