creative campground

For the end of the year event of Creative Campground I painted this woman.

I stamped the flowers and coloured them with neocolors II. 

My word for 2016 is CHANGE.

Butterfly -instant filler

I had no good feelings about the background.After a few days I took my stencils and used red, blue and purple acrylic paint. For the butterfly and circles I used stencils with instant filler.

Online workshop birds

I followed an online workshop of Suzanne Haring on the facebookgroup Petra's World of Art Dutch.

Jane Davenport

I think Jane Davenport is a great artist.

This painting was made to a preview of her.

Different girls and backgrounds

I worked on different girls  and used different materials.

The hair of this girl was painted with Amsterdam paint. I used stencils for the background.

For the background of this girl I used gelatos.

for this background I used aquarel paint but didnot dilute it and wiped it out with my fingers.

I worked with instant filler on stencils.

Playing in my Art Journal

Today I was just playing in my AJ.

finger painting

I finger painted this girl for the november challenge on the fb-group Petra's World of Art International.
Petra's World of Art International

Art Journal spread - fairies

we did an AJ game on the facebookgroup Petra's world of Art Dutch, during 3 days 2 inspiration cards were turned every day.

1. use paintbrush and ink

2. do something funny

3. use the same stamp multiple times

4.  use watercolor or Neocolor ll ( watersoluble crayons )

5.  add collage elements 

6. Journal with a permanent pen

and this is the result! I am happy with it.

pumpkingirls

I made these two paintings after a video tutorial of Andrea Gomoll.

Take a look at her site, she makes great art!

cre8tive cre8tions by Andrea Gomoll #cre8tivecre8tions.

Art journaling - every day has a magic moment

Every day has a magic moment, it helps us to change and let us follow our dreams.

Mixed media painting - Dove

I made this mm painting for my husband. He has doves so there had to be a dove on the painting. I found the dove on internet and printed it.

The background is neocolors II and I used paint dabbers and acrylic paint for the stencils.

Inspired bij Nika Rouss

For this mixed media painting I was inspired by a Youtube film of Nika Rouss.

Take a look on her website

Nika in Wonderland

Let's face it

A very interesting course with host Kara Bullock and many other fabulous teachers! One of the teachers is Petra Stein from Petra's World of art Dutch.

Let's face it - 2016

Art Journal spread

I made this AJ spread with inspiration cards and finished it with stamps from

Miranda Bosch-Thurlings

Out of the box

Last week, instead of painting or drawing, I created a few soap chains.

It was very relaxed.

Mixed media

Just played with neocolor II and paper hearts.

the fantasy bird stamp is from

Miranda Bosch-Thurlings

WAC - weekly Art Challenge

Every week we have a Weekly Art Challenge (WAC) on the group Petra's World of Art Dutch

Week 1: draw/paint a door

Week 3: use bubble plastic

Art Journal - inspiration cards

During two Art Date evenings on facebookgroup Petra's World of Art Dutch

I created these two AJ spreads.

Every 10/15 minutes an inspiration card was turned and in a few hours you create a spread using the items of the cards.

For my daughter

I made this Imperfect Girl for my daughter's birthday.

peeled paint technique

The background of this painting is called 'peeled paint'.

On the first layer with acrylic paint you put on some spots a little bit vaseline.

Then you paint the next layer with a different color. On the spots with vaseline you remove the paint of the second layer and the color of your first layer comes through.

So you can adjust more layers and see the former colors.

I painted the imperfect girl with acrylic paint.
You can find films of this technique on Youtube.

Fantasy bird

This painting with the fantasy bird was made by me after I got inspiration from

Werkboek 2 from Miranda Bosch - Thurlings.

Take a look on her facebookpage

Miranda's Mixed Media Stuff

en nog een meisje/ and an other girl

Still practicing girls.

Different faces, different hair and different backgrounds.

color girl

I really love all those colors on this painting.

I used aquarel paint for the background and acrylic paint for the girl.

I created the circles with a stencil and I used a few stamps.

Art Journal

This is a whimsy girl in my Art Journal. I used a painting of Tamara Laporte as an example.

Tamara Laporte - Willowing.org

my next girl

Again I worked with aquarel paint for the background and acrylic paint for the girl. Bubble plastic for the dots.

She is imperfect, but I think she is fantastic!

another imperfect girl

Practice, practice and practice!!

I love these imperfect girls.

I find it very difficult to get the right colors for the face.

Art Journal

For the left page I used a workshop of Trees de Vrieze from my facebookgroup Petra's World of Art Dutch

and for the right page I worked after an example of Tamara Laporte http://www.willowing.org/, she really is my favorite mixed media artist. I used acrylic paint and gelatos.

gypsy girl

Background = watercolors

girl = acrylic paint

I was inspired by a painting from Tamara Laporte of a gypsy girl.
I worked a little bit transparant so you can see the background trough the painting.

Challenge flower/butterfly/and the color rose

For a challenge from Hobbyshop Sandra 

I created this canvasboard.

I used stencils with instant filler. Than I sprayed dylusion ink over it.

I painted the flower on a different paper and glued it on the canvas. At last I glued the two butterflies on the canvasboard.

mixed media on canvas

My first mixed media canvas.

I sprayed the canvas with neon yellow and rose paint and than sprayed dylusions ink.

I used  instant filler on stencils and painted the chipboard and the keys with copper of Creall.

I glued everything on the canvas and finished it with the flowers and the butterfly.

It has been a long time .....

It has been a long time since I started this blog. 

So many things have happened in the past 2½ years.

I have learned a lot during that time and I now want to show you my paintings and mixed media and AJ (art journal).

I am still learning everyday. I love this creative travel!

This is my first 'imperfect girl'.

I learned to paint her and the background during an online workshop on a facebookgroup.

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First sprayed  the background with ink and paint. I drawed the girl. Used a posca pen for the text and the circles and a stencil for the dots.