Sunday, 19 July 2015

Inspiration for future work

I'm going to this course in Denmark/Århus:

Artists' Book Course

and I'm very curious about it and hope it will be a lot of fun and inspirational!

Otherwise I'm playing with my paints on paper, trying to capture moods with acrylic and a brush. Here are a few impressions of yesterday's work:

Putting some paint on paper; choosing a photo, to sketch a face; putting glue on top; add some more paint...




Adding paint from my wet palette and adding glue on the dry paint:


Fooling around with paints and scraffitti:


A portrait sketch, starting with a layer of graphite, taking off layers with an eraser, then adding and taking away until I thought it had the right variety of light and dark:


I'm working on a chocolate box decorated with acrylics and adding small paintings, that have the size of the chocolate pieces:



A few tiny sketches of old masters' portraits:


And a "copy" in my sketchbook. I was drawing a portrait and this turned up on the backside of my drawing :-)


Finally a sketch of a sculpture from an international art exhibition


I just noticed that writing these comments about my work/process creates awareness! You might call me stupid that I only notice this now, but that's the way it is with me. I'm a bit slow sometimes!
Have a wonderful new week!

Ilona :-)





Saturday, 11 July 2015

I posted this more than a year ago:

a-few-of-my-recent-sketches

I have done a lot of art for half a year, and then I started working, earning money, but art making was reduced to drawing a little and painting was next to nothing.
I really miss painting very much! And I need to find a way, to include art making into my schedule once again!

Here are a few pieces I have done in the past year that I think turned out quite well, though they are not all finished!!!  :