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October – “Direction”
After contemplating the sense of rhythm in my art practice, the thought about direction came up almost inevitably. Where to go? What to reach? A straight line ahead, or venturing out and coming back to home base? A long trip or short, spontaneous ones? I’m one of those people who walk into a store and…
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Win a FREE spot in Let’s Face It 2027!
I am thrilled to announce that I’m joining again as one of the featured guest artists in Let’s Face It 2027 and today I am giving away a FREE membership! If you love drawing and painting portraits, or would like to better your portrait/figure painting skills, then this is the course for you! You can…
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I’m joining Let’s Face It 2027!
It’s that wonderful time of the year again where I can let you know that Let’s Face It is back and open for registration! I’m so happy to be a part of the teacher crew again and add a few lessons into the mix. Read more to reserve your spot and join me for another…
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An introduction to Chromamagic
Last weekend I hosted a free workshop, telling you all about Chromamagic on Zoom. And a lot of you attended! I want to share the replay with you and some links that were mention in the Zoom call. And don’t forget to sign up for my newsletter if you’d like to know when the next…
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Improve your portraits with Chromamagic
Chromamagic is a wonderful application that allows you to study your reference photo in a way that benefits your art. In this workshop I’m going to show you how that’s done right from the very beginning. And it’s free to join! Chromamagic analyses the colours and values in your photos. But it can be tricky…
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September – “Rhythm”
Half-way through the year – and coincidentally after the summer holidays – I tend to lose my routine. It slips from me. I can feel it, as if the energy that is required to keep it in place has been spent and my marbles are rolling in every direction. I’ve spent years in a bad…
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August – “Space”
Space fascinates me. Not just the one with the stars and black holes and what not. But just, the concept of space. My space, your space. Big, small. Small can feel safe and big can feel small. In art, when you move away from focussing on the object, to focussing on the space, it becomes…
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July – “Now”
July is the month of my birthday and my birthday inevitably the day I look back at the year and feel ambivalent. It turned out to be a good drive to think more about this feeling instead of ignoring it like I usually do. Years ago I started painting with black watercolour as a careful…
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June – “Embrace”
I’m of the esteemed millennial generation, whose sole purpose it was to put random verbs onto to literally anything we own. Words like “Believe” and “Breathe”. And “Embrace”. So when this word came to mind – which is how it goes these days – my second thought was; “Please no. Anything but this.” Alas. Once…
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May – “Mirror”
When I started drawing as a teenager, I had stacks of pretty fashion magazines that I used for reference. If you’re a child of the 80s or 90s you’ll remember that none of those photographs had anything to do with actual human looks or features. I soon switched to using more accurate photos; documentary style…
