by Mandy | Oct 21, 2020 | Art, Art Journal, Blog, Drawing, Illustration, ink, Journaling |
Normally I don’t do challenges anymore because I don’t like how they intrude on my own flow, but Inktober is different. Just like writing Tanka I love limiting myself to just one medium. Creative wings are often born within limitations. It happens with...
by Mandy | Mar 30, 2020 | Art, Blog, Illustration, Inspiration, Learning process, Process, tutorial |
Inspiration and hard times We can all do with an inspiration hack at the moment, can’t we? It’s not easy, feeling inspired with an outerworldly situation going on around you or even very close to you. And yet, worrying doesn’t solve anything. As long...
by Mandy | Dec 30, 2019 | Art, Art Supplies, Blog, Contemplation, Illustration, Inspiration, Painting, Process, Video, Vlog, Watercolor, Writing |
Everything in life comes in seasons. Everything comes and goes. Literally every single thing. I’ve known this for as long as I can remember. But I only truly began to understand when one day along the shore I found hundreds of dead serpent stars,thousands, even....
by Mandy | Aug 19, 2019 | Art, Contemplation, Drawing, Illustration, Inspiration, Painting, Process, Storytelling, Watercolor |
Storytelling with a message Making art, to me, is visual storytelling. Sometimes it is literally a way of telling a story that already exists. And sometimes it is a way of unearthing a story that lay hidden somewhere in my subconscience, somewhere in my fingers,...
by Mandy | Aug 16, 2019 | Art Supplies, Drawing, Illustration, Process, Studio, Video |
Photos + Video Slanted worktops save the day. And the Neck! People who draw a lot know that the neck and the shoulders need to be spared. Working on a flat surface inevitably causes problems in the long run. And still all artists know the pain because many of us...
by Mandy | Jul 17, 2019 | Art Journal, Art Supplies, Blog, Gouache, Illustration, Process, Studio, Visual Journal, Watercolor |
A second blog post in two days?! I must be on a roll again after such a long period of quietude… For today’s post I let myself be inspired by my friend Marit Barentsen who takes part in “What’s on Your Workdesk”. I was a bit tired of...
