St Kilda Palm Trees

St.Kilda Palm Trees Sketch on 15x15cm

Merry Christmas !

Merry Christmas - Frohe Weihnachten - Καλά Χριστούγεννα - Joyeux Noël - Buon Natale 

to everybody and thank you for all your support in 2014 ... even I haven't posted so very regularly as I should , I still am always very happy to read your beautiful comments ! I wish you all a wonderful Christmas time with friends and family !

Christmas Goat - Mixed media on collage

Black Thoughts

Black Thoughts   Mixed media and collage on paper   29x41cm

My first painting after such a long time... and probably also the last one before the semesters starts again :) 

It is a bit different than my work usually I think, maybe because of my 'shade and shadow studies for interiors' Also I think I enjoyed to paint/draw it slowly without rush and the shading was more or less a meditative exercise !

Nothing to hold on ...

Nothing to hold on.... Ink, coffee, acrylic and string in sketchbook

It has been such a long time that I posted and an even longer time that I have painted. With all the time that I need to do my studies, there is just nooo time left at all for painting. But now the holidays are on, but I am not sure if I will get to 'real' painting.... I might just do few sketches in my sketchbook. It just takes time to get back into it ! And by that time I might be back at my studies again ;-) 

I hope everybody is well (and working more regular than I do !!!!)

The Starman (Juri Gagarin)

Starman  Mixed media and collage on old paper 25x25cm.

Something a little bit different today..... A painting inspired by an article I read about Juri Gagarin, the first man who really saw the stars !

There are so many courageous people out there to be admired, and I don't mean just the big courageous things like Juri did....

Les soeurs

Les soeurs   Mixed media and collage in sketchbook

Bla bla bla

Bla bla bla   Mixed media and collage in sketchbook

What I really like about sketchbooks is, that there is no fear.... the act of drawing or painting is more a playing than a planing..... The result is then often so different than expected with new ideas coming up while playing !

Unspoken Words

Unspoken Words   Mixed media in sketchbook

Dreaming Time

Dreaming Time   Mixed media and collage in sketchbook

I have worked the last couple of days in my sketchbook, but I am not really in the rhythm to paint, to write, to post ...... The internet makes a lot of things easier.... but on the same time makes also a lot of work ! I don't know how a lot of you do it ....
Sometimes I have the impression that the action around the painting ( taking a photo, resizing etc etc etc...) is more work than the actual painting :))

 Anyway, this painting is about  what I do at night :) I go and visit my old life !

Element Fire

Element Fire   Mixed media and collage on old paper   29x43cm.

One more painting from last week, and I am aware now, that I will also have to paint element earth and element air now :) It seems after a long time not painting I find it easiest just to paint faces ... before a theme really evolves. But the coming week I will concentrate on my sketchbooks again to loosen up a bit ! I don't like when my paintings become stiff and somehow dead. The best medicine for that is to work with collages in my case or trying to "fill up a sketchbook the day" ;-)
Also I gave a little interview at Red Bubble the other day if you are interested. Amazing how few things get clear when you write about them ...

Ned Kelly

Ned   Collage and stencil and colour on paper  15x15cm.

Possum

 Possum Mixed media and collage on paper. 

I have started my studies again but still hope, that I will be able to paint  a little bit ( I think I had the same hope for last semester :)) 

I might just do some small works, that will be at the end part of one big frame ( like "Discovering Melbourne's secrets") And this one will be also about Melbourne... and one of the first things I think about when thinking about Melbourne ....are the possums :) 

Portrait

Portrait   Acrylic on collage and recycled paper.  29×41cm.

Just playing with colour....

Europe 2

Europe 2   Mixed media and collage on recycled paper. 29x43cm.

coeur

Coeur Mixed media in sketchbook 

Working in my sketchbook to 'warm up' for bigger paintings again......

sisters

Sisters  Mixed media and collage in sketchbook 15x30cm

Back to working into my sketchbook ... Just also enjoying to work without a theme, but to just see 'what happens' !

Memories  sketchbook 15x30cm 

After a long break, I am starting to get back into painting. The best way for me to start, is to start small and with not much exception ( which actually is always a good starting point !) 

More playing than planing.... 

This year I will have less time to paint as I will start to study ( interior design ) , but my plan is to still work in my sketchbooks and maybe to combine interiors with painting.... Not really sure how all that is going to work together ! But the idea of course is to keep painting  !!!

Fall

Fall  Mixed media and collage on recycled paper  29x41cm.

The third painting after my 3 weeks break, and it is the first one, that I am happy with ! 

Like with everything, painting needs exercise and work and work and work :) I heart from one artist (Horst Janssen) that he would draw first thing in the morning 50 (!!!!) hands, before he would even start to do his own work for the day .... Just to loosen up. I think I need to get back to my small sketchbook to loosen up again and be more experimental ! How do you loosen up ? 

Protected

Protected  Mixed media and collage on paper  29x41cm.

Heart

Heart  Encaustic and mixed media on paper   29x41cm.

Back at work since yesterday ..... After just 3 weeks of a break, I have the feeling I need to relearn to paint ... and the big questions comes : "WHAT" to paint .... and also a little bit "WHY" to paint ! 

I just need few days to get back into the rhythm I suppose.

 I did enjoy the smell of the hot wax and the oil though :)