I had a lot of quality felt

I got a lot of quality felt by the brand Kvadrat,

it would be thrown away otherwise...

What to do with it?

Of course you can think of a lot.

I wanted to make something sustainable for Christmas,

I had some ideas and started to cut, try and make. It turned into these colourful garlands.

Quite a lot of work... but quality and you can use them for years to come.

Charcoal

Love to use charcoal for portrait sketches,

most of these drawings I kept in a portfolio.

Some of them I turned into cards:

The painting of the castle garden

So I made this first draft of the garden of the castle this summer,

and I have been looking at it for some time,

not knowing what to do with it.

And today I just started.

So this is the beginning of the draft, painting live in the garden:

This is my palette:

And this is the painting up until now:

I think I will look at it some more, 

deciding whether I will work on it some more or not.

Make art

Quick drawing in between, doing some lettering.

Hand lettering is very popular nowadays,

and it is so much fun to do.

When I was young, I practiced calligraphy,

and I have several inspiring books about this topic.

But... I prefer to freestyle, not looking at other fonts or ideas but just try new ones:

Sketchbook

From the sketchbook, using oil crayons and pen:

ABC

I used Ecoline-pens by Talens to write this ABC:

And the A is for: Art.

The P is for: paint, plants, personal, plans.

The S is for: Scotland, scribbles and sense.

A favorite one...

Once again I stumbled upon this painting in the Singer Museum,

and I instantly liked it.

It was part of an exhibition this summer. 

It is painted by Frans Deutmann (1867-1915), a Dutch painter,

and I think it is beautiful.

The museum often has nice exhibitions on themes as impressionism or expressionism. 

Mainly focusing on Dutch painters who have been living in the artist village of Laren.