Ready for opening night!

Yesterday evening my sister helped me with getting ready for the local annual art show starting tonight. We had a great evening, sorting all the paintings and hanging them on my 4 meter space. Lots of paintings, but I like how the wall turned out. I am ready for the opening, tonight at 8pm!

If you are interested (and live nearby) the art show is at the WVT in Bilthoven, from December 18, 2013 to January 2, 2014. With opening hours every day (even on Christmas). There is lots to see, paintings, sculptures, ceramic, jewellery, etc.

Getting ready for the local art show

It has been a few weeks since I posted anything on my blog. I was so busy with work, life and getting ready for the annual local art show. The show starts this Wednesday and my sister will help me on Tuesday evening with getting things ready. I have selected all the work I want to take with me, and all the art work is matted and framed and ready to be hanged.

The mixed media paintings are framed in a 40 x 50 cm frame. I love how they turned out, they look so much nicer and professional in a frame.

The pastel drawings are also done.

And this is one of the boxes I am taking with me. I have the 2 mixed media paintings, 14 30 x 40 cm frames with pastels, alcohol ink paintings and monoprints. And in the bag are 4 23 x 23 cm poppy paintings in alcohol ink. I hope the show goes well. I will post some pictures from the opening night on Wednesday!

New YouTube video!

I just uploaded a new video on YouTube. How to create a mixed media canvas in 10 steps. Check it out!

Working on a new YouTube video

This week I have been working on a new YouTube video. The pictures are taken, the canvas is fnished and now I just have to put it together and publish it. It will be a video on how to create a Mixed Media Canvas in 10 steps. Here is the end result.

And more flowers in alcohol ink

This week I have been working on some more flowers in alcohol ink. I love blue flowers but had some problems with the background. It was too messy, then too dark, and now I am ok with it. Love the orange and blue combination.

More alcohol ink

Two more paintings with alcohol ink. The first one is for the Beginners course with Karen Walker. This week's subject is masking and lifting. The anemone was made with pouring the ink on the Yupo paper and lifting the ink with alcohol to create more shapes. I also used my Promarkers to get some more detail in the center.

 



 

And this painting was done on my new A4 Yupo paper that I bought in the Netherlands (Yippie!). Lots of pouring and letting the ink flow, with a few lifted details. I am not sure about the vase. I posted the picture on Facebook and everyone loved it, but I am still not sure...

Video on YouTube from Evelyn

One of my art friends, Evelyn Havertz from Germany has posted her first art-how-to video's on YouTube. You can find her under the name of Evelynsdreaming and here is one of the video's. She makes lovely backgrounds for art journaling and other projects. Check it out!

Journaling

First of all; this week I had more then 1000 views of my art video's on YouTube. WOW.... more then a 1000 views, that is a lot!! Thank you all who watched (and hopefully enjoyed) my video's. For the readers who have not yet watch the art video's, here is the link to the latest video:

http://youtu.be/INw8R-5h7rg

And this week I have been working in my art journal. I saw a quote on Pinterest; words that matter. Love the quote and I made a page using the quote, it took me almost a week. I started with gesso, some selfmade paper (paper sprayed with Dylusions ink and stencils) and another layer of gesso. Then I made the cirkels, with markers, but also with ink. And added some more color with my Neocolors II and added some more cirkels before putting the words into the cirkels.

Creatiefbeurs in Bilthoven

For my Dutch readers:

Morgen (zaterdag 20 april 2013) sta ik op de Creatiefbeurs bij de WVT in Bilthoven. Een beurs vol hobby's, creatieve kadootjes en inspiratie. De beurs is van 11.00 tot 16.00 uur op de Talinglaan 1 te Bilthoven.

http://www.vvsowvt.nl/cms/

New art journal pages

I am not sure if I already showed you the blue art journal pages. The background is done with ink and the Tim Holtz flourish mask and the numbers stencil from Crafters Workshop. Finished with some cirkel stamps and a text stamp. The bird is painted with watercolors on deli paper and collaged to the page. Deli paper becomes transparent when you glue it with gel medium. The dragonfly is an image I found on the internet.

And I also made another page. The background is sprayed with Dylusions blue (London Blue) and the light green. I used stencils from Crafters Workshop. The peacock is painted on deli paper.

New video on YouTube!

I have uploaded a new video on YouTube. This time I show you how to make a Mixed Media Canvas with a great background and with collage.

New Mixed Media video on YouTube!

I just uploaded another Mixed media techniques video on YouTube. In this video I show you have to make lovely mixed media backgrounds with butterflies. Check it out!

Mixed Media Art Journal pages - video

I just uploaded another video on YouTube. This time I show you how to make 2 mixed media pages in your art journal with white and black gesso, stencils, acrylic paints, rubber stamps, ink and images.

New YouTube video

I have uploaded a new video, of the process of how to make Quick and Easy Mixed Media backgrounds. Check it out.

Lazy day

I have been making some more ATCs for the Valentine athon on ATCsforall and traded almost all of them.

And I have some other news. The polymer clay tiles workshop from March the 14th is full! If you have not gotten round to register, let me know. I am planning another one later this year, besides the one I will teach at the Volksuniversiteit Soest in November. The workshop for the Volkuniversiteit Soest is a 2-evening workshop and preliminary scheduled for the 7th and 14th of November.

And I am also working on a new video on how to create some art journal pages. Watch my channel!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! I am creating some Valentine ATCs for the Valentine's Day athon on atcsforall.com and have been making a little video of how I created the first ATC. Here is the link to the video on YouTube.

Second video is uploaded!

Hello there! I just uploaded my second video to YouTube. Another video on how to create Mixed Media backgrounds, this time using acrylic paints, Dylusions ink spray and gesso. I hope you like it!

Working on a new video

Today I am working on a new video. On how to make the lovely background as shown in these ATCs.

My first video

I have uploaded my first video on YouTube. I am showing how to create lovely mixed media backgrounds for ATCs, journal pages and other creative projects. In this video I show how to use a mask or a stencil. Take a look and let me know what you think!