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Oil on Canvas 9” ×9”
This from a series of designs I made which are meant for modern interiors, as a quiet but colourful touch. Somebody asked me for some designs, and at first I thought it a stupid commission, but I really got to enjoy myself and I made a lot for myself! I am going to do a few as diary paintings.
I ahve been busy and a bit ill, so my diary paintings have suffered, very bad!
Bad Aafke!
I have some still to share with you. But unfortunately I have lost my memory card. it fell in the snow, and now I have lost all the photo’s I made, and I sold most of them at the horse show.
I have made a Banner for Blogging Buddy Bedu!
It symbolised both herself and her blog.
It has an Arab horse of course, but also Bedu’s cats, and a Nejdi goat, and an image of the beautiful Nabatean ruins in Maidan Salah. There’s a lot more to Saudi Arabia as just sand and oil!
You can see the banner in situ, read lots of interesting posts, (and heated discussions 
) at American Bedu. Click here.
I will be painting at a horse-fair all weekend and no internet!
At least I expect to be coming back with lots of artwork 
Long time ago I was very sad, my pony Mona Lisa had to go, she was way to small for me and she had a mental kink, making it impossible to ride her. She was going back to my Aunt so she would be all right.
But at night I had a bad nightmare… My mom came because she had heard me scream and she told me that somewhere there was a horse for me.
My next dream was about a brown horse, galloping down a grassy slope.
I remembered thinking, ”Oh, no, not a brown one, I want a black one!”
I then forgot about the dream.
Some months later I met the love of my life, Cartouche.
Who happened to be a brown mare, and a year later I remembered having this dream…
Acrylic on canvas
9” × 9”
Saint Nicholas is back in the country!
This is what he does at night: Jumping around on the roofs, distributing small gifts and candy and chocolate in the shoes of good children.
I’ve been on a short break in England. So instead of diary paintings I have been making sketches. And photographing them and I am now writing from one of the many café’s with wifi!
The sketches are photographed at dark in the café!
I stayed with an Indian friend and she took me to some sari-shops where we looked at super dazzling indian costume jewellery! And I got some very huge prandis, the decoration for your plait. I am going to use them to make some show decorations for the Tarq!
There were a couple of really nice art cafés in Derby! I had no idea!
A ten minute sketch, because we were having tea at M&S and they wanted to close so we got kicked out! Mark this face: Shivanna, future Pop star!
Hmmm. What about Captain Kabob and Shivanna for a mega-star-duo?
Now my friend lives in what could be called: The Stately home triangle. It’s really palace-central! There are so many sites I want to see all at her doorstep! Upton hall, Hardwick hall, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, Peveril Castle, Kedleston Hall (Adam interiors) and Calke Abbey.
Unfortunately, all these places are closed since last week!!!!!!!!
Aaaarrgghhhhhhh!!!!
So we just roamed about the park a bit at Calke Abbey.
This is the deer shelter
And although not nearly as good as the house itself, which is something of a time capsule, the outbuildings were quite cool. But, being cold and windy, I did a sketch from the comfort of the restaurant.
I’m travelling, I won’t have internet access, so no diary paintings.
Yeah, this one took me two days!
Next February we are going to have a side-saddle weekend. It’s one of our regular ponycamps with lessons. for the booklet I have been asked to make a drawing. But I have to do my diary painting too. It’s getting too busy!
So why not combine the two.
So here’s my painting for the day!
This was a famous circus rider in the nineteenth century.
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