New studio
It’s almost done! Last Saturday, my husband and my father-in-law laid down the laminate flooring, and yesterday my husband and…
Woolgathering | Fibrebending | Love is in the details
It’s almost done! Last Saturday, my husband and my father-in-law laid down the laminate flooring, and yesterday my husband and…
It’s December 31st, and today I’m looking back on a surprising, interesting, and at times difficult year. I did not…
Lately, I have been focused on some other things than fibre crafting. I don’t have room in my head for…
What is it called when you make digital paintings? Because that’s something that I’ve been doing a lot in the…
Last week I was on holiday, and halfway through, I decided to (finally) bite the bullet and get a new…
The latest swap in the Dutch Karma Swap group is called Story Time. It’s a long-running swap (three months) in…
I know that it’s already January 4th, but here in The Netherlands you are allowed to give your well-wishes for…
Lately I have been wanting to draw and paint a bit more realistically, but I have been stuck on finding…
These pencils are so much fun! They’re little firecrackers of pigment, and if you’re not careful in applying them, the…
I got myself an early birthday present. It’s awesome. It’s a set of Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle pencils. They are…
So I’m casually painting in my little Moleskine sketchbook. It’s quite small, so it’s more of a doodling book. Just…
Here’s a little trial painting in which I’m trying to set a scene against the light. First I painted the sky/background…
Remember the painting I was working on? This is the one: I worked on it a bit more, adding in…
My latest painting is developing slowly. I’m trying to add focus with every step… but it’s not easy! I also…
My most recent paintings have been more dreamy than the ones I made in the beginning. When I started painting…
It has been a busy spinning week! And of course I had to work to (so inconvenient…). In the first…
This past month has been very, very rainy. Usually it doesn’t rain that much in Den Haag. Living next to…
Even though I haven’t posted about it, I have been painting a bit. Just not as much as before I…
I have just had a very busy two weeks! I started on a new job last week, then went away…
Usually when I pick up a new hobby I slightly obsess over it – well, obsess may be too big…
It’s tulip season in The Netherlands! The Keukenhof is open and the tourists are admiring all the different colours and…
The recipient has received my swap box, so I can finally show what I’ve been knitting in the past weeks!…
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,…
It’s interesting to see that my paintings are better when I have more brain power. It makes total sense, of…
I’m continuing my bird study. I love the way they look and combination of their subtle colour differences and their in-your-face…
This afternoon I decided that I would paint a bird today, and I selected a robin because then I could…
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