by Mandy | Nov 15, 2018 | Art, Art Journal, Blog, Collage, Illustration, Journaling, Kunstzinnig Dagboek, Mixed Media, Process, Storytelling, Watercolor |
Philosophy and a cave Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of philosophy and science. Mighty interesting! And bound to find its way into my journal. One of the concepts I ran into last week was Plato’s allegory of the cave. It basically says we human beings are...
by Mandy | Sep 10, 2018 | Art Journal, Blog, Inspiration, Journaling, Writing |
Have you ever reread your old diaries? A gruesomely hot and long summer is behind us. And I’m so glad. How did you get through? The Viking blood I must have in my veins was seriously uncomfortable in the heat and I did little more than read 21 books. I’m...
by Mandy | Aug 22, 2018 | Art Journal, Blog, Handbound Journals, Kunstzinnig Dagboek, Mixed Media |
Hello dear reader, Are you still there? Or did you melt this summer? Boy, was it hot, wasn’t it? The area where I live is normally cool since it’s close to the sea. But this summer all that once was normal, evaporated in the heat. The viking blood in me...
by Mandy | Apr 24, 2018 | Art Supplies, Blog, Colors, Painting, Review, Watercolor |
Today I have another watercolor review for you! Another Belgian brand called Blockx. I heard about this brand of watercolor paint for the first time on the Handprint site. In my video review I say I read that these were one of MacEvoy’s favored paints. But I...
by Mandy | Dec 23, 2017 | Art Journal, Art Supplies, Blog, Illustration, Inspiration, Live Workshop, Tanka, Video, Vlog, Workshop |
Dear readers, we’ve come to the end of this year…already! Time is rushing by so fast I feel its velocity might toss me off the planet sometimes. Gosh…almost 2018 already! High time to review, look ahead and fuel our minds with a little, or no…a...
by Mandy | Nov 23, 2017 | Blog, Illustration, Tanka, Workshop, Writing |
Summer has fallen and my Tanka couldn’t but follow… English translation of the Tanka: every day raindrops on the map – it’s sunny now beckoning me out but I find my feet frozen in the work I have to do The skies have turned a dull kind of heavy...
