slow going ....

Didn't get much art done this week. I'm a bit stuck with my painting, don't know how to proceed, and every time I have some ideas and try them out, I hate what I've done and remove it again. Guess I'll have to sleep on it a bit more :-)

I did manage a new map face. With a poem from one of my favorite authors Warsan Shire, that I've used a few times in my art already, but I never tire of it and it expresses so beautifully (and achingly) the state of the world today. Here it is:

I did paint two more birds on my painting:

Now the only thing I need to figure out is how to finish it ....

I told you last week that I made a present for friends of mine that were getting married. We went to the bridal party last weekend, so I can show you now what I made :-)

I should've made a picture of the rock in my hand, because it was really big, bigger than my hand. But this is the only picture I have.

I'm going to link this to Paint Party Friday tomorrow. Now it's off to bed, since it's after midnight already. But first it's time for some funnies :-)

And the ones to think about ....

Thanks so much for your visit! Wishing you lots of plain old fun today, and a wonderful loving weekend! See you next week ♥ ♥ ♥

Spring is here!

We had such a beautiful spring-day here today! Oh, it was heaven, sun and warmth, being outside, working in the garden, aaahh.... Sure wish it could be this way every day, I would never tire of it.

That was a nice surprise last week, when I was featured on Paint Party Friday :-) Thank you all for your lovely comments!

I have been rather busy this week, making a present for friends who are getting married this weekend, and working in the garden. But I managed to work some more on my painting. I changed the faces a little bit, made them a bit smaller. This is what I have now:

I love working on this painting, and using all those bright colours :-)

I also made another map-face, with quote of course:

And I finally made a new wallpaper for my computer. I still had the last one I made on there, from December 2016. With spring here I figured it was time for a new one!
Here it is:

When you click on this link you can download it for your computer :-) Can't promise I'll make one every month, but I'll try ...

And last but not least, look at the magnolia outside our front door!

It's fully in bloom now and smells so good I could stand next to it and sniff it all day :-)

That's it for now. I will be linking this to Paint Party Friday tomorrow. Thanks for your visit and your thoughtful comments. It might take me a few days, but I always come around to your blogs too. I have a weird thing happening though lately. Before, whenever someone commented on my blog, I always got an email, so if I wanted to I could reply to the comment through email. But since a few weeks, only a small number of comments come through to my mailbox, the other ones appear on my blog without an email being sent to my mailbox. This is very annoying, since this way I sometimes miss comments, and also I can't answer to the comments via email. Does anyone recognize this? I looked at my blog-settings and they're still okay, so I don't know what's changed.

Anyway, I'll finish as usual, with some funnies :-)

And the ones to think about ...

Have a beautiful day, and a fantastic weekend! See you next week ♥ ♥ ♥

Progressing nicely

My roadmap-book is falling apart in some places. Guess it's not really up to the use of glue and paint and water..... Also when I scan the spreads that I've done on two pages, I need to push the spine down really hard in order to get a more or less good scan. Sooo, the result is that a few pages have come loose. I've been thinking about taking it apart altogether, but that's too big a step for now. I'll just paint the loose pages as well, or I use them as collage.

Here's one of the loose pages:

I have mostly been working on my new canvas. I decided to start much sooner with the bringing out of the figures. Some of my paintings have 30 layers or more on there, and I don't want that anymore. So I forced myself to find figures. Which wasn't easy at all. Then I started looking for really small details, like an eye, or a shoulder, or a neckline. And this way I managed to find 3 figures :-)
So happy I'm in the "painting-stage" already and not in the background-stage anymore.

Here's how it was looking when I started looking for figures:

Here are some details:

this one I found through the jawline

 this one through the curve of the neck

and this one through the shoulder and the breast

and of course a lot of imagination  ... ;-)

Linking to Paint Party Friday. I forgot to mention 2 weeks ago that it was their 6th anniversary! I'm so happy to have found this group somewhere in 2012. It's a very active art community and the participants are so encouraging and helpful. And everyone is welcome! So if you feel like joining, please do!

Thanks for your visit and your comments! Each and every one is appreciated :-)
Hope you enjoy the funnies :-)

And some to think about ...

Have a beautiful day and enjoy your weekend! See you next week ♥ ♥ ♥