“Art is magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds.” Leonora Harrington As always, you can download your free wallpaper from my dropbox. Its available in 2 sizes and there are 2 versions for your phone, too.
“Sometimes the painting takes over and goes where it pleases.” Elizabeth Cummings Well at least for me, that’s what happens all the time: I start a painting and a few strokes in it has its own personality and starts talking back to me 😉 Sometimes we have a good conversation and sometimes I have to …
Shantell Martin was a new name for me, until I listened to a Podcast episode of Creative Peptalk (my current obsession, I’m trying to listen to all 3 Million episodes). Shantell Martin is a choreographer but also a visual artist. She creates huge line drawings, often in front of a live audience. And in the …
Aloha friends! I’m back from my trip to Germany and wow that jetlag’s hitting me. It’s 7pm and I’m ready for bed, haha! For this month’s wallpaper I whipped out a painting I made a while ago, using gouache on handmade pink paper. After scanning the painting I looked for a quote in my art …
A change of perspective is all we need sometimes. And it’s easier said than done, that’s for sure, too. For me personally, painting is a good way to decompress, letting thoughts go. The more abstract it is (the painting process I mean), the easier it is to let go and to look at things from …
This quote really resonated with me. I have to remind myself to not always think of a camera angle when I’m painting but to paint just for painting’s and happiness’ sake. For those of you who follow my accounts on Instagram, you may have realized that I’m posting less in general and also less videos. …
Abstract artist Louise Fletcher has been such an inspiration for me during the month of May. I participated in her free “Find your joy” class and jumped right back into some abstract paintings which I had abandoned for some time. It was so fun and so freeing to overpaint old stuff and freely create and …
Back in the backyard with leaf prints (surpriiiise haha). I also just received Peggy Dean’s new book “mindful sketching” which I absolutely love. The quote is from this book. It encourages you to enjoy and cherish the process of creating and rather than solely focusing on and obsessing about the end result. Download your free …
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April’s wallpaper features a bunch of prints from leaves foraged here in my backyard. I had so much fun with this printing technique that I might just have gone a lil overboard with the leaves 😉 For this reason, I’m offering you two versions of the wallpaper this month. One features an art quote, the …
The i’wi bird, also know as scarlet honeycreeper, has the most gorgeous bright scarlet red feathers. With its distinctive curved beak the i’iwi can get into lots of Hawaiian flowers to drink their nectar and act as pollinators for lots of native plants. The i’iwi population is threatened and conservation actions have been taken to …
