Great news!

Yes dear people, I have some great news! One of my paintings is selected to hang in an exposition the upcoming month in the central Library of Dordrecht! I'm so happy with this news! Since I know my starting date for my internship ( September 3rd ), I planned to paint a lot in these summer months. I'm not looking for an job so I can spent many hours with my dear acrylic tubes and pots.

The Exposition in the Library is about "Romantiek van A tot Z" [Romance from A to Z]. I was curious and sent a mail to the organisation of the expo with one of my paintings :) I don't have very romantic paintings, so I actually gave up, until today!

This one is the lucky one :

It's one from 2011, also one of my last finished paintings...oops!

The exposition is in the central library in Dordrecht :) [ Openbare Bilbiotheek ] from June 28th untill July the 28th. On the first of July all the artists will open the exposition during the huge book market here in Dordrecht [ 17e editie Dordtse boekenmarkt ].

Pen sketches II

Did not got the time to paint something on the carp canvas yet, but I did take the time to sketch during lectures and train next to crochet new scarfs! Experimenting a lot lately with different things :) but they are not always presentable or something haha!

some sketches with flowers, thinking of a new idea to 

paint in black white and grey hues.

Random girl looking upward & a sketch of my own hand, 

mention the K<3K at the right , I have the most adorable 

boyfriend in the universe :)

Made a picture from our sleeping cat Pippin ( left side )

sketched it from the photo and gave him a back :).

Ideas for the carp painting, the actual painting is supposed

to be whithout the bird ( reiger in Dutch).

This weekend is a busy one but maybe some time to do something at the background for the carp painting. Next weekend I'll be in Limburg, so no time to paint at all! GRRR

Really need some time.

New Carp

Yes, it is a long time ago, the courses I followed past block were terrible busy. But here I'm back again! Of course I did sketch some little things during travelling or lectures, but not with really with a WOW factor in it. Last weekend I started to finish the painting with the hair, and got an amazing tip via Twitter ( @Bigrobhcmf ) how to make to hair more attractive, because now I agree it is a whole 'one' tone color. I have to lighten it up, but did not take the time for it yet :)

I also started a new painting, with in my mind new flowers, some soft colors. But Karim said he would love to see another carp on a canvas, so I decided to combine those two ideas and make one 'flying carp through flowers'. Bit curious what turns out of this combination.

It's just only the sketch so I will show you one little part of the head of the carp and one flower detail.

It is sketched on a 50cm x 50cm square canvas, with a 3D side which is aproximately 3cm thick. I hope it will turn out great. I planned the colors for the background : turquoise or light blue, but it have to be a clear color. The flowers are like Lilies, white flowers with maybe some yellow or pink details and green & olive leaves. The carp will be in the same way as the two last carps I painted, with copper, grey hues, yellow hues, pink and black and white of course. If I hit the city before I start with painting the carp I will buy some gold for the carp too.

I hope to paint soon!

Pen sketches

Same here :) Girl with feathers, leaves and butterfly wings.

Fishies & crab

First flower sketches of this year, love to use black pen. [ blauwe druiven & madeliefjes ]

First flower sketches of the year - [ narcis & annemoon ]

Hope to paint soon :) maybe this weekend!

- finish the head and 1 edge

- finish the owl: have to do 1 edge

 -new one!

xoxo

update deer painting!

Bonjour all of you!

As you can remember I made a painting with a deer on it! It's hanging on a wall! not just my wall but at Wendy's place! I'm really proud of it and especially when I read the comments beneath the post on her own blog! She has an awesome blog with cute things, really love it!

Got a little bit curious? What are you waiting for hihi! 

--> http://www.twinstyle82.blogspot.com/ <--

xoxo

Busy

Really had no time to paint anything :( Last weeks were very busy! I do have a week off soon, so I will plan somedays to do nothing but painting haha! What I did do in the train travelling home or to the university was sketching.. I also did this during colleges. OOPS!

haha sometimes they are a bit weird.. but it's a sketch! I hope I will have my sketchbook filled up at the end of this semester :) Here are some of my newest sketches with pen.
I also love to draw with pencils, but somehow I can't scan them to my laptop, they're invisible! For one sketch I did use a photo of our cat ( the one with pippin on it). The rest is right away produced from my mind and fingertips!

Maybe i'll make some pictures of it with my camera.

Some bit else than my normal work, but I really like to do something while doing nothing actually.. like sitting in the train :)

Owlways

Just experimenting with the palette knives and a white owl :) what a combination! I think the owl needs just some more contrast in the wings, but the background is another big problem. If I look at the painting, a white background is not ' weird ' or something, but to plain, if you know what I mean..

At the moment I'm making the underground for the background, with kings blue. When I put white on it again with the knives it's maybe a cool effect. I will also start with a new layer on the head inlcuding the eyeballs :) now it's only some shadow

xoxo

Short overview!

What a noise coming from outside " thunder"! One of our cats is hiding in my room; at a place i could not imagine a cat fits there! ahhh..

This week I was very busy with my portfolio till Word wouldn't help me anymore :( couldn't save the recovery file and Word tripped again! luckily I saved the images in another map on my mac :) so i'm happy again! haha! I adjusted the perspective of the paintings with photoshop --> warp function! :) So here's an overview from some paintings of mine hihi! Just dropped them random in this post!

Still have to do more :) like the Carp painting!

But now it's time to bake some cake and make cookies for tonight!

Have a great New Years Eve !!! 

xoxo

Found some sketches of a course I did last year! From Friday on I will be at home again and will adjust the deer's nose. Hopefully I also have some time left to make some new (little) paintings! maybe something to do with Christmas or so!

Posted the sketches on www.kimmonsterportfolio.blogspot.com ! :)

Etching : Made in my last year of the secondary school

Photoshop and pensketches

Stayed at home today and started with a pen sketch inspired by a girl holding a camera. Worked it out with black ink pens, scanned the sketch and adjusted it with Photoshop CS5

New Cow

This way of painting always makes me happy! Don't have to look close in detail, but just paint and go with the brush!

I put on the acryl whitout looking how much was on my brush. You can see the different edges, and really feel them.

Waited for a too long time to make another cow! I love to paint in this wet in wet method, with clear colors. Used prussian blue with black for the dark parts, Sky blue light, king's blue and another blue ( can't remember the name ) and cobalt blue for the white parts. the 'warm' parts are quinacridone rose and transperant red light or something in that way :)

My mum already hung this one in the kitchen, even don't got the time to varnish it! haha

Hanging!

A while ago we went to my cousin and niece for my cousins birthday! And yes! One of my paintings is hanging over there!!

Had to take a picture of it!
Today I will go on with the deer :)

xoxo

Happy boyfriend

The varnish is reflecting because of the flashlight :)

Karim made a quick replica before my parents arrived at home, so they wouldn't miss the painting... You had to see this a4 paper with 2 fishies! CUTE!

Hihi LOL

xoxo

Time left!

This weekend I'll start with a new painting!