Story Time
The latest swap in the Dutch Karma Swap group is called Story Time. It’s a long-running swap (three months) in…
Tag: painting
Happy New Year!
I know that it’s already January 4th, but here in The Netherlands you are allowed to give your well-wishes for…
Le chat qui rit
Lately I have been wanting to draw and paint a bit more realistically, but I have been stuck on finding…
Zero to technicolour in 3… 2… 1…
These pencils are so much fun! They’re little firecrackers of pigment, and if you’re not careful in applying them, the…
Over the moon!
I got myself an early birthday present. It’s awesome. It’s a set of Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle pencils. They are…
The devil is in the details
So I’m casually painting in my little Moleskine sketchbook. It’s quite small, so it’s more of a doodling book. Just…
Against the light
Here’s a little trial painting in which I’m trying to set a scene against the light. First I painted the sky/background…
Depth and silhouette
Remember the painting I was working on? This is the one: I worked on it a bit more, adding in…
Space and watercolour
My latest painting is developing slowly. I’m trying to add focus with every step… but it’s not easy! I also…
Moving into colour dreams
My most recent paintings have been more dreamy than the ones I made in the beginning. When I started painting…
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…
Rainy days
This past month has been very, very rainy. Usually it doesn’t rain that much in Den Haag. Living next to…
Fluid silhouettes
Even though I haven’t posted about it, I have been painting a bit. Just not as much as before I…
Contrast
I have just had a very busy two weeks! I started on a new job last week, then went away…
Playing with paint
Usually when I pick up a new hobby I slightly obsess over it – well, obsess may be too big…
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!…
Suggestion
Wet-in-wet. That’s what I’m trying. For the birds I was working wet-in-dry, which gives you more control over the outcome,…
Focus
It’s interesting to see that my paintings are better when I have more brain power. It makes total sense, of…
Tomtit
Today’s bird is the tomtit. It looks a lot like the great tit, but when painting the differences are quite…
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…
Robin
This afternoon I decided that I would paint a bird today, and I selected a robin because then I could…
Done with Delft
For this painting, anyway. I have tried to intensify the darks a bit more, and to add nicer shadows to…
Neutrals
I’ve been working on my Delft painting a bit more. I tried to give the houses interesting stone colours. I’m…
Colour musings
One subject that I really, really love, and always get back to through the years (and in my pastimes) is…
Sketching and painting
I finished my Delft sketch today! In the past few days I worked on it a bit every day, but not…
Three eggs
Happy easter! In Dutch we have an old song: Eén ei is geen ei Twee ei is een half ei Drie…