A relaxing rest holiday of #sketching and reading.

We went to the lovely small and quiet Greek Island Astypalaia where I spent my days reading,sketching,swimming in the blue sea, enjoying local fresh made foods , being 'unplugged' all the time . Here a few of my sketches I did in my small square  traveljournal #Global Art Materials  . I use my travel #Winsor&Newton watercolour pallet with 35 colours , pencil, #Staedtler pigment liner and my  #Lamy fountainpen and two #TWSBI fountainpens. #Atramentis Black and brown ink and #Kaweco palm green inkt.

I hope you all can enjoy a wonderful 'unplugged' holiday either on a lovley spot or even at home .

#traveljournal, #sketchbook, #sketching, #watercolour, #drawing, #art, #Greece, #Astypalaia

A sad and life-changing reason why I wasn't posting on my blog lately #sketching "sketchbook #watercolour #pencil #drawing

The last six months were all in sign of care taking of my Mom, after a fall she couldn't live on her own anymore , for her ,a very strong and idependent woman , career woman 'avant la lettre',  this was very hard to accept , we , my sister and I, visited her every day for the last six months to make her life as comfortable as possible but unfortunately we had to say goodbye to her after she passed away in March and it couldn't be more characteristic her funeral was on 'International  Women's Day' . The grief is hard , the emptiness huge ,and step by step I try to crawl gently out of the dark hole and get back to my daily routine of making art . Here some of my sketches I made in my small sketchbook.

I hope you have something to keep you going and remember life is short so enjoy every minute of it !

Pen and Ink small sketchbook. #sketchbook #artjournal #dailysketch #watercolour

I received again a box filled with little treasures from my best friend Ester https://esterwilson.blogspot.be/ and one of them is this small 'Pen & Ink' sketchbook (5-1/2"x3-1/2" - 14x9 cm) . The paper is thin ,acid free and actually not suited for watercolour but I just love to use watercolour on this kind of paper as it gives a lovely crispy sound to the paper when you turn the page , real sketchbook users know what I mean by this , yeah it can be a bit weird our artist mind but nothing wrong with that if you asks me . I couldn't wait till my other sketchbook was finished so I just jumped in wright away .

I hope you had as much fun as I with the presents you received for Christmas.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

As every year I've made my own Christmascard. This time I looked in the amount of old family letters for a letter related to this time of the year , I decided to make a collage and drawing.

I hope you all can enjoy a peaceful and joyfull time with friends and family.

Food drawing and sketching .#sketch #sketchbook #daily art #food #fountainpen #watercolour

I used my larger Hahnemuehle water color sketchbook (30x22 cm /11x8 inch) to make a few sketches around the subject "food" , I love to do this when I have a few moments left between other tasks or when I am not in the mood to paint .I used my Lamy Pen with sepia waterproof inkt and watercolour.

I hope you all do some fun stuff in moments you don't want to be to serious .

Do you think there will still be enough snow for our childeren? #oilpainting

A new 'Tiny Adventure' (small) painting about global warming / climate change.
Every year we have to see how the snow borders are changing.

"Do you think there will still be enough snow for our childeren?
Oil on canvas 18 cm x 13 cm ( 5x7 inch)
I love to make these smaller paintings but I have to admit it is certainly not easier than the larger ones but it gives me the opportunity to approach painting in a different way .
I hope you all have a beautiful day !
#oilpainting #winter #ski #wintersport #softcolours #climatechange #globalwarmingup #artwork #painting #people #snow