Alcohol ink course

This month I am taking Karen Walker's landscape class in alcohol inks. She has some marvelous classes with lots of video's, encouragement and inspiration! If you are interested in following one of her classes please  click here.

This week the focus is on Forest and Water and so far I have finished one painting. This one is from the Tropical Waterfall exercise, using an image shared by Robyn Lovelock on PaintMyPhoto http://paintmyphoto.ning.com/photo/waterfall-8.

I am now moving on to the next exercise on reflections. I have printed an image I took from a very Dutch landscape about a year ago, when I was on a painting holiday in National Park De Wieden in the Netherlands. I am very curious how it turns out in alcohol inks. To be continued....

More Spring in alcohol inks!

This week I have been on a roll! I created 5 alcohol ink paintings in total. All in the Spring time theme. I do love Spring.

This morning I finished an alcohol ink painting of the magnolia in bloom. I started it yesterday. And this afternoon I tried working with the Pinata inks. I love the vibrant colors. The ink is also easier to handle, it doesn't flow as wild as the Rangers does. Certainly a good buy!

Magnolia - 7"x 11" (18 x 28 cm)

Daffodils - 6 3/4" x 8 1/4" (17 x 21 cm)

Poppy in alcohol inks

While waiting for my new supply of alcohol inks and Yupo paper, I created this lovely poppy. The size of the painting is 7" x 7". I started with orange ink to create the poppy, followed with yellow ink to create the individual petals of the flower. A blob of denim and eggplant in the middle. The background is made with several greens and stream, washed down with solution. The background was tooooo bright :-) but now it looks perfect.

For sale in my Etsy shop!

Spring is in the air!

I has been a while since I posted on my blog. I have been busy! Not only with my day-to-day job but also with creativity. In March I though a workshop Mixed Media Canvas at the Volksuniversiteit in Soest (Netherlands). 10 ladies created a beautiful canvas to take home with them. I love how these canvasses all start out the same and with the use of the same techniques, they all end up completely different!

Next season I will be teaching 2 workshops at the Volksuniversiteit Soest, a 2-evening workshop on How to start an art journal and a 2-evening workshop on How to create a portret in mixed media. When the site is ready for registration, I will let you know!

And then, after some busy weeks, I went on a marvelous trip to Andalusia (Southern Spain) for a week. So much inspiration, beautiful things and great people. I am back to work again, but must say I have some problems adjusting... ;-).

This week I ordered a few more bottles of alcohol ink, some new colors and a new brand, Pinata. I am happy to say they are now available in the Netherlands as well, at the same shop I order my Yupo paper. But I could not wait.... so I started to create some daffodils, spring is in the air!

Selling prints

I am selling prints of my artwork on Fine Art America. I have started to upload some pastel paintings. Please check it out on FineArtAmerica

New mixed media mosaic

A few weeks ago Nicola from the UK sent me a message on Etsy asking me if I would be willing to make a mixed media mosaic for her husband, who was born in the Netherlands. She would like to have some images included from the city he lived in. As I was telling her I could use any images she liked, she sent me pictures of her and her husband, of the kids and the cat. And I made her a mixed media mosaic. The size is 15 x 15 cms, 6"x 6"and is made on a mdf board.

I showed her the progress and she was very happy with it. I finished the piece yesterday and it is ready for shipping! I hope it will arrive before Valentine's day.

If you would like to have a mixed mosaic created just for you with you and your loved ones included in the mosaic, send me a message, I am happy to create one for you.

Unruly PaperArts blog

Today on the Unruly PaperArts blog my second article this month on image transfers. This time I am showing you image transfers with gel medium. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't... for my second attempt, I used images from a travel brochure in my art journal and I love how it turned out.

Check out the Unruly PaperArts blog for the full article.