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 nights there are still left to sleep before her big day arrives. November itself is a mysterious month to me, a time for retreat, contemplation,… Read More
Another week, another challenge ;-). Because one challenge (this here) is just not enough, I also joined the #gatheringevidence Instagram photo challenge by American photographer Catherine Just, whose soulful photography I discovered recently. For 30 days she gives photo prompts, that keep you thinking, feeling, observing and taking photos with your iPhone – I joined… Read More
You can never have too many inspirations prompts, I believe. And that combined with a worldwide Instagram community doubles the fun. A couple of days ago I “accidentally” stumbled upon the #365doodleswithjohannafritz and decided to join – hey, I can add a doodle a day on top of the other things I do daily anyway. … Read More
My first pattern after the holidays is still very holiday-inspired. With a colour palette from this room in our bungalow on Koh Samet. With some of these greens and pinks I created a pattern for the latest stoff’n design contest themed “arrows”. A funny thing I learned about arrow patterns: even when all the arrows… Read More
“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Henry James It was exactly that – a perfect Sunday late-summery afternoon, spent in my garden with Doris Reske doing our Colab 6. We further worked on our monoprinted backgrounds from Colab V, adding line-work,… Read More
I brought my sketchbook home brimming with sketches and the feeling of fun I had while drawing them. Nearly all of its hundred pages filled up with memories and the big and little things I saw and put to paper on our Thailand trip. Things, that a camera can’t capture this way. Mostly little things,… Read More
Doris and me painted again last weekend – and this time we went from big size canvases to small cardboard pieces. And I felt like bringing my gelliplate into the game. So we spent a couple of lovely Sunday hours monoprinting while it was raining outside, once in a while one of my daughters joined… Read More
Doris Reske and me have just had some productive painterly weeks – we have our new exhibition at Gross & Gross in Oldenburg, where we show mostly our individual artwork and only one Co-Lab painting. But for upcoming art shows we would like to have more large Co-Lab canvases to exhibit. So we had two… Read More
* latest Dutch issue of flow magazine * Indian paper * a new bell for my bike * a postcard and papers from the excellent Matisse exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum (the coloured paper comes from the children’s corner where they could cut and be their own little Matisses) * more crafts paper from made… Read More
I am happy to announce a new year-long project today! As my three 365-day-projects have ended with the end of last year, I first felt some relieve for a while this month. Carolina has stopped taking her afternoon naps coinciding with the end of the photo-project and I can declutter now only when I feel… Read More