Flamingo Painting
I created a flamingo painting. But somehow, I haven’t shown it to you yet. I wanted to, but then we renovated a house, (…) Read More
SmileZine: 8 Simple ways to brighten your neighbourhood (with friendly forms of street art)
You might live in the cutest-rainbowiest-happiest neighbourhood imaginable. Or, more likely, there is room for improvement: add a little sparkle, plant some flowers, (…) Read More
I’ll close my Etsy shop (free shipping for original paintings)
I remember my first canvas painting. I got myself some acrylic paints (just the primary colours & white), a canvas and picked up a paint (…) Read More
Travel sketches China
Garden of Forbidden City, Beijing When I am drawing, sometimes people will look over my shoulder to see what I am creating. Usually (…) Read More
Travel sketches Laos
Banana shake at Tad Fan (waterfall near Pakse). Inspiration can be everywhere. You need to actively keep your eyes open for it though. (…) Read More
Travel sketches Cambodia
I’m a highly practical packer and everything and anything got tossed out from my original packing list if it didn’t meet my high (…) Read More
Butterfly tie (vlinderdas) painting
The word for ‘bow tie’ in Dutch is ‘vlinderdas’. Vlinder means butterfly. Das means tie. So what you call a bow tie in (…) Read More
Bucket list: exhibit my artwork
Almost exactly one year ago, I set myself an extreme two-week painting challenge. I blocked out all my appointments, locked myself inside and (…) Read More
Turquoise, gold & triangles: a new artwork!
The colours in this one are hard to transfer to a digital screen without insulting the original artwork. The first two close-up pictures (…) Read More
The unicorn girl and the flying paper cranes painting
I think the fun of painting is in creating dream worlds in which anything is possible. Ever since I folded 1000 paper cranes, (…) Read More
Past project: Utopia drawing (based on Goldfrapp lyrics)
Utopia It’s a strange day No colours or shapes No sound in my head I forget who I am When I’m with you (…) Read More
Bucket list: create a big 3D illusion painting on the ceiling
If he would have answered me, I would have booked a plane and moved to London. I’m not even kidding. But he never (…) Read More
Blogcademy scholarship submission
The Blogcademy will come to Amsterdam this summer, and I would love to join. One scholarship is offered for each city. This post is my (…) Read More
Experiments I conducted on my little sister: Part I
I’m the second child in four. The good thing about this fact is that while growing up, siblings #1 and #3 were both (…) Read More
