Good hair

Scanned three new pictures before. Turned out that one came up in black and white in stead of colour and it was a collage so not so good. The second one was ok but I realised I had to change it and the third disappeared mysteriously. So I'm posting an old scan of a pencil sketch. I like the hair on this one. And the glove, one should wear gloves more often.

Back to ink

I've rediscovered ink and here is what I need: my own room with a lockable door to keep little girls-fingers out of reach for black ink, brushes and paint.

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... and autumn leaves I miss. Big ones like maple leaves. Hello it's July! I know. And I do feel a little bit pathetic thinking about autumn leaves but they are beautiful and autumn is my favourite time of the year.

Things that I miss...

I miss city biking on an old squeaky ladies bike with thick tires and a broad, think old sofa type, seat. And the big parcel rack at the back, how good wasn't that? Yes, the olden days again. When not yet everyone wore a bicycle helmet and when the parcel rack not necessarily carried a parcel but one of your friends.

A la recherche du temps perdu....

Please note the old-fashioned radio, coffee cup etc. Am I getting old or what? This picture is not a self-portrait but still feels a lot like me in another time. Like the early 90s, the olden days... At a second thought it is much a picture of my old single-girl-flat.

Avenue Bugeaud

I had a bit of a creative flow the other day and did two new pictures that will make it to the blog. It's just that my flow to scan them is not as..... flowing. Here is another picture though from last week.

Deep thoughts

Deep and uncomfortable, that's how I feel today. Just like this picture. Maybe I shouldn't be posting at all but my one-year old is asleep so I feel I have to dooooooo something. Started of with portraits but ended up explaining and complaining about them too much so it had to wait. But you know what, I'll be back.......

Collage attempt

Here is the same picture before and after me attempting to do a collage out of it. I do like the bird and I also really like the back ground. Then I couldn't make up my mind weather I should use colours or not. However the colour scale in my head wouldn't easily convert to paper so I left it black and white. Later on flicking through a fashion magazine I saw some fabric that instantly put my thoughts back to this picture and there I had the soloution for my colour problem. Experimenting with collage is new to me. It's fun and easy but also a bit overwhelming as you get so many new options for your picture once you start trying. I still think the one at the top need some more work. I just don't know what yet.

The first man

A man's face - how unusual. Why is it so much more fun to draw women? Saying that, I do have some dandyish men pictures in my head that might appear on paper soon.

Feeling orange

I should print this face on a t-shirt and wear it. Hm, I might.

Catch-up

I did this one a while back and it's kind of related to the Cafe Lady. I think I had planned to actually go to Perth and have lunch or a coffee and preferably also see an exhibition, every Monday... Gee, it happend twice I think. Anyway...... Next new term, a lots of new Mondays!

Five chicks and a bird

God knows what this bird is doing in the picture, but then again why not?

Beach dogs

Here is to Dimitri! I said I would take these two ladies to the beach.

Adding some colour. Pink!

Trying something new...

..well it's not a bob.

I always say that I don't have a particular style but I obviously have a thing for women with a bob hairdo. And yes I like the 20s.

Stop and smell the roses!

So frenchy too....... a complete francophile I am. What am I doing in Australia really?

On my mind....

When I start drawing, I hardly never know what type of image I'm going to create but I guess this one and the one below looks to be drawings of the same person. Maybe myself or another person doing what I like to do or thinking my thoughts. Drawing this I started off with the idea of the lonely lady in a cafe. Then I guess I must have started thinking about the food shopping I needed to do that day before picking up the kids at school and the shopping list came out. Because of that this is also one of my my favourite pictures. To me she is a lady who on her way to the shops sneaked of to a cafe, but as your typical mum she has got a constant to-do-list in the back of her head.

Gone shoppin'.... yes I wish! Guess walking with three dogs would be a fairly simular experience to walking with three small children though. When I did this drawing I just wanted to add one little dog into the picture but they were so much fun to draw so I ended up with three.

Being creative

Early this year I made a promise to myself (and my friend Linda) to give myself a good kick in the butt and start to be creative. Eventually this little lady emerged, I really enjoyed it and I love her for that. She is me when in comes to what my creative side looks like. She is "Algerika" I guess.