Another Passion

After a few weeks of peeks in others home's I thought it would be nice to show you my room. I think it is one of the fullest rooms you can imagine, and I am not showing all parts or full walls, just a few. Now that I'm showing pieces of my room I wanted to share my other passion beside jewelry making, is painting. I go twice a week to a course here in town to make time for it and I love it.

As mum's birthday is the 20th of December I wanted to give her something special and handmade. Beside some lovely wall hangings from HeliS, I made a portrait of her. If you know our avatar of our shop you know the girl with a big bunch of branch hair, that is a selfportrait I made a few years ago. I wanted to make such a portrait of mum too. By the 20th I was almost ready, and now we are in March I'm still almost ready LOL. I got stuck with it as she looks a bit like Medusa. Her face is not completed either, especially the eyes and mouth have some work to do, but I got mostly stuck at the hair. Mum thought about making stencils of real tree leaves and then stamp them, but I don't like that idea. Maybe I should make some finer branches? Any ideas are welcome, I need some more eyes as I have been looking at it for too long! I guess mum will have to wait a little longer for her birthday present.

This is the picture I made it from, somehow it got all cracked, looks vintage but it isn't!

In the mean time, I started and finished some other drawings untill I see the light for the portrait. The first one is an African tree, I found the photograph in National Geographic and loved the structures and perspective.

Then I made this huge eye, found the inspiration of this one in a fashion magazine with an ad for make up. Hardest part was the eyebrow. I'm waiting for it to dry completly so I can add the shiny part on the iris, just a white dot to finish it.


And now that I'm on it here some older paintings I made in the past years. I'm not a fan of reproducing famous paintings, but I love Mona Lisa and wanted to make her in my own style and color palette.

The hands worked out good, I think.


Only thing that is bothering me is that the nose is too thin which makes it look too long, but I won't touch it, that's the way we learn it, by mistakes.

Here another full wall in my room, you can see our avatar (selfportrait) on the left side and some little drawings. The big bright one on the right was my final project for my art history class with the theme inside and outside. There for the sea and boat is coming in to the room, inside and outside got mixed together, and it brought me through my exams so it has a special place for me.

My bathroom, which I don't use to shower, is the place where I keep my easels and wet paintings, my room is about to explode...

Today I went to drawing class, just like every wednesday and thursday, here you can see the class. Mostly women, these courses are arranged by the municipality for very low cost and perfect for housewives and the people who only work in summer time (like most people do here because of the tourism).

I sit in the hall, nice light and quite as the ladies chat a lot, you can see what I'm working now at, I almost finished this one today, I took this picture before I started.

This is what I see from the window of the class, the main boulevard and the beach.