September 4, 2022 What started early July 2022, is now done: the Drawing America summer course with Jennifer Gennari has been completed. And here it is, the result of many, many hours of painstakingly following the method of the old masters. Normally done in oil, but I have never shied away from a challenge, so this portrait was… Read More »
August 8, 2022 Since 2010, this handsome tiger named ‘Ustad’ a.k.a. T24, has killed several villagers and park managers in northern India. He is no longer living in the wild, but inhabits the Sajjangarh zoo in Udaipur, India. I found him incredibly inspiring to paint. Ustad is not your regular tiger, if there ever was such a thing…… Read More »
August 3, 2022 Today I dropped off four of my paintings in Waterloo, Ontario. The location is a cute little gallery named ‘The People’s Gallery’, that is part of a well-stocked artstore, on 91 Caroline Street. I wish we had an Artstore like that in Milton! I depend on regular arts and craft stores for my general supplies… Read More »
July 26, 2022 I am currently busy with an interesting summer course. It will take me right to the end of August so not many chances to do other than the homework. I will of course share the results when it is all done. I can tell you that it looks promising at this time, but we are… Read More »
July 11, 2022 I wish I could claim that this was based on one of my own photographs… but it is not. I took a series of phone pictures during a television documentary about the North Pole a while ago, as inspiration for a future painting. The other day, when I was playing around with paint pouring, the… Read More »
July 9, 2022 A good ten years ago I had the good fortune to spend 3 years in Bermuda, when my husband was temporarily employed on that beautiful archipel of islands in the Atlantic Ocean. During my stay, I became a part of a small art group and had a lot of fun playing around with (mainly) watercolours.… Read More »
July 8, 2022 Which do you like better? A realistic rendering of a subject or an abstract one? Have a look at these two pictures and tell me which of the two peacocks resonates most with you. One is a large 24:24 inch mounted canvas of a peacock, with some irridescent paints. It was a study for a… Read More »
July 5, 2022 It was pouring art in my yard this Canada weekend – literally! Pouring paint has become really popular recently. The results are often abstract, which is fairly new for me. So I need your help to find out what it is that YOU see in these two new artworks… so that I can come up… Read More »
June 16, 2022 In the last few days I felt like doing some small projects. I am getting ready for a new large wildlife portrait of a feathered friend. So I decided to get my brushes wet with some small bird projects and practice for it. My photo archive contains so many bird photographs, that I had trouble… Read More »
June 15, 2022 I recently vacuumed and organised my artspace, so that I would have a clean start after my recent artshow. Now the studio was safe again for the cats. They love to come to the basement, but I hardly ever see them. No idea what they are up to. But today was different. Suzi, our ginger… Read More »