Dear reader,

Just a very, very, very quick postcard today. Just looking at scraps, using a knife to trim them, glueing one part on the other, and that’s it for today.

Bye!

Dear reader,

Under my desk, I keep a big drawer with old paintings, and scraps of painted paper that still have beautiful reusable pieces on them. Today I didn’t have time to paint, but I wanted to make something, so I opened this drawer, and: yes! This was what came out of it.

Bye!

Dear reader,

Today I wrestled a bit with this one, but what I like about all this painting experience that I have ‘under my belt’ so to speak, is that I just keep going, until something acceptable shows up. It doesn’t have to be great. But even if I would paint the whole thing black, with just some white and some colors peeping through, it would be good enough.

Bye!

Simone

Dear reader,

Today another painting in my art diary.

I have painted a lot of paintings using the principle of ‘negative space’. Making colorful paintings, and then covering up a lot of it. The pieces that are not covered  ‘pop up’ more – because the rest of it is covered, they get extra attention.

I always used white or other colors to create negative space, never black!

And all of a sudden, today, I painted black around colorful spots. Why didn’t I invent this before?

Bye!

Simone

Dear reader,

Today I was so-called-busy, but thanks to my friend Dotty I was inspired to paint anyway. Only took a quarter of an hour or so. No spectacular results, but I had fun!

Bye!