Deciding when to stop
I’ve been working on the painting for my mother some more. I erased the areas that I didn’t like (the…
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The hard part…
I’ve kind of finished my painting. I did fill the paper, but that doesn’t mean it’s there yet: I’m quite…
Finally…
You have not seen a lot of paintings from me lately. That’s because I haven’t made any in the last…
Sharing pictures
I’ve had a keen interest in photography for almost ten years now, and am still enjoying making nice pictures. One…
Starting green
Recently I haven’t been drawing as much (because I was knitting more), but I did start a new painting yesterday.…
Winterscape – Finished
Today I continued with my Winterscape painting. This is the fun part: after the initial sketch, you get to play…
Winterscape
Yesterday I finally had time and energy to draw again. I had been sick last week, and this week I…
Girl with a hat
This painting started out as a quick sketch of my niece. It wasn’t entirely accurate, so the real likeness is…
Frankenau
Today when drawing. I worked on my new easel, a Windsor & Newton Hamilton studio easel. Before I was sitting on…
WIP: Fabulous Fosters
The fosters that I’ve been writing about yesterday are quite inspiring indeed. I’ve decided to draw them all together as…
Tortitude
In the past few months I’ve been watching the live webcam of the Critter Room on a regular basis. John…
Cityscape
After drawing mostly portraits, I decided to try something else. A cityscape of sorts. I really love the few canals…
Oh boy!
Today I finished a new drawing that I started at the beginning of this week. Unfortunately, the daylight time is…
Penseuse
I’ve had some busy days. First, we went away for the weekend to visit my brother and his family, which…
Isabel
Today I finished the drawing of little Isabel! It was fun to draw her, and I think it went quite…
Chiaroscuro
At the moment I’m reading The Artist’s Complete Guide to Drawing the Head by William Maughan, which explains very clearly how…
Drawing and energy
It’s weird and yet it’s not. When I’m tired, I tend to want to draw less detailed than when I’m…
Rough drawing
Today I was putting some final touches to the Autumn Fairy drawing (I corrected the nose a bit, and made…
No training wheels
Today I was looking forward to just drawing. I started a drawing of a beautiful Portugese blue door and its…
Playing with colours
Last Thursday, I spent the afternoon with my dear friend Anna, playing with colours. Anna has a big box full…
Portrait
Somehow, I am drawn toward drawing portraits. I have the same thing happening when I make photos. I like making…
Quite hard
During the last couple of days I have been working on this portrait of my parents: It was quite hard,…
Practice makes…
… you longing for more materials to practice with! Today I’ve been working on a sketch of my nephew, and…
Portrait drawing
Today I tried to make a portrait of my husband, David. I received the extra skin tone pencils which I…
Drawing – continued
After making that portrait of my niece yesterday, which is probably the nicest drawing I ever made (I didn’t draw…
Drawing is fun!
Last Saturday, I bought some very nice colour pencils in an art shop. I had been wanting for over a…
Bumblebeebutt
Just adorable.
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