When I step outside our house onto the terrace these June days and look up, I have a view kind of like this: I’ll be leaving for Brighton/England tomorrow for the MATS Global Art Gathering. I have been taking the Make Art that sells online courses with the Lilla Rogers School over the last months… Read More
I am a bit behind with my pattern challenge these days. For the last two weeks most of my creative energy went into relaunching my website and painting some big paintings for my upcoming show. Also Module 3 of the Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design is very business-based with loads of information about… Read More
A new collage called “triple goddess”. I usually have a couple of backgrounds on rotation in my studio. I put leftover paint on them, stencil stuff or start collages. They keep evolving over a couple of weeks and sometimes months, with some changes every now and then. And I rarely have an idea how they… Read More
This week’s pattern is again a by-product of the Make Art that Sells course Part B, its 5th and final week was dedicated to Party Paper – paper plates, napkins, paper cups, wrapping paper etc. Our inspiration – the mini – was Bavarian and Ukrainian folk art. Ok, I am half-German (but not Bavarian) and… 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
Back home from a 6-day-European-city-family-holiday. Before we went, I discovered this yarn graffiti in front of Oldenburg train station: More about this super-relaxed, inspirational and only mildly mind-blowing getaway after I have unpacked.
It is the first of March today and as I am writing this the sun is coming out after a morning of rain. 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… Read More
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… Read More
My second pattern for the year-long challenge is also based on a gem shape like 1/52, I call it Tropical Crystals: This time the crystal shape was hand-drawn. And why tropical? Because I used some colours of this colour palette from last year’s trip to Thailand. And how I surprisingly found out today, the colours… Read More