I started a new drawing this weekend. Just a little fun and colourful one. As soon as we get our drawing table up and working I am going to start on a large painting I have planned.

Late last year I did my first painting. I was visiting my friend and stayed up most of the night painting. It really intrigued me and mesmerized me in a way I hadn't thought.
It made me want to paint more as it wasn't completely bad - considering it was my first time painting an actual figure.

In January I bought a lot more paint and did a new painting of a little gold fish. It's still not all completed but I decided to post it anyway, so you can see the beginning of my painting adventure :)
I am not sure if I will finish it anytime soon but it did enjoy learning while painting this. It's very very different from the way you draw and it took some time for me to make it work.
It's a little hard to tell on this photograph but the cold shimmers in real life and give a more round feeling.

I am painting with acrylic and I only invested in some cheap paint that had premixed colours to start out easy :)


The canvas is 40x40cm (16x16")

I have another much bigger drawing in mind, when I dare to. With our new drawing table it might be easier to work with since it's hard to have a huge canvas at the couch.

Nothing like spending time with the person you love the most - shopping for print paper and stools ;)

It's been a while since we went to IKEA, I don't really like going there unless it's very very early in the morning or very very late - it's the only time you can avoid too many people with the same idea. It can be a bit exhausting to shop there unless you just go after what you need.

We finally got our bar stools for the kitchen, after 3 months of wait. It was great to finally get them. Now we can sit and eat and relax while the other one cooks, which will be really great, especially in the summer time when it's not so cold in the kitchen.
It's pretty cool they made them in 2 sizes, 63cm or 74cm we got the lower one which means I can touch the floor - yay for that ;)


We are slowly turning out home into our dream home. Another amazing buy we did was a new drawing table. We've wanted this table especially since late 2009 but at the time we moved here and finally had the money and space it was sold out. Little did we know it was there again when we walked by.
Words can't describe how happy I am.
I've never had a drawing table before, always drew on the couch but I think it will be good for my back to actually sit near a table and not curled up at the couch, though it's incredible comfortable, I got to admit =)


All in all a good day ♥

This drawing was inspired by a sadness I have at the moment. Sometimes I just get so disappointed in people, I feel like you never really know people and sometimes I feel like I should just stop letting people in. Then again, I don't want to turn into a cold person and I want to believe in the good in people even though lately it's been hard.
I guess I'm just a little blue. Today the sun is shining and I feel much better.

Me holding the drawing, to show just how small it is:

After my time consuming Snow White drawing I felt like creating a black and white charcoal drawing with a dark mood for a change. The concept is hardly anything new but still I felt like drawing this, just to relax with my beloved charcoal. I saw the beautiful stock photo of Liam-Stock, whom I have used quite a few times last year and I knew I had to draw it: link

Made with soft charcoal.
29.7x40cm | 11x16"

After my very detailed Snow White drawing I really felt in the mood for a black and white charcoal drawing. I needed something simpler, faster and a little test for an upcoming commission I am doing for a beautiful girl.

Today we had take-out. I had nachos and it was heavenly. I really really love that =)
Gave me lot of energy for drawing.
I'm starting on some bigger projects very soon and need to get an idea for something special and dark, still not sure what to create yet but I guess it will come to me soon.

Sweet dreams.

I am very happy to finally show my finished drawing; Sleeping Beauty (Snow White).
It took me almost 6 full days of work to complete this. Needless to say the ivies took me an incredible amount of time. For some reason my patience have been extra good this year.
The model is Debbie Smith, whom I have used numerous times. When she started posting at the ZindyZone Forum I fell for her unique beauty. When she posted a stock series of Snowwhite photos I fell for the pose and decided to do a Sleeping Beauty.
Photo: link I have to admit I didn't try as hard to resemble her as I usually do, I mainly used the pose but you'll hopefully still recognize some of her features.
The drawing is all done with colour pencils and Lana drawing paper.

Thanks for the encouraging comments to the wip.

I think my next drawing is going to be Gothic/dark :)

She's available at: link