Waterlillies

Oh love the water surface with all those insects! Not that I love insects... YUK but when the do not come too close to me i like to watch them. I won't paint them because I think they ruin my painting. And I do want the attention goes to the flowers. the colorful parts in the painting have to be the eye catchers and not the black little spots with 4/6/8 legs or something...

Made it on a 40x40 centimeters canvas board with wooden frame.

Started with the water, wet in wet. Dried for 1 hour, and then did the 'leaves' also wet-in-wet and made the shadows with pruissian blue, ( love this hue! ) and finnaly ended up with making the flowers of course used the wet-in-wet method!

Two blogs for being creative.

A while ago I started another blog where I dump all sort of posts. Also posts with things I make. I am going to use this blog ( http://kimmonster.blogspot.com ) only for my paintings and inspiration. 

The other blog http://kimmonsterhowto.blogspot.com is for everything else. :)

So if you are curious and want to know why I don't post that much on this blog, you have to look at the other one!

In two long weeks my vacation starts! Then I am going to paint like crazy!!

For now on I have to focus on getting my Propedeuse  ( finish the first year? ) 

xoxo

Lovely

Got some new inspiration for paintings!!!
unfortunately Fieps didn't made the next day, he was too weak :( It was so said for his or little brother or sister! Now Coco has a new 'friend', a reindeer cuddly toy and a mirror which doesn't talk back, but coco is in love with it!
I hear happy quacks all the time :) Coco is doing well!!

The next picture is just a perfect composition for a new painting :)
Soon I will have the time to start with it!

Way tooooo busy!

Know the feeling? Sometimes I really think I do way to much at once, it's my own fault because i want to do way toooooo much! But i didn't paint for a while .. Unfortunately!

I did make some sketches in my dummy.. these days I take it with me every day and sketch everything what's coming up in my mind or sight ;)

When there is almost no one in my sight in the train i sketch what I see. the first one is my little sister standing to a train door ( between compartments ). I am not going to try to sketch when there are people I don't know in front of me because i think they go crazy. I think it's the Dutch temperament. They already look silly when you are sketching something out of your mind!

The left one is a part of a roof from 3ME Faculty in Delft, during practicum i sketched this one. It looks like a roof from an aold factory only new, if you get it. haha

Im picking up Snoopy (middle one) tonight so she can stay at my place yippie :)! I hope when she's staying at my place she wouldn't be that lonely, because of the other 2 died last month or some earlier.

Repaint

A long time ago I put this two cuties away because one of the right corners had a bow ( ? / bend? ) in it. Found a solution for it but not the time, until today.
My dad helped me to make a new back for the frame on the reverse side.
And also made a big enough hole in it so you don't need any other stuff like pins or wire to hang it up! I do have more painting like this... so i need more wood!
the painting only gained some weight hehe like 3 KG each! Only thing left to do is repaint the wood at the sides!

Green it is

My newest painting! I had to make a big painting and I had to make some animals. Last time I did a chicken and sheep so I decided to make some cows.

First I wanted to make my background a dark red color, maybe not the best decision because the cows can be compared with meat. Grass is green and so is this painting.

Sneak Preview I & II

Found some OLD pictures!

Found the sim-card of my old mobile, and saw all those old works of me! also how i made my fisrt big one :) no easel and really no idea how to use everything hahaha.

I think it was 2006 os maybe 2005! haha, changed a lot since then..

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Bèèèh

Used again a 30x30cm canvas, last time i really lied the technique, so I decided to go on with it!
I want to make a whole new series of this kind of technique :) I like the number of colors used in the painting. ( painting is mirrored by my mac!! )

Didn't know how a sheepshead looked like, so I needed to find a side view of a sheep.
and used a bit of my own imagination so I put another ear on it, otherwise the painting would be dull.

When the background dried up, I started with the big lines like the contour of the head and the upper ear.
then madde the nose ( which wasn't that handy because I'm right handed so I had to be careful with the other side )

I think the neck has like three layers because i couldn't agree with the color palette haha! But now it's not  tooooo colorful as before, it was way to red, so it looked like a dead one.. hmm not good! but now it's more appropriate I think.

Almost 2000 viewers! WHOOHOO

How impressive! Never thought it would go that fast :)
Yesterday I started another blog with how I made my own clothes. I don't do it very much, but if I start I can't stop.. as always hahaha

Of course I'll post the most things on this blog because I love to paint more then making my own clothes, and my easel is always ready for me and the sewing machine not .. It takes so much time to put everything together when you want to use a sewing machine, so don't worry. I'll stick to the paintings!


xoxo

Easter Feelings

With this nice weather i had to paint! Im not scheduled for today so i decided to make some homework, shop a little and paint !!
I used two different methods. you see the background is more egal, this is because i use a lot of water.. so it looks like aquarel. The chicken is also made with acrylics only with much less water! the paint needs to dry very long because its a huge layer. I also used non realistic colors in the feathers, like Ultramrine Violet ands Pthalo Blue. for the lightning i used Azo Yellow Light ( all Talens Amsterdam )
of course I used Black and white ( Galeria by Windsow and Newton) and water haha
the background is made with white and one of my fav colors : greyish blue

blue

 blue bottles, only made with the camera of my mac.. so the colors are a bit different then in reality. they're much more darker and much more bright. ill try to post one made by my nomal camera if i dont forget.. Now heading home for new canvas and to get some black paint! totally forgot it last time.

Time to paint!

Yes, the time has come, no more exams :D and sleeping at my boyfriends place with a huge dining table, so i could paint all the way :) and dont have to clean everything up. love it.

here the beginning of tonight! im really tired of today, so i hope ill wake up early tomorrow to go on with this cutie canvas 30x30cm

started with Cobalt Blue Hue, and some prussian blue pthalo. mixing with white.. and you get a glass effect! Yes i use different brands of paint, because some brands dont have the color i want.. I always stick at Windsor and Newton, Reeves and Talens Amsterdam
The paintingshirt im wearing is from Talens :) got it at the competition for TalensPalet!

Sunday Cuties

 

Today I Finished the painting with the carps, The edges are painted black so it looks like a frame.
This two little ones, both 20x20cm are also painted today. They've the same composition but the colors make them so different. The new color I used for the first time : left one terra-cotta pot : is made with dark brown, red, orange and white. First red and white so you get pink, then mixed orange and brown with it..
Now the only thing I have to do is finding a place to hang them!
and for the next painting I want to make some poppies and more terra-cotta pots!

Fishies Part II

Ok, I admit, ITS SO DIFFICULT TO PAINT SOMETHING WHATS UNDER WATER LEVEL!
aaaarghrhrh! haha I'm sorry, but I just don't have the techniques yet to create the visual effect of water! I hope I will have it some day. Fish are very hard to paint.. I do like flowers more to paint haha so my next one will be some more floral! And no.. noooooo water plants !

I adjusted the color of the left fish, and tried to make the other fish a look-a-like. The thing which i like is the eye! i really love to make eyes. i don't know why but it gives a good feeling. An animal or something without a well painted eye, is a bad painted animal in first place. The eye makes something some more alive, and I think the eyes on this painting are the only things which are alive :P..

The painting isn't ready yet, i want to make the plants more realistic with some light fall on it, and a darker edge. but for now on, I'm happy with it and I hope my boyfriend is also happy!

Keep an EYE on my blog !

New Fav

It's a too long time I updated and painted! it's just not normal how busy i am with the Universit / work / boyfriend.. and really not myself.. I'm so relieved i have a week off next week! so I wanted to start this week good, with making a painting on Sunday eve! and I know myself, I just cant get enough so here I am at 0:05 AM updating my blog with my newest painting Which is still drying at my easel !!

I started another way this time, like i used to. first painting the foreground and then when it's dry more and more coloring the background. you see some reddish is still wet. I used the wet-in-wet technique to get the red-yellow contrast. I did NOT use white with red because the red would turn into pink! i did use a little white to make my yellow more soft, when you mix white wit yellow BEFORE mixing with red you will not get pink ;)

When the painting was still wet i couldn't wait to get started with the brown parts, i used black for the shadows and white with burned umber to get the lighter parts in it. I did the green leaves right away so the attachment of the leaves with the tree is a bit brown - looks more natural - i also used black and brown mixed in the leaves so the leaves wouldn't be too green.

This one is the result! i really like the blue background which follows the contours of the flowers.  I don't know for sure if i'm going to make highlights on the flowers with white linings.. I'm going to sleep one night about that! and that's why my name is still not on it! I surely want to paint one or two more paintings this week! especially when it takes the time this one took ! just a little more than 4 hours.

update!

I have to learn this week for my upcoming exams on thursday and friday.. So, i haven't got the time to paint! the next weekend I may start with a new idea. only that will be on Sunday because Saturday there's a party at our place!! I turned 21 last monday, and my sister is becoming 18 on February 24th! Whoohoo =D I am looking forward to it!  Until then, i maybe have to disappoint you with the news i wont update before the end of January ! I hope you will keep an eye on my blog.

Have a nice weekend!

New One

I want to make one little painting of our dog on a 20cmx20cm canvas, i'll put my alarm early tomorrow so I can start with it before i have to get busy with my homework!

I think im going to make one of him enface :) you'll see tomorrow!
tonight im going to the movies with karim and friends.. and yes. to NEW KIDS TURBO

wanted : TIME

my mind is exploding with ideas for paintings. In particular colorful paintings! I want to make much more flower paintings and some colorful ones. maybe this week i'll start with a new one. The painting for TalensPalet2011 is still not ready, so i do 2 at a time.
I'll update when i do so.

also wanted : oliebollen (if you dont know : Google it, because in english it really sounds strange " oilballs?!?!" ) hahaha!
Happy new year to you!

making some progress

Long time ago! I'm so busy with the university, and the only time i can paint is on monday evenings. i quit with my lessons on mondays so i hope i have more spare time to paint.

this is going to be the painting for TalensPalet 2011. I still have so much to do about it, i want the bikini to have white dots on it, like a real red bikini with white  dots. and i have some good ideas for the sandy background, i want to make it some more mysterious, i hope it will work!  i also want the body gets some more light on the belly and breasts, so the contrast will be better. this pictures is taken with my phone, so it doesn't represent the reality. the format is 100x70 cm !

have a nice christmas :)

Light - Dark

I recently changed my room and also my paintings. I've changed some colorful paintings for some more black and white. Next week i'll have to pick up 10 paintings of me at the 'Vijverhof'. I really don't know where to hang them! in two weeks I also have to pick up three paintings from 'Lancelot Wonen'.. I NEED MORE WALLS! haha.

Im still doubting about how to hang this painitng .. It's really nice vertically ( for the wallspace haha ) but horizontal is also nice! For now i think it's good as it is.

Tomorrow we're going to paint in the style of Charly Toorop (think of  mad faces ).So when i've got the time, I will update my blog again! But it's a very busy week so  I don't promise anything.

Tried to make a portret

Girl 30x30cm

In the style of Kees van Dongen ( you can google him if you want ) Van Dongen uses very bright colors in a light/dark contrast. Dark backgrounds versus white skin of the woman. I also worked in layers as you can see on the left picture. I've seen just a few of his paintings and I noticed he paints the most of the time woman. Sad women with very big eyes. The color of the shadow is green or blue.. the contrast colors of the warmer ones. I mixed it up with my own colorful style and this is the result ! (right one! )

TalensPalet 2011

I just signed up for the Talens Palet competition 2011 !
It's a painterscompetition with a theme, and it's my first time to do a sort of competiton.
The theme is about a book of Tommy Wieringa, Caesarion. I don't know the book haven't read it, maybe I will, but not anytime soon! I've so much work to do !!But I'm very curious what im going to paint! Don't know yet .. but Im going to start with making some sketches. If you like to take a look at the site of TalensPalet, you can look here : www.talenspalet.nl   ( dutch ).

I really like this kind of things that can get you to a higher level in you're working skills and how you think.
We shall see! I'll upload the sketches i want to make, soon.
Maybe if you're interested in this competition too, you must sign in!

Au revoir!

The result : more blue

Goose 100 x 70 cm

I finished the painting yesterday evening. you see I've used much more blue in the shadows. I also started a new painting with wine ( 60 x 80 cm ). the new painting won't be ready for teh exposition, so I have to use an older painting.  Now I have to learn for an upcoming exam at Thursday. Hope i'll pass!

Painting in Progress

 I had a painting I wanted to do over. I got stuck, so I decided to make a new painting! I still need a painting for the next exposition at 'Aswa keukens', but the themes for that expositions were wine and French landscapes. I really do not like landscapes ( I tried two times before but it won't work with me). the other option was wine, but i im not so into still life at the moment. So i came up with these gooses! I get a fench feeling.. don't you ;)
On the first painting you can see my old painting ( a chair on a porche .. )

Trying out a new style

Recently, I wanted to try out some new ways of using paint. I wanted to make a few paintings with bigger lines. And wit reflections on glass which aren't realistic. Our theme at the paintingclass was Picasso and wine. I chose wine.

Glass with lemon 50x50 cm

Two Wine 40 x 40 cm 

Although, the color purple and dark red don't match.. When you put them next togheter on a white wall, you'll see everything is possible.

Cobalt blue hue

 A while ago, someone asked me if I could make one painting for them with a specific color. Since then I used the color much more often. Cobalt blue. I like the color blue, especially comined with black. So i made them a painting ( 150 x 100 if I remember it well ) with Cobalt blue and black! this is the result :

You do not see it on this picture, but the black background is '3D'. you can feel the background. When there's light on it you will see the shadows of the background. I like it.

My favourites

Trees 50x60cm

100x70cm 

 Magnolia's 70x200cm

more paintings!

one of our cats Tommy

Chef

I have more 'try-outs' like this lighthouse. I wanted to make some clouds, but i discovered the painting with only some clouds was too boring so i made a lighthouse on it! I love the red/blue contrast.

The still life with only one color is one of my paintings i made at my paintingclass. I have a few french water botles at home, and i wanted to have one on a painting! the paqinting is 40 x 50 i guess.

A few moths ago i painted live in an old historical building in Dordrecht. One of the paintings is the old fence. i think its
quite succesful.

A still life : this painting is made layer for layer. ( called 'glaceren'in dutcth
I don't know how to spell it in English).

Two little fishies i made for my new born nephew Joaz ! I hope he likes it hihi