Here comes my first pattern collection of 2016! As I mentioned in my last pattern post at the end of my 52-pattern-in-2015-challenge, this year I will focus on pattern collections…
It’s here, at last! My copy of Alena Hennessy’s new book Intuitive Painting Workshop has made its way to Germany into my mailbox. And it is a special book, for…
Like this year 2015, also my pattern challenge of the year is coming to its end. And my final patterns are a collection I have developed last month, in Chelsea’s…
So we have come to the last page of Claras Calender of 2015 today: And we have already had the first snow of this season on November 22. Only a…
I haven’t done a Pink Moment for a while, so now it’s time again, because it was just too good: This is a pink pigment I experimented with for painting.…
November is definitely a special month. Not only because my younger daughter’s birthday is at the end of it and a lot of November is spent talking about how many…
I designed my pattern for this week for the Spoonflower contest Moon Phases. It is another pattern from my Mallorca holiday and was created under the influence of the full…
My pattern of the week is another variation of the hibiscus theme from last week. I also designed it on holiday on Mallorca and used photos of hibiscus flowers I…
I like to get my hands and studio messy with glue and papers from time to time and make some collage. It is a relaxing and surprising process and can…
Being on the island of Mallorca those past two weeks, right in front of our hotel, I saw a lot of pink hibiscus. I am not such a big fan…