Kill the tv!

May 24, 2010 in Uncategorized | 4 comments

I have done something really good! I have thrown out my tv!
I did it three weeks ago, and I haven’t missed it a second!
Which is partly explained by my internet addiction but never mind. My huge big box of a tv is gone, and so have the 200+ videos.
I hate tv-programming, and commercials, but I did like my videos. But still, I feel immensely relieved :D

And so I have also been cleaning up my stash of panels, frames and miscellaneous… And I found a couple of paintings I had (almost) forgotten.

Once upon a time there was an exhibition in the National Gallery in London, and I went there, it was about Spanish still lives and they almost all have a black background. I loved it! I like black… So I started to do Spanish  still lives, and then I did some other paintings with a black background.

Now bear with me; those black oil paintings are hell to photograph and I didn’t manage it perfectly.

Small white Pegasus
Oil on Panel
5,5” x 7,5”

Texas Longhorn

March 30, 2010 in painted diary | 8 comments

Yes, I’m in Texas and I have met my first longhorn!!!!

This is a watercolour

5” × 10”

Illustration for Easter

March 3, 2010 in sketches | 1 comment

Just a small drawing for the cover  for the Easter weekend. I will not attend, I will be in Dallas!

Drawing

February 25, 2010 in sketches | 3 comments

Just back from the lovely Sidesaddle weekend, I have enrolled for the ”Ascention-Weekend”. Not that we plan to ascend to heaven, although that is always a possibillity when dashing through the forests at ”Ludicrous-Speed” with the Tarq…
No, Ascention day means an extra long weekend in the Netherlands, with extra holidays so this is the very best ponycamp of the year, as it starts on wednesday!

So I made this cartoon for the booklet.

It says ”Ascention Weekend”  ”Yes! We are going!”  And the Tarq says: ”But I am still  not going into the trailer”…

February 23

February 24, 2010 in cat portrait, painted diary | 3 comments

Oil on canvas
9” x 9”
Pom

So I haven’t been home a lot lately… I have been two weekends in Amsterdam staying with a friend, and visiting another friend, M.
M has a totally cute and mega-intelligent and talented daughter. She is 6 years old and makes beautiful photographs. She let me upload some on my computer and I willl be using some of them for paintings. So this is the cat Pom. She is really very cute, but there was this funny photo…. Which just begged to be converted in a funny portrait :)

I went all bold and graphic, instead of my usual attention to detail. I am really enjoying myself experimenting with these small paintings!

Monday 21 February

February 24, 2010 in painted diary | 4 comments

Oil on Canvas
9” x6”

Happy flower

I’m just very happy, so I painted a happy flower. Last weekend I had such a great time with my horse and my friends. And That was possible because I worked the weekend before and all week demolishing, and rebuilding my trailer! (Hence no diary paintings: for one I was working day and night, secondly I was at a friend’s without no painting stuff, and my hands really hurt as well)

So, very happy!!!!  :D

Waiting at Dawn

February 9, 2010 in Arabian, painted diary | 9 comments

9” x9”
Oil on canvas
Waiting at Dawn


This painting is dedicated to my dear friend Carol, who is battling cancer and has to deal with the loss of her husband. I am so worried about her.

My shadow

February 9, 2010 in painted diary | 6 comments

9” x 9”
Oil on canvas
February 6 2010

Intlxpatr wondered what our shadows looked like?
According to the Q mine looks like this :)

Leonard

February 3, 2010 in equine portrait, painted diary | 4 comments

9”x 9”
oil on canvas
Leonard

Leonard is the darling of M. He’s a New forest pony, and she used to ride him when she was a kid. After a few years he was sold. And somehow she always longed for him. A few months they found out he was with a girl who was putting him up for sale and her parents brought him back. He is now happily stabled at the farm where the Tarq lives.

This is painted a s a little present for M.
Because she is so nuts about Leonard! :)

The demon cat

February 2, 2010 in cat portrait, painted diary | 7 comments

Februari 2
9” x 9”
Oil on canvas
The Qatteri Cat as the Demon Cat from the ninth circle of hell.

This painting was inspired by this witty post about the Qatteri Cat.

I immediately got a vision in my head when I read the post and saw the picture of the Qatteri Cat she put up. The Qatteri Cat is cool and very sweet. Just to make that clear.
It’s so nice to have visions and be able to paint them right away. :D

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