Tour de Fleece week 1
It has been a busy spinning week! And of course I had to work to (so inconvenient…). In the first…
Tag: postcard
Flaming tulip
It’s tulip season in The Netherlands! The Keukenhof is open and the tourists are admiring all the different colours and…
Robots vs. Downtown mitts
The recipient has received my swap box, so I can finally show what I’ve been knitting in the past weeks!…
Great tit
I’m continuing my bird study. I love the way they look and combination of their subtle colour differences and their in-your-face…
Three eggs
Happy easter! In Dutch we have an old song: Eén ei is geen ei Twee ei is een half ei Drie…
Dark sunset
Today I painted a sunset, and tried to create real dark colours without using black. It kind of worked, but…
Sock Madness round 2
Today when I woke up, I had an email from the Sock Madness organizers: I’m in team Kweechah Knotweed! Kweechah…
Wonky me
I still felt like painting this afternoon, so I decided to do a quick portrait study. And not with just…
Sunset at Haagse Hout
Today’s painting is of the same forest as the one from yesterday. You may recognize the bridge (we are looking at…
Forest light
Yesterday was such a busy day that I didn’t get to do my daily painting. When I came home, I…
Stormy sea
Another seascape postcard today! This time I was trying to make it less vibrant, more stormy. Higher waves, greyer sand,…
Trial and error
After the big painting of yesterday that turned out way nicer than I anticipated, I decided to only paint a…
Wet galaxy
Just a bit of playing, really. Using lots of water, and spattering on the stars after it had dried a…
Experimenting
Yesterday was a really busy day, and I did not find the time to paint. Today I was going to…
Sail away
That’s what I would like to do. The sun was shining today, my husband was at home, and it felt…
Curves & Neutrals
My small study of today is part of the ceiling of a room in Casa Battló (Barcelona). I have tried to…
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…
Sunset
I’ve been playing with my watercolour set again! Again, I used a postcard. I do have some watercolour paper too…
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…
Wet instead of dry
Until now I have mainly been working with dry mediums when creating art. Last year I discovered pastel pencils (and…