How come you never go there?

...she wonders....

I'm starting a new series of small drawings. A combination of pen and airbrush. I'm not sure what will come out of it and about this first one. We'll see, right?

A good weekend to all of you!

How it went

Last saturday was the opening of the exhibition where one of my drawings is in.  There is not much to tell you: they did a nice job putting it up, there were lots of people and I was just happy that my drawing was doing fine, haha!  One more picture of an impression of the space which is really nice I think. 

the kindest of kisses

I made this drawing after visiting the zoo and I wanted to post it for last weeks drawing challenge "Nature" (check tinyWoolf!). Animals and humans are nature as well and I think we should be nicer to them and ourselves, but that is another story. This drawing gives me a calm and nice feeling and I wanted to post it anyway. Mostly because I need to be calm: I'm a bit nervous about this weekend. The exhibition where one of my drawing is opends on saturday...
I wish you all a good weekend and thank you for your comments on my last post. I hope this group picture becomes real;-)

drawing challenge

This weeks host for the drawing challenge is the lovely Nadine and her theme is "Nature". As I saw the invitation for this DC the first part of it was about our collective dream of meeting up and experiencing our weekly drawing challenge live! I was so exhited about this part and that Nadine really thought about it and wants to take it to the next level, that I made this drawing. I don't know you bloggers of the Dc in real live, but I imagine us meeting and having a wonderful time and this drawing could turn into a  group photo;-) I wasn't sure if should post this drawing because the theme is "nature" but then I just gave the girl in the middle a shirt with some colourful, abstract flowers!

Please go to the tinyWoolf blog for more nature, and have a good weekend!

plastic fantastic!

As I told you before I'm really having fun with the shrink-plastic at the moment. I posted the little magnets already and the bunny earrings. These are some other things I made: pendants and some more earrings. I like the simple way of drawing on it and then watch to see how it turns out in the oven. These are all for sale in my shop and there are some other products who have a 30% discount now.
Wish you all a good week!

drawing to the big city

happiness hit her, 150x230cm

Last week I found out that this drawing of me has been selected for an exhibition. I'm happy with that because it's in the city Den Haag in a well-known kind of gallery. The exhibition is called "Body in motion" and the funny thing is that it's about sport, hihi! The opening is in two weeks and I'll let you know how it turned out...
If you want to see all my drawings, click here.

me, myself and...

..a giraffe!
This is me about 12 years ago and in my dreadlocks-period, I was still in art school and I had to make something for photography class. We went to a bridge which is over a railway but at that time the railway was closed for trains;-)
We put a swing on the bridge and a ladder underneath it, beacause there was no way that I could get on the swing without a ladder. I put on my mother's wedding dress and started swinging. It was so much fun! My teacher was not impressed.... Anyway, I just found the pictures and the video about this project and wel.... suddenly this giraffe turned up....
Good weekend to you all!

think, think, think!

That's the question, right? I often drive myself crazy thinking too much and then there's this point where you just don't know what to do. But I like these guys: two old toys of mine;-) I like to play around with toys, drawing and quotes these days. This design you can also find on my society6 page as a shirt, bag and more...
I wish you all a good week!

drawing challenge

This weeks host for the drawing challenge is Norma and her theme is "farn". I thought about their big, green leaves and I immediately had to think about a girl holding a fan in front of her face. You know, like in the old days, haha! When it's really hot outside and you saw the women with an attitude blowing cold wind in their faces using a fan. Maybe it's because it's so hot over here at the moment that I had this idea while the theme is a plant....mmmm, that makes me think. Anyway, I just had to draw this girl, holding the leaves and some of the attitude is still there....

For more farn please go to the wonderful blog of Norma!

the winner and another go!

And the winner of the 2 magnets is Fados do lar! Congratulations and I will contact you for your address.

For those of you who didn't win: you have another chance at the facebook page of Atelier Spunk where I give these bunny-earings away! So if you want them: give it another go;-)

tiny give-away!

Because it is weekend and still very nice and sunny weather I thought it would be a good time for a give-away! I'm working on new stuff and I'm having fun trying. I'm drawing on shrink plastic and making new designs for jewellery. On the picture you can see a design already baked and finished and turned into magnets. This pair is really tiny so it's only a small gift. So if you have a fridge or so were these two would look cute, leave a comment! I'll pick a winner in the middle of next week and announce it on my blog.

Have a nice weekend!

hot like crazy

I want to dive in a swimmingpool, lake or in the sea! We had bad weather for such a long time, so I don't complain.... but I want a pool badly;-)
Wish you a good start in this week!

play my darling play

I just found my old 3D view-master! Do you remember them? If not, take a look at my new profile-picture;-) This week it's all about taking a little break, taking care of my shop, cleaning my studio a bit and that kind of things. And while doing that I found this wonderful vintage toy and I managed to take a sort of good picture of one of the images. I'll play a little bit more with my view master and wish you a good week!

grrrrr!

snapping necks and breaking balls, 150x100 cm

This is one of the paintings that are now hanging in a shop in a small town nearby my house. The owner is an older man who fell in love with my paintings as I had my open studio a few weeks ago. He sells jewelery and pairs of glasses in a very nice place. I ask him if he thought my paintings would fit and not scare his customers away, but he said that he wants something different for a change and that my work is perfect for that ;-) so 6 of paintings are gone for 2 months, including my tigers.
I wish you all a good weekend. I'll start mine as Little Red Riding Hood at my sister's birthday-theme-party...

finally...and sorry!

Finally some sun and I hope where ever you are there is some sun too! That inspired me to take a picture in my garden with my pink slippers and draw my feet in them;)

And sorry that I don't leave a lot of comments on your blogs at the time. At lot of stuff is happening and I have been busy. But even if I don't comment, I still take a look at what you're all doing.
I wish you all a nice week!

oh girl...

Last week I told you about my new love: drawing in photo's. That has already developed into something new, hihi! Besides the love for drawing I took my collection of small vintage toys, my collections of quotes and made it into something new, put it al together. And I can tell you: this makes me smile as well! Lets see what happens next week with all my love for things, mmm...

If you like it you can click here, I already made cards, t-shirts and prints out of 2 designs.

around the world

A few months ago The Great Roberto came up with an idea. He would start drawing on a card and send it to me. I continue drawing and send it to the next person. 5 Persons participated on this wonderful project and the fun thing was that all 5 of us started a card. So 5 cards were posted and started their journey around the world. This weekend I got my card back that I started and it was excited to see what the others had made of it.  I really enjoyed this project. People I only know because of their blogs, started something "real". I now have a card with drawings of 4 people around the world and I really like that... Thank you Roberto, Stefanie, Hedwig and Rossichka.      

On the back of the card we each wrote something to the drawing or just what came up into our mind, to start a story you maybe can read when seeing the drawing:

picture perfect...

...well, almost. I found a new love: drawing in my photo's. I always liked taking photo's, but I don't think I'm very good at it. And now I discovered Instagram. I don't know why, but putting my photo's out there this way, makes it easy and I just have so much fun doing it. And that is something I also discovered lately: I like making things that make me feel good, no "heavy art" work or girls with guns. And that is something new. I found out that I made this kind of art with a message as I personally felt good. Now I don't feel very good (but don't worry;-) and I want to make "feel good" stuff. Before this gets to much inside my head: if you want to see more photo's like this, click here.
And yes, that is me in the photo...

say what?

I want to show you the first two, new pieces of jewelery I made for my shop. They are made of wood and I drew on it. I want to make a series of them and they have all the same concept: words or a quote in combition with a drawing of an animal. I wanted these animals not to be very realistic, more funny or so... The words in the picture above mean "fuck happiness" which rhymes in dutch and is one of my favourites as I told you before over here. I must say I enjoy making these pieces and I like how they turned out. What do you think?

drawing challenge

This weeks host for the drawing challenge is Kristen and her theme is "Solstice". I think it's a beautiful theme and very well choosen for this time of the year. I had to think very hard what it meand to me, do I have traditions or mind sets with the changing seasons, do I have plans? Funny is that I always have to think about the word "midsummer" and country's like Sweden or Norway. Pictures of places where is doesn't get dark, dancing around tree's and fairy's, haha! I realized that I don't do anything special at this point of the year, only hoping that we get some kind of summer and a couple of nice days or even weeks! The last few years our summers in The Netherlands were really bad, before you knew it was already fall. We were happy with 6 days of sun! So for this solstice I dream of reading a good book while sitting in the grass, enjoy the sun and just let the time go by. Please give us some weeks of summer!

For more changing of the seasons please go the sunny spot (what a perfect name the blog has for this challenge!).