In this week's publication, I am showing you a small paper work (20 x 20 cms, Ink and water colour on paper). The water colour is Van Dyck Brown that I made myself! From this small composition, I hope to scale up to my usual canvas sizes of 200 x 200 cms. For this particular work, I am planning on starting with a 120 x 120 cms work (for transport reasons) and go on to 2 metres.
Please wish me all success.
​Much light!

In the past weeks I have been experimenting with making my own colours. Here: Prussian Blue!
Me being me, instead of washing out the glass plate, I started using the water colours on handy paper lying around in my Atelier: here inspired by my Geraniums at the window!
​Much light!

My summer in Tuscany has inspired me to make my own colours.
​I have started out with water colours with the intention of using them on my paintings on cotton fabric that I have brought with me from India.
​Here I have tried my first batch of Black and Van-Dyck-Brown on some paper I had at home. 
​I love the results. There is something about working with one's Hands that is so satisfying and exhilarating.
​Much light!

This drawing demanded a lot of patience. I was quite happy doing it, because I was trying out my new feather nib that I had brought back with me from Volterra, in Tuscany, Italy.
The drawng is from a copy from a book that presumably deals with fractals from nature...I do not know since I found this bit of paper lying around at my place of work.
I was admiring the darks and grays and lights and my new feathers, when I had to put my sketchbook down to attend to something else. Alas on a messy table with some water on it as you can see! My first reaction was to curse the ink-maker, because the tiny bottle did not say that the ink was not waterproof. 
But as the paper dried out, I could see the stains (which I quite like) and which bring a dynamics into the drawing. What sometimes seems to be negative in the beginning, could end well after all!
​Much light!