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I just want
I just want to let you know that I made a new business-card:Bye!PIN THIS BLOGPOST!FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL![et_social_follow icon_style="slide" icon_shape="circle" icons_location="top" col_number="3" custom_colors="true" bg_color="" bg_color_hover="" icon_color=""...
Another re-used piece of collage
Yesterday, I re-used the bottom-left part of this collage. Today, I re-used the bottom-right part. I cut out the lower left corner, and this is what came out of it: Bye!PIN THIS BLOGPOST!FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL![et_social_follow icon_style="slide"...
Re-using a collage
Today, I re-used an old collage that I wasn't happy with:I cut out the lower left corner, and this is what came out of it: Bye!PIN THIS BLOGPOST!FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL![et_social_follow icon_style="slide" icon_shape="circle" icons_location="top" col_number="3"...
It really can be done in 5 minutes!
Almost every morning I run into the same issue. Am I going to paint or not? Especially now I'm responsible for the household on my own, I feel I have less time. I painted anyway, and I discovered that it really can be done in a few minutes. What's necessary though,...
Today’s collage
No time to write about it, but here it is, today's collage:Bye! Simone
Collage rules
Today is my second day of being 'husband-less' at home. It's good to have this painting-groove going! Collage rules. Here it is:Bye!FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL![et_social_follow icon_style="slide" icon_shape="circle" icons_location="top" col_number="3"...
On my own….
My husband is away for a four month art residency in Paris (as a composer/musician). Exciting for him, and for me too, since I'm on my own now with two growing up children and a household to run ;-)! He will be back here often, Paris is not that far from here. But...
Daily Painting: Painting with Presence
Lately I've been thinking a lot about the concept of 'Painting with Presence'. As you most probably know, I'm very inspired by spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle. One of his core concepts is 'Presence'. A way of being in the world that's not based on your thinking mind,...
Daily Painting: Small paintings
Dear reader, I've been in France for two weeks, and I'm back with new and fresh inspiration! As always, collage making helped me to get back on my saddle! This is what I made the past few days!This was it for today! Have a beautiful and creative...
Daily Painting: Square
Dear readers, I wasn't in a particularly good mood this morning - but painting brought me back to THIS moment - the only moment that exists.Bye!SIGN UP FOR MY DAILY PAINTING BLOG UPDATES!
Daily Painting: The second half
Daily Painting: Bookmark again
Here's todays small bookmark:Nothing more, nothing less. Just have fun in the morning with three tiny drops of fluid acrylics and two acrylic markers.PIN THIS BLOGPOST!FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL![et_social_follow icon_style="slide" icon_shape="circle" icons_location="top"...
Daily Painting: a small one
Today, just a small moment out of time, space and mind - to paint. This is made on a scrap of old painting (approximately 8x6 cm).Bye! Have a beautiful day!PIN THIS BLOGPOST!FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL![et_social_follow icon_style="slide" icon_shape="circle"...
Daily Painting: A big one for The Art of Now
Dear readers, Today I worked on a bigger painting, that I'm making as a 'bonus video' for my online course The Art of Now that will be released soon. I'ts 50-70 cm. Here it is 'halfway':I will soon publish the complete painting (and post the link...
Daily Painting: Black, White and Brown
Dear reader, Today, just a very quick painting (7x10 cm), made on a scrap of an old painting. Just black, white and brown. Here it is:Bye!PIN THIS BLOGPOST!FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL![et_social_follow icon_style="slide" icon_shape="circle" icons_location="top"...
Daily Painting: Marks and lines and …
Dear readers, Today, I started from an old piece of 'lifting paper' (paper that I use to 'lift excessive paint' from a painting). Here it is:I cut that one in half, and used this A5-format as a starting point for a quick painting (on thin copy paper, nothing...
Daily Painting: only markers added
Dear readers, Today I made a postcard from an old painting - just adding markers. Only a little bit of time needed (and a beautiful start of my day!). Here it is:Bye!PIN THIS BLOGPOST!FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL![et_social_follow icon_style="slide"...
Daily Painting: Starting up again
Dear reader, Today, I started up again with my (more or less) daily painting practice, after a beautiful summer holiday in the Pyrenees. It was wonderful to be in touch again with the rough nature that I love so much. I's beautiful to be surrounded by ...
Daily Painting: Barcodes
Dear readers, The holiday is coming up, I most probably will not be painting for a while, but today I paint! I'm rounding up the year, so it's only something small (10x10 cm, 4x4"). I love to work this small. Only with three colors of paint (turquoise,...
Daily Painting: Bookmark – again!
Dear readers, Without much ado: another bookmark. I love the format - it's so unusual (small and elongated), and gives new challenges and possibilities. I started from stillness - which is a wonderful morning meditation. Bye!PIN THIS...
Daily Painting: Another bookmark
Dear readers, Today, I made another bookmark. There are only 9 workdays left (and a lot of tasks on my plate) until my holiday starts - so I feel 'in a hurry'. But then I thought: I can paint something really small. For instance this bookmark:I hope you have a...
Daily Painting: From inner turmoil to stillness
Dear reader, This morning I felt very agitated because I had an unpleasant meeting with somebody on my morning run - and I felt very agitated and angry and afraid (will I meet him again tomorrow?). I couldn't drop the fear and turmoil. I started painting,...
Daily Painting: Green Gold again
Dear reader, Today, I again started my day purposely from Stillness. I went outside, watched a flower, immersed myself in 'Being', and then went inside to paint. I used Green Gold again - I think it really matches the turquoise beautifully, and makes...
Daily Painting: Making Art from Stillness
Dear readers, Lately, I've been watching a lot of Eckhart Tolle video's. Some of you might now that he's an important teacher for me. Often I come back to his teachings and always find inspiration and wisdom. Also, I've been a lot in my small garden lately. The...
Daily Painting: To paint or not to paint?
Dear readers, Today I made a 'complete' painting again (only 15 x 15 cm, but still). I felt kind of restless, and then the question arises: to paint or not to paint? I have so many other things that I want to do today... I chose for painting, obviously,...
Daily Painting: another bookmark
Dear readers, Today, I have 'a little time' (I put this between quotation marks...), so I only worked on a bookmark, of leftover paper. Since I'm cutting 15x15 cm squares from a 50x70 rectangle, I'm able to cut 12 rectangles, and that's why there are all sorts...
Daily Painting: Just playing
Dear reader, Today I made this new square (15x15 cm). Sometimes I can feel really serious about Making Art. But not today. Today it was just playing. Here is the 'underpainting':And here the final painting:I always like to see the difference...
Daily Painting: Graphic elements
Dear readers, Today, another square (see former blogs). What I like about this one, are the graphic elements. Today, I didn't forgot to take the 'before'-picture. So here they are. Before:After:A bit of struggling involved, but not too much 😉 ...
Daily Painting: Watching the painting unfold
Dear readers, Daily Painting: Watching the painting Unfold Nederlands Today I worked again on a small painting of 6x6”. Same recipe as the previous blog posts. At the moment I 'think a lot' about making art as a 'spiritual practice'. Spiritual exercise, if you...
Daily Painting: making art as a contemplative practice
Yesterday I already talked about Steve Taylor's book: 'The Leap - the psychology of spiritual awakening'. He speaks of creativity (especially making poetry and painting) as 'spiritual practice'. Now I always have had that experience. To me, painting means: becoming...
Daily Painting: Waking up from the dream state
Dear reader, Today I worked again on one of the 15x15 cm squares that I cut from the large 50x70 cm underpainting. (By the way - today I use Google's automatic translation function - I'm very curious if you notice anything about that, and if the translation...
Daily Painting: Square # 4
Dear readers, Today, another square, cut from the bigger 50/70 cm 'underlayer'-painting. Today, I thought about taking a photograph of the underlayer-square. Here it is:And this was what came out of it, with a little Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold (Golden) and...
Daily Painting: A square and a bookmark
Dear readers, Today I made another square, from the bigger 50/70 cm painting that I made a while ago. Now I've painting three out of twelve squares. Would be interesting to see them all together one day. We'll see! I find it very satisfying to work with only...
Daily Painting: Another square
Dear readers, Today, I cut another square from the bigger painting of 50/70 cm. This square is again 15/15 cm (6/6").Making these small paintings out of a bigger painting is so much fun! There are already many layers in place, so there is already a lot of...
Daily Painting: 15 x 15 cm
Dear readers, Today, I felt in a hurry. (Always good to check in with myself, at such a moment - why am I in a hurry? Do I think a future moment is better than this one?). Anyway - I wanted to finish a video for my online course 'The Art of Now', soon to be...
Daily Painting: Fresh Eyes
Dear readers, This morning, I had an interesting experience. I am a real nature-lover, and I hope to live one day in a natural environment (right now I live in a suburb - which is more than okay, and I'm very grateful for our small but perfect house, but it's...