by Mandy | Dec 21, 2022 | Blog, Drawing, ink |
Artificial AI – by me So, enter a few keywords in AI software and add some art you like and … … … … … Moments later, the software poops out a piece of art containing the objects your keywords refer to in the style of the art you added! Right? Right. And artists...
by Mandy | Dec 9, 2022 | Art, Contemplation, New Work, Watercolor |
New paintings I must be working on three things at the same time right now…there’s a big tree painting on my drafting table, waiting to be developed further into a tree world; there’s ink drawings I’m working on and now there are two new...
by Mandy | Nov 23, 2022 | Art Supplies, Review, Vlog, Watercolor |
Meeting Roman Szmal Last Summer I met Roman Szmal, the man behind the lovely Aquarius watercolor paint. He invited me to meet him at Kunstburg. That’s the Dutch art supply store that sells his paint. And although it’s all the way on the other end of the...
by Mandy | Oct 11, 2022 | Life, patreon, Visual Journal |
Last week I decided to unlaunch my Patreon, to pause it indefinitely. Why? Well, the short of it is that it’s time for me to go back to basics. The long of it is that… …I need to practise ‘Amor Fati’ When I launched my Patreon my head was...
by Mandy | Jul 28, 2022 | Art, Blog, Drawing, Illustration, Memory, Painting, Process, Sketchbook, Storytelling, Video, Watercolor |
A few weeks ago Ana Goldberg, a YouTuber I’ve been following for a while now, proposed to her Patrons to do a zine together. The topic would be “Our most cherished items and why we keep them”. Ana left her home country a few weeks ago and had to leave behind most of...