Landscape painting
Instead of knitting or spinning, I have been spending my time playing the violin, reading, and painting, lately. I wrote…
Category: Painting
Playing with colours
I’ve started a new spinning project with some beautiful fibres that I received in a Secret Santa exchange. However, it’s…
Reflections
It’s the last day of 2022 today. This year has flown by so rapidly. I noticed that I’ve only posted…
Exploring still lifes
For the past few months, whenever I was painting on my iPad, I sort of ended up painting fantasy landscapes.…
Song of the day: Morgen!
Today, or actually, last night, Vrouw Holle entered The Netherlands. It was snowing and storming – technically, we had a…
2020 in hindsight
It’s December 31st, and today I’m looking back on a surprising, interesting, and at times difficult year. I did not…
Shifted focus
Lately, I have been focused on some other things than fibre crafting. I don’t have room in my head for…
Digidraw? Digipaint?
What is it called when you make digital paintings? Because that’s something that I’ve been doing a lot in the…
iPad Pro sleeve
Last week I was on holiday, and halfway through, I decided to (finally) bite the bullet and get a new…
Story Time
The latest swap in the Dutch Karma Swap group is called Story Time. It’s a long-running swap (three months) in…
Silhouettes
I had a bit of a painting block going on. Painting colour and shape and precision were too much for…
Happy New Year!
I know that it’s already January 4th, but here in The Netherlands you are allowed to give your well-wishes for…
Le chat qui rit
Lately I have been wanting to draw and paint a bit more realistically, but I have been stuck on finding…
Zero to technicolour in 3… 2… 1…
These pencils are so much fun! They’re little firecrackers of pigment, and if you’re not careful in applying them, the…
Over the moon!
I got myself an early birthday present. It’s awesome. It’s a set of Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle pencils. They are…
The devil is in the details
So I’m casually painting in my little Moleskine sketchbook. It’s quite small, so it’s more of a doodling book. Just…
Against the light
Here’s a little trial painting in which I’m trying to set a scene against the light. First I painted the sky/background…
Depth and silhouette
Remember the painting I was working on? This is the one: I worked on it a bit more, adding in…
Space and watercolour
My latest painting is developing slowly. I’m trying to add focus with every step… but it’s not easy! I also…
Moving into colour dreams
My most recent paintings have been more dreamy than the ones I made in the beginning. When I started painting…
Tour de Fleece week 1
It has been a busy spinning week! And of course I had to work to (so inconvenient…). In the first…
Rainy days
This past month has been very, very rainy. Usually it doesn’t rain that much in Den Haag. Living next to…
Fluid silhouettes
Even though I haven’t posted about it, I have been painting a bit. Just not as much as before I…
Contrast
I have just had a very busy two weeks! I started on a new job last week, then went away…
Doodling
When you paint from a reference photo, you run the risk of sticking to the photograph completely instead of making…
Playing with paint
Usually when I pick up a new hobby I slightly obsess over it – well, obsess may be too big…
Flaming tulip
It’s tulip season in The Netherlands! The Keukenhof is open and the tourists are admiring all the different colours and…
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