Birds & Poetry

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Currently exploring bird paintings & portraits in various media.

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I think I'm going to call it finished. Emily Meta

I think I'm going to call it finished. Emily Metalskin in a 3-hour pose organized by Judith Yaws. The session was inspired by a photograph of Joel-Peter Witkin, a genius photographer whom I hadn't heard of before that session. Emily and Judith are an equally genius duo, the set and composition were just perfect! Thanks again to both of you! 😘

If you swipe through the images in this post you can see various stages. Some things I wasn't happy with, so I replaced them collage-style. Somehow Witkin's pics give me the impression of staged collages anyway, so I thought it would fit the inspiration. 😉 It's a mixed media piece, mostly watercolors (the Daniel Smith @danielsmithartistsmaterials ones), black ink, gouache, and black and white markers. Some darkblue tissue paper (thanks @upcrate for wrapping our artmaterials in various colored papers - I always keep them for collages 😉) was also involved in the making of this artwork.

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One from yesterday's sessions with Beatriz, organi

One from yesterday's sessions with Beatriz, organized by the wonderful Judith Yaws, who kept me extremely productive since last Saturday, starting with a life drawing marathon and then daily sessions (yes, multiple ones every day) for World Art Week. 🙂 You can still join in tonight. There will be 3 (!) 2-hour sessions with a bunch of awesome models for one donation. Check out her linktree at @judithyawslife. Romy @romys_art_journal, didn't you want to try out Zoom life drawing sessions? Today's a good opportunity for that.😉

This one is drawn with a pencil from my #scrawlrbox. I found that #blackwing pencils really are the best. They just glide over the paper, it's pure joy. The color accents were done with Schmincke super granulating watercolors.

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When @albertvoorhorst and I had our joint drawing

When @albertvoorhorst and I had our joint drawing session yesterday, I went for a #DrawThisInYourStyle challenge by Ama @greyishteal. Found it in Berhard Sombret's @bernardsombret weekly DTIYS compilation. Merci beaucoup, Bernard, for finding all those cool challenges! 🙂 I was really drawn to this red café sign. Funny thing is, I decided pretty early on that I would leave out that huge street lamp, cause my focus was that red sign, and I didn't want that lamp to interfere with it. But when I had finished I noticed that I left out the large signboard on the green wall as well. My mind had totally blocked it. 😂

Painted it on artisanal cotton rag paper (in my Artway Indigo sketchbook @artwayltd), with the my new super granulating watercolors from Schmincke , some other watercolors as well, Unipin fineliners and brushpens, and the @turnercolourworks ’s Acryl Gouache I recently had in my #upcratebox.

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Just learned that today is national pencil day, na

Just learned that today is national pencil day, national as in the UK only maybe? Doesn't matter. 😉 I think this #selfportrait from October 2020 is probably the only pure colorpencil drawing I made. I've been using them in combination with other media since, but didn't quite get the hang of using them as a sole tool. In case you're wondering, that blue thing on my head is my Superman tee. 😂😂😂

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Another one from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedr

Another one from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedrawing life drawing session inspired by Vincent van Gogh last Saturday. Our model that night was Naomi @naomigrq. The drawing was done my 6 mm Pilot Parallel Pen filled with permanent black carbon ink, and the sunflower was colored with Japanese watercolors.

Great evening again, thanks so much for organizing the session, Helen, and Naomi for being such an expressive model. 😘

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One from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedrawing li

One from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedrawing life drawing session inspired by Vincent van Gogh last Saturday. Our model that night was Naomi @naomigrq. The drawing was done my 6 mm Pilot Parallel Pen filled with permanent black carbon ink, and the sunflower was colored with Japanese watercolors.

Great evening again, thanks so much for organizing the session, Helen, and Naomi for being such an expressive model. 😘

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Another one from Friday's Käthe Kollwitz inspired

Another one from Friday's Käthe Kollwitz inspired session with the amazingly talented Emily Metalskin @emilymetalskin. Judith @judithyaws with her project @lifefiguredrawing hosted the very touching and emotional, yet so relevant for our times session.

This one was graphite pencil only, an Artgraf water-soluble one. Without any water added in the end. I think 't e rawness comes across better this way.

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One from yesterday's Käthe Kollwitz inspired sess

One from yesterday's Käthe Kollwitz inspired session with the amazingly talented Emily Metalskin @emilymetalskin. Judith @judithyaws with her project @lifefiguredrawing hosted the very touching and emotional, yet so relevant for our times session.

This one was done with a black watercolor pencil, a water-soluble charcoal pencil from Artgraf, neon yellow from Kissho Japanese watercolors, and the blue from Daniel Smith's Primatek watercolor range.

Thanks Emily and Judith for giving your all to make such precious sessions possible! ❤️ 😘😘

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Found my new upcrate box in the mail yesterday. Ye

Found my new upcrate box in the mail yesterday. Yeah! Really like the colortheme of this box. The topic for this month' battle is miraculous creatures. Made me think of fancy birds. 😉 So here's my take on the battle theme, a secretary bird family portrait. 😂 You're only allowed to use the materials of the box for the battle entry. I would have added some other materials too otherwise. If you swipe you see what was in the box (one item I didn't use for this pic missing). As the box contained a watercolor sketchbook (pretty nice 230g paper, though I think you can only use one side of each sheet for painting) I might do more fancy bird portraits in the next weeks.

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Two from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedrawing fu

Two from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedrawing fundraiser life drawing marathon last week (March 9, 2022). These are two 5 minute poses of Helen herself, inspired by Picasso's Guernica, drawn with two of my Pilot Parallel Pens, one filled with colored ink, the other with permanent black carbon ink.

It was a great evening, all the donations go to Red Cross Ukraine. Thanks so much again to Helen for organizing this event and to all the models that took part. It's so important to send out some light in dark times like these. 😘😘😘🌻💙💛

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Helen Roeten @helenroetenlifedrawing has kindly or

Helen Roeten @helenroetenlifedrawing has kindly organized a fundraiser life drawing marathon for tonight (March 9, 2022). 9 models, 1 donation that will go to Red Cross Ukraine. Session starts at 5pm CET (4pm UK time). Would be great if any of you could join in as well. Please contact Helen directly for donation info and Zoom link. Hope to see you tonight! 🙂 💛💙💛💙

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That's the second monotype I did yesterday. Anothe

That's the second monotype I did yesterday. Another abstract landscapes. For this one I used oil colors instead. Totally different feel to it. I was astonished as to how well oils would work on a 170g drawing paper, one that is intended for sketches and drawings. 🙂

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I wanted to try monotypes for a while now. First e

I wanted to try monotypes for a while now. First experiments a few weeks ago failed due to too little knowlegde and wrong materials. But I'm pretty happy with yesterday's results. Abstract landscapes. This one was done printing several layers of acrylics. Still lots of things to learn and try, like combining this with other techniques. The possibilities are endless! 😊

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Today it was time for a little Draw this in your S

Today it was time for a little Draw this in your Style Challenge again. Saw a Popeye photo in Bernard's @bernardsombret compilation for this week, and thought it was perfect. 🙂

I did two versions which I will post seperately. This is the second version, done with my 6mm Pilot Parallel Pen in a cheap watercolor paper sketchbook.

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Today it was time for a little Draw this in your S

Today it was time for a little Draw this in your Style Challenge again. Saw a Popeye photo in Bernard's @bernardsombret compilation for this week, and thought it was perfect. 🙂

I did two versions which I will post seperately. The first one I did with alcohol markers on photopaper. Parts of it were done as blind contour with a black PlaycolorK marker from Tombow first (these don't smudge with alcohol markers on top.)

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One from the New Year's Eve life drawing marathon

One from the New Year's Eve life drawing marathon with Ludmila @ludmilamedinaartola, organized by Judith from @lifefiguredrawing. Loved Ludmila channeling Frida Kahlo. 🙂 Gracias Ludmila y Judith! :-)😘😘

Done with one of my Pilot Parallel Pens, I think it was the 2,4mm one, and Japanese watercolors.

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Another one from Sunday's awesome Metropolis-inspi

Another one from Sunday's awesome Metropolis-inspired life drawing session with the amazing Emily Metalskin. Emily as fake Maria burned at the stake.

This one was also done with my 6mm Pilot Parallel Pen and Japanese watercolors.

Thanks for being such a great muse, Emily, and thanks for organizing those awesome sessions, Judith! 😘😘

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One of my favs from Sunday's awesome Metropolis-in

One of my favs from Sunday's awesome Metropolis-inspired life drawing session with the amazing Emily Metalskin hosted by Judith Yaws' Lifefiguredrawing.

This one was done with my 6mm Pilot Parallel Pen and Japanese watercolors.

Thanks for being such a great muse, Emily, and thanks for organizing those awesome sessions, Judith! 😘😘

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Four from yesterday's life drawing session with th

Four from yesterday's life drawing session with the wonderful couple Rebecca and Aleksander aka @lifedrawingduo, hosted by Helen Roeten @helenroetenlifedrawing. The session was inspired by the magical art of Sjulle @sjulle_.

Big thanks Rebecca, Aleksander, and Helen for this awesome session! 😘😘😘

I was mainly using my Pilot Parallel Pen ((the 3,8mm one) and Japanese watercolors. For the portrait I also grabbed a Tombow Brushpen to deepen some shadow areas.

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Currently reading "4000 Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman.

Currently reading "4000 Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman. Great book, but it constantly reminds you of the very limited time you have on this plane. That you have to make choices, cause you will not be able to fit everything you want to do, not even remotely, into your life span (which is more or less 4000 weeks if you happen to see your 80th birthday). I can really recommend it. So, with all that thought about my own mortality, when @Scrawlrbox gave out their #ScrawlrSketch prompt for last week - #sunflower - I decided to make my sunflower a memento mori piece. I had taken a pic of a dead sunflower last november when strawling through the flowergardens in Hirschstetten here in Vienna, took that as my reference. Not entirely happy though, part of it is as I wanted it to be. I replaced the blue sky and background with this bright yellow to contrast the dead flower, as a symbol of its essence, the light. Added a dead bee as well. But somehow the bottom part is not quite what I wanted it to be. Probably cause I wasn't really sure what exactly I wanted it to be like in the first place. Maybe I consider it a study and start again. 😉

Mixed media all the way. Japanese watercolor, Daniel Smith watercolor sticks, acrylic markers, Derwent paint pens (I love the fine lines these create, for an acrylic pen), a black gel pen, a Pentel Brushpen, water-soluble oil crayons.

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