Beautiful Tulip #2

Using the same tulip, I painted this piece. I wanted to experiment with how it would look to switch the focus. Using the same techniques, I chose to make the background busy with color. This is the results! Where do the lines of nature take us?!

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Beautiful Tulip #1

Using the techniques from Dorine de Soet, kunstatelier Zutphen, I created this piece! This was the first piece that I made during the workshops with her.

Vivid colors and practice with drawing were main focuses in this painting. Dorien encouraged me to use colors that meant something to me. I chose vivid colors because they make me happy when I see them! Hope springs up!

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Celebrations

“Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.” Quote from The Artist Way by Julia Cameron

I made this painting before this book came into my life. Now, looking back, it has been also a stepping stone for furthering my creative side. I was exploring color once again and also composition. The overall feeling this painting gives me personally is celebrations! There isn’t something specifically to be seen in the painting, except that which you may see!

I liked the soft colors and the curly movements that appeared. Celebration of life itself and creativity all around!

Acrylic
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Fantasy in orange

In my exploration of color and layers, I’ve made this piece. I was concentrating on composition. I wasn’t following any lessons in abstract painting at this time. I just had the desire to experiment with color and composition. I am interested in learning what other people see in this painting! Using the imagination is a God given talent! I am willing to take on the challenge!

Fun fact: the color orange stands for worship, they say!

Acrylic
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The cross

During a painting workshop I was giving, I made this painting. I was helping others to create and use their talents to make a piece of art they would be proud of to take home. And home was all over the world, because it was the international convention of Christian Camping International!

I am searching for the creative side in myself and this painting was a stepping stone to finding that side. Red is the color of the blood of Jesus, his salvation that He gave on that cross. His resurrection are represented in the other colors and together they form a painting of lines that build the foundation of my faith in God, the creator of all creation.

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Happy Chestnut

I’ve named this painting so because of its origins!

My neighbor has a gigantic chestnut tree in his garden. Every autumn I get a box full of chestnuts from him. Sometimes I use them in my daycare with the kids, not for creative projects but as open material to stimulate fantasy!

But for this painting, I put together a sort still life composition with a chestnut and it’s leaves with other branches and plants from the garden.

Then I let my fantasy go wild with colors!!

Acrylic
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Stained Glass

After exploring some pictures of stained glass, I decided to make a composition with color and black.

The black lines within a stained glass are interesting. In themselves they are not very appealing; just black. But the addition of color and glass makes a whole different look!

I wanted to experiment with the black lines and then to add colors just like real stained glass…

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The Womb!

I was thinking of what I wanted to paint for my Christmas painting. We had just been to the European parliament, and there was a magnificent painting totally in red there! I thought it was just beautiful! I started to explore myself with red and the use of light and dark techniques.

At the same time I was thinking naturally about Christmas and what it meant to me. I was listening to Christmas music while painting and the song Emmanuel, God with us came on. I felt impressed to name this painting as such, The Womb!

Jesus was born, a man, but still God. He is with us and in Him we see the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, three in one! Christmas may be many things for many people but for me, the birth of Jesus is extra special being a mother myself.

The moment of birth giving is one that cannot be totally explained. Technically you can talk about it and that’s ok, but how it totally affects you is undescribable.

Thank you, God, for giving your son. And thank you, Mary, for giving birth to the one who saves!

Jesus is really, the reason for the season!

Acrylic
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