First New Project For The New Year, BP: Week 1
New year, and didn’t get my blog up to date. *sigh* Well, these things happen! My PC is still dead. The silver lining is that it forces me to do more traditional stuff. That’s one of my goals these year…
30 Rock (minus 25)
Inspired by last session with the still-lifes, this week everybody was assigned a task of selecting one object and doing study(s) of it. As a back-story we heard that sometimes (in art schools) you have to do even hundreds of…
A Quick Update
Hello to everyone. The planned blog silence I mentioned in my last posting (commissions still available!) is slightly easing with this post. My intention is to start posting older stuff during the next few weeks in order to catch up…
Christmas Commissions 2012
Long time no posts. Well, actually that was pretty conscious: this blog really doesn’t have any regular followers, so rather than write about art for myself, I rather use my scarce free time doing and thinking about art. Due to…
Why I Don’t Do Lineart… (WW#15)
Sometimes when looking at pieces others have made it gets you. The pressing urge to try something new. And luckily sometimes you can have such fun whilst painting! Those of you who have followed my blog and/or my works for…
Why I Don’t Do Still-Lifes, Reason No. 1
It has been said that behind every successful painting there’s a winning still-life. Well, this posting should explain a lot when it comes to my painting career… This second watercolour painting lesson the assignment was to paint a fairly complex…
Quick Sketch in Spring Colours
This is the mandatory Easter posting. Felt like drawing something quick and use the pink watercolour stick. Alas,below the results. This was also January assignment for pARTy-challenge (@dA). Very difficult ref for me, mainly because I found it difficult to…
Loving Lino ♥!
Even if test prints generally are no show case material, this time I need to hype a little. I love lino printing. I love my new lino blocks. I love those lino colours. When I grow up, I’ll do only…
FW #13: Comfortable Visit Outside The Comfort Zone
Believe or not, a Finished Works posting! Only one work though, but it’s a start. And it did take only 8 weeks… This week’s finished work is a commission I tried to finish a month ago. “Tried” mainly because of…
WW #13: In The Valley of Frustration
A couple of days late, because I’ve been too lazy to check this week’s number… (Seriously.) I had the flu this week and thus had a tiny amount of time for art stuff. Which was kinda nice because I really…