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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=""...

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"...

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"...

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,...

No time to write about it, but here it is, today's collage:Bye!   Simone  

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"...

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...

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!

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"...

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"...

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...

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"...

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...

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"...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 ;-)  ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...