The Eagle
I have been playing with texture, patterns and negative space. Oh and yes: color! So much fun, I just love making monoprints... :-)
Back to monoprinting
About 7 years ago I first discovered monoprinting, using a gel plate and working in an abstract style. And even though later my main focus became making portraits, it always kept calling...
Work in progress – continued
This is the next phase of the work in progress I wrote about in my last post. I'm still exploring and loving all the new possibilities that the depth of the texture bring. The size of the artwork is 80x80…
Texture art – large scale
I'm so grateful that the holidays finally give me more time to paint! You might have noticed that recently I'm all into texture art (see my last paintings Stone Circles and Sun Circles) and now I wanted to take it…
More texture art
And so I'm continuing my journey into texture. It's so interesting to work with the depth and patterns that the texture creates! This artwork turns out to be the counterpart of the Stone Circles artwork I made yesterday. This time…
Art Fair Exhibition
Just returned from the Art Fair at Mennorode in Elspeet, the Netherlands, where I and 13 other artists participated in a week-long art exhibition showing paintings, photographs, glass jewelry and more. I was there with some of my most recent…
Painting on a Gelli Print – new video
This is my second video on YouTube. It's a time-lapse video showing how to use paint and colored pencil to create a figure of a female dervish on a previously made monoprint (gelli print). The artwork is called Dancing Into…
Dancing into Mystery
This new artwork depicting a whirling female derwish is called Dancing into Mystery. I am still inspired to paint derwishes! It's an image that to me symbolizes a deep, mystical experience, whirling in the here and now, the union with…
Painting on a Gelli Print – video
I created my first video on YouTube, woohoo! :-D It's a time-lapse video showing how to use paint and colored pencil to create a female figure on a previously made monoprint (gelli print). The artwork is called I Carry You In…