Almost there!

I had a bit of time to work on my painting and it's getting near the end! Although it might still take a few weeks, I know from experience that those final touches and details always take longer than expected. Here you can see how it looks so far:

And I played a bit in my journal yesterday! Every time I do that I ask myself why I don't do it more often, because it's just so much fun. But I have this weird habit that whenever I haven't done something in a while, I hesitate to do it again because I have the feeling I don't know how to anymore. I especially have that when painting faces. I keep delaying it because it seems like so much effort and there's always too little time. But last night I just wanted to do something and I started putting random lines on a page and then saw some figures in there, I grabbed my Inktense pencils and my Stabilo and before I knew it the page was finished. It's not that much effort, it doesn't take that much time. If only I could remind myself of that every time I hesitate again.

Here's the journal page:

I'll be linking this to Paint Party Friday tomorrow. Looking forward to the creations this week!
Here are my weekly funnies and thinkies:

Thanks so much for your visit! I hope you're having a wonderful day, and I wish you a splendid weekend full of things and people you love. I'll be back next week ♥ ♥ ♥

How time flies

Another month, another wallpaper! One with warm colours, to celebrate the coming of the sun (at least in this part of the world ...). Here it is:

And here's where you can download it :-)

I've been doing a lot of experimenting this week, digitally, and also on paper. Not much to show for it though, I'm still struggling to translate some ideas into techniques. I am working on a new doodle, so that might be finished by next week. Didn't paint very much either, well, I did paint, but it was something in the house and not on my canvas :-/  I managed to do just a few small parts:

Itching to keep working on it, preferably for a whole day!

I will be linking this to Paint Party Friday tomorrow. I'm off to bed now, but first some funnies and thinkies :-)

Thanks for dropping by! Have a fun day and a great weekend!

Hugs ♥ ♥ ♥

Still playing

with my new painting. I'm enjoying it so much, I love playing with colours and this painting is one big colour-party :-)

Here's some more progress-pics:

It's a big canvas (80 x 80 cm - 31,5"x 31,5") so I still got a lot to cover. I drew some figures and some random lines, but mostly I just make it up while I go. It's fun!

Didn't manage to make a second sketch this week, to make up for the week I missed, but I did make one for this week:

I'm getting a bit bored with these sketches, and I might switch to something else. I don't like doing the same thing over and over again, I need to change regularly. Might change to doodles or something else entirely. We'll see :-)

That's it for now. Linking to Paint Party Friday tomorrow and looking forward to visiting all of you. Just some funnies and thinkies left :-)

  celebrating earth day ... :-)

Take care, have fun and see you next week! Thanks for dropping by ♥ ♥ ♥

Spring, no, summer has started!

School holidays are over and I'm slowly getting back into my daily routine. Didn't have anything to show last week, which means I'm now one week behind with my weekly sketches. But no worries, I'm sure I'll be able to make one extra some time in the next weeks :-)

But first the most important thing (for me at least): spring has well and truly started, we even had summer temperatures the last few days. And it feels so good. Oh, I truly am a sun lover, I hate cold and snow and dark grey days. I can hardly believe that only 3 weeks ago we still had snow! So for those of you that are still struggling with snow and ice: spring will come, just wait and see! Here are some pictures to bring you in the mood :-)

 Our rose bush. It had so many buds already when it started snowing again, so I was worried there wouldn't be any flowers. But see: they all came out :-)

our dog can't get enough of the sun ... 

 hmm, this smells sooo good. This one also had buds since a few months already, but the snow didn't bother it, luckily!

Our cherry-tree .... Look at that sky!

And now for my weekly sketch:

She is looking either very sleep-deprived or very sad .... Oh well ...

And here's some progress with my painting:

Still loving experimenting with some new techniques.

That's it for this week, except for the funnies and thinkies of course :-)

some comfort for those of you still struggling with winter ... 

This is a test admission for the academy of the arts in China .... Wow!

Linking this post to Paint Party Friday and looking forward to visiting some of my favorite blogs. Thanks so much for stopping by, it's truly appreciated! 

Wishing you a wonderful end of the week and lots of joy. Take care! ♥ ♥ ♥