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Mar72015Aug 29 2015
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Pink Moment of the Week

Wow, two art shows within one week!

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My solo exhibition at Corpus Oldenburg opened this week (blogged here). And then the city of Rostock (where I grew up) hosts its annual amateur art exhibition Rostock kreativ – with a new record of 713 artists participating. The last time my mother visited us, she grabbed one of my paintings – morning song – and now it also hangs there:

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Mar62015May 9 2015
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Pattern 10/52

Another week, another pattern, another contest.

This is my submission for the Spoonflower contest “Spoons”:

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For this pattern I learned a couple of new things. First of all I made the pattern in Photoshop (I usually use Illustrator). The spoons are simple line drawings of spoons that I scanned in and then applied some golden Photoshop magic with the program InstaGlam. InstaGlam was part of a recent Design Bundle by Design Cuts (if you don’t know them yet, check out their website for some amazing deals).

I don’t want to bore you with too many technical details, but I had a personal breakthrough with repeating pattern design in Photoshop. I only knew the “offset”-method for creating repeats in Photoshop before, that can be tricky, because you can’t change your designs afterwards. But with a method I learned recently in the Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design Module 2, you can move all your objects and rearrange them like in Illustrator with using the Free Transform function. Heureka!

You can enter your patterns until Tuesday, March 10th. Voting will open on Thursday, March 12th on www.spoonflower.com.

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Mar32015Dec 12 2016
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Sport and Art

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My solo exhibition at the Body- and Health center Corpus in Oldenburg opened this week. What about stepping on a scale and look at some art?

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Work out, sweat and be motivated by my colourful paintings.

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The exhibition is open to the public during the working hours of the sports center until June.

PS: A huge thanks goes to Susanne Schwartinsky-Probst for giving me the opportunity to show my work there and to Hubby for hanging and photography.

Merken

Merken

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Mar12015May 9 2015
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Hello March!

It is the first of March today and as I am writing this the sun is coming out after a morning of rain.

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I am not quite sure what this chicken wants to tell me for the month of March to come, and Clara couldn’t tell me either (Easter is only next month). What I know, is that March will be a packed month workwise and great month to grow creatively. I will be taking the B Part of the e-course Make Art that Sells with Lilla Roger’s Studio.

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Work for the following markets will be created – paper, baby/children’s apparel & décor, scrapbooking, editorial and party paper. Five full weeks of learning, advice, a very talented and supportive community and making, making, making. March will not be a month when I will be getting a lot of sleep. So our family city trip at the end of March will be very appreciated. Where will we go? Let me surprise you. All I can say now, that it is a charming, cool and trendy European city, that I visited last time nearly 20 years ago. And this time, I won’t be eating the “space cake” ;-).

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Feb282015May 9 2015
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Green

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I used to knit a lot. I even used to have a knitting blog. I started this dress 3,5 years ago when I was pregnant with my second daughter Carolina (blogged here). Then I stopped knitting this dress. Because of the belly. Then because of breastfeeding. And then painting came my way again. 3,5 years sounds like a long time for knitting a dress, but I spent more not knitting this dress, then knitting it. So much interesting time in-between. And then this month, motivated by Clara’s February calendar page, the colour green and the anticipation of spring, I picked up the knitting needles and the dress again.

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The pattern is by Danish knitting designer Annette Danielsen.

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So dear spring, I did my work.

Now it’s your turn.

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Feb272015May 9 2015
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Pattern 9/52

Exciting news! This pattern of mine is shortlisted for the Tigerprint Floral Pattern Competition.

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I created this pattern this month during the Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design course Module 2. We were given a lot of trend reports for spring and summer 2016 and I used some of the colours that were forecasted by WGSN. The tulips were hand-drawn. Hubby has this new thing about having fresh flowers of the windowsill of his room. A vase full of tulips and a longing for spring to begin served as my model and inspiration. The pattern is then naturally named after its flower-lover – “Oliver’s Tulips”.

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From over 1400 entries Tigerprint has chosen 87 pattern for the shortlist, so I am happy and amazed to be on that list. And as is this surface pattern design class is so talented, there are a couple of other classmates shortlisted. Congratulations to all of us! Everybody could submit up to five designs and I must say that this was my least favourite … but who knows, what the Tigerprint people are looking for. The shortlist is such a mix of so many different styles, it will be a real surprise to see the winner. As my pattern is very spring-seasonal and “edgy” I am not for a second considering being picked for the floral crown. But no matter what, I enjoyed making this pattern a lot and especially learning how to apply textures in Illustrator. Good luck to the other ABSPDers!

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Feb262015May 9 2015
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Magic Mountain Village

The February assigment of Lilla Roger’s MATS Bootcamp was quite a creative and emotional rollercoaster ride for me. The “mini” for the warm-up week was to look at vintage scenic plates, be inspired and draw your own scenes. I discovered, that I especially liked the Japanese plates with landscape scenes. And I must admit, that I don’t consider drawing scenes one of my strenghts, but rather a challenge. So I didn’t draw very much and spent more time noticing what I liked and see what the creative bunch was up to in the Facebook group. When the main assigment was revealed the following week, it was quite a surprise. No plates were to be designed, but painting a scene on a wood slice. Real painting with real paint on real wood! Even though I do consider painting something of a homezone, there was still that “scene” part. Abstracts, flowers and emotions anytime, but scenes? So I procrastinated and procrastinated and blamed it on the impossible mission to find wood slices in Northern Germany. And that didn’t feel good. I found a round canvas in my studio and played around with paint a bit and superimposed it on a wood slice photograph.

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I think, this thing shows my confusion and the struggle with the assignment very well. Where is the scene? The creative bunch in the Facebook group showed cute scenes of animals, and girls and flowers. That was not my thing. But I didn’t give up (even though I was close to) and prayed and surrendered and looked at Pinterest. At one point near the assigment deadline I had my aha-moment and I remembered a scene.

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The town of Gáldar on Gran Canaria, that we visited during our holiday there last autumn. When we drove by that mountain, I took photographs and thought that I would really like to use this for inspiration later on. Later on was now. As I still wasn’t able to find wood slices I stayed with the canvas board and had a lot of pleasure painting my submission:

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That felt beautiful and I couldn’t resist putting this painting into a little mock-up scene.

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A total fake, my painting process is usually so messy ;-).

You can view the whole February class gallery here.

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Feb212015May 9 2015
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Pattern 8/52

This week’s pattern I designed for a Spoonflower design challenge called “coral, mint, black and white”.

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And these are exactly the colours you are supposed to work with, and only these colours. Not the usual palette I am drawn to, but a very refreshing inspiration, I found. For my pattern I used one basic hand-drawn shape of a bud.

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Let’s call the pattern “sophisticated buds”.

This is how it looks like as a bedding mock-up:

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It is the first time I enter a Spoonflower contest, so I decided to brush up my Spoonflower page and add some more designs. You can see it here, if you like. Voting for this design contest starts on Thursday, March 5th. You can still submit until March 3rd. Good luck everyone!

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Feb172015May 10 2015
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Winter or Spring?

February is such a hybrid of a month.

There are still those winter days,

when my feelings and paintings look like this:

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And then,

there might be a day,

like Friday last week,

that feels like the first day of spring,

with sunshine and blue skies all day long,

a certain sweet and fresh smell in the air,

and a feeling of expansion.

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Feb132015May 10 2015
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Pattern 7/52

For this week’s pattern I just couldn’t help it –

it is Valentine’s Day tomorrow.

Hearts, hearts, hearts,

on a postcard in a half drop pattern repeat.

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The hearts are simple doodles,

one is based on this thing I found in our living room.

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Have a beautiful and lovely day!

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Hi creative people, I have a brandnew 90-min class Hi creative people, I have a brandnew 90-min class with @etchr_studio coming up this Friday at 10am EDT - ‘Nostalgic Little Portraits in Multi-Media’ 🎨

Making art is more than just techniques. Art is about capturing moments and connecting emotionally with your subject. If this resonates with you, then please join me when I show you in this interactive class:

• The easiest (and quickest) way to create portraits
• Combining coloured pencils, markers, crayons, watercolour and acrylics
•  How to identify facial proportions
•  Adding expression to your portraits through simple marks
•  How to consider negative space in your composition
•  Picking simple but effective colour palettes

Materials needed:
• Watercolour and/or acrylic
, coloured pencils, crayons, black marker
• Brush and water
• Postcard-sized paper (5-6 pieces)

The class will be streamed live & free on Etchr’s YouTube channel this Friday and anybody can join. You can find the link right on top in my bio linktree. After that it will not be visible on YouTube anymore, but you can purchase the class recording for only $7. A 7-day-subscription-free-trial of Etchr Studio is also available (hundreds of classes!).

If you have missed my 30-min free introductory demo to little portraits, this stays on YouTube and you can also find it in my bio linktree if you would like to warm up for class on Friday. See you 👋 

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86,87/100 of #the100dayproject for @kunstautomaten 86,87/100 of #the100dayproject for @kunstautomaten 

Inviting softer summer vibes with ink and coloured pencils 🌸

#floralartist #myfavoriteseason #ilovejuly
This week I had the big honour to do a dance & art This week I had the big honour to do a dance & art project at a school in Oldenburg, where I live in Germany. The overall theme was ‘Europe & Diversity’.

For the whole week the pupils (aged 10-14) and I danced to songs in the languages of Europe, in this school alone there are pupils from over 50 nationalities.

And then we painted the national flowers of European countries (like roses of England, irises of France, poppies of Poland and cornflowers of Germany) to put them together in a large colourful collage to be displayed at the end of the week on Open Day, and the pupils also choreographed their own dance performance. I am very proud of them 💃🏻🎨🌸🎉😊💪 And I feel I learned more from them then they from me.

#floralartist #artistlife #dancedancedance
85/100 of #the100dayproject for @kunstautomaten B 85/100 of #the100dayproject for @kunstautomaten

Bye-bye, acrylics for the moment! We had such an impressive expressive time together. But I think tomorrow I will open a new chapter of art supplies for the last 15 cards of my project. 

#dailyproject #floralartist #acrylicflowerpainting
‘Aloha’ made it to Antigua 🌺👙🏝 My tr ‘Aloha’ made it to Antigua 🌺👙🏝

My tropical print for @malswim, photo by @officialashleyrod 

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83,84/100 of #the100dayproject for @kunstautomaten 83,84/100 of #the100dayproject for @kunstautomaten 

Maximum floral impact.

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Have a lovely Sunday ☀️🌊🌴 I just love t Have a lovely Sunday ☀️🌊🌴

I just love to see how my Diana print for @bydee_aus is travelling around the world.

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81,82/100 of #the100dayproject for @kunstautomaten 81,82/100 of #the100dayproject for @kunstautomaten 

Unusual colour Palette.

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I still can’t really believe it’s summer now! I still can’t really believe it’s summer now! It’s like longing for it all year and now it came like a surprise, strange thing.

Still a month of work ahead for me, but then - let’s start dreaming, this photo by @malswim with my Aloha print puts me in the right tropical state of mind 🌴🌊👙

#textiledesign #summerstateofmind #beachvibes
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