People Blues

People Blues Mixed media

Playing around with mixed media....

The Mask

The Mask - 22x29 cm Mixed media (print, ink and water colour) on paper

Time for some experimenting ... and some old techniques!  It is always inspiring to start something new (new technique, new sketchbook, new pens or pencils) and it is also always comforting to use an old way of working. So today I did both at the same time. Experimenting with my printer (it must be somehow more useful in my paintings...) and worked in one of my old favourite techniques: Water colour.... and :  Liked it :)

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

Goat

Today a different sort of portrait.... I have always been fascinated by goats, maybe because they remind me so much of Greece (and the donkey of course !).
When I saw those beautiful goat portraits from Kevin Horan, I got inspired to do some painting! It had been a while again....

Blondie - Mixed media on recycled and collaged paper. 29x41cm

The Wolf

"The Wolf" Ink, coffee, pencil and pigment on recycled paper. 29x43cm

"Memories of the sea" Collage and mixed media in sketchbook.

Survived The Wolves….

'Survived the Wolves'  Mixed media on collage 29x41cm

Portrait

Portrait of Sebastiano Tabacco Mixed media on grey paper . 29x41cm

'Blue Stone' cushion

Textile Pattern


Still enjoying playing with pattern repeat and the the surprises with it ! Yesterday it started as a portrait ( see previous post) and to day a cushion…. They would work great together :) The cushion is, like all my other prints available on Red Bubble:here

Face

"Face" Mixed media on paper. 21x29cm

'The Judge'

'The judge' mixed media 21x29cm

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 !

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 ...

Element Water

Element Water   Mixed media on recycled paper   29x43cm