On my desk

 Last week I have been working on a painting of a Tundra-landscape, and my desk looked like this:

I made some small adjustments but I think the painting is finished :). It has been a while to take time to paint. But the weather was brutal and I decided to just go for it, to find the pleasure in creating and see where it all leads to.

Maybe I'll keep the painting for a while, to look at it, or it might appear in my shop.

Wishing you a good week!

Mondriaan

 This week I visited the Mondriaanhuis, the house where the painter Mondriaan was born. It is a small museum with a shop and coffee corner. It gave a peak into his life. 

Piet Mondriaan took classes at the Academy in Amsterdam, here you see how all painters-to-be had to draw the male model. One of his teachers was Nicolaas van der Waay.

A quote from him was inspiring: 

We artists can point humans the way, to show how you can find balance between contrasts through our work. That way the world could be so much prettier.

Discount in my ETSY-shop

 Hi, currently there is a 15% discount in my ETSY-shop, valid until Wednesday November13th. It is on all items, so cards and paintings. Look here.

Trees

On my walks I have been looking at trees a lot, looking at their size (some are huge), at their shape, at their colour and their leaves. Sometimes I take pictures because I think it would be fun to do something with it, or use it as a reference for a drawing. But I find it quite difficult to draw trees..., so even better to just start and take notes. This is a drawing I made in my sketchbook, well it is not quite a drawing but more a way for me to look at lines, size and depth and how this all works in a forest full of trees (I kind of get lost). My next step would be to make a drawing, or rather a painting I think, and see where I end up.

This picture is from a majestic beech tree, catching the golden light of Autumn. And when you stand directly under it and look up, you feel the upward movement of the branches leading your eye to the sky.