Anything ~ Little painting

 
Anything. Acrylics, ink and graphite on Arches hotpress watercolour paper.
12,70 x 17,78 cm / 5" x 7 " 2013.
Available: €100,- (around 131,- USD)

I wanted to make 5 little paintings and this is the last one of the serie with the theme "hair". I surprised me to see that I struggled with the one that I thought was going to be easy. And the one that started as a difficult one ended up nice and easy.
With Golden Fluid paint I don't need the white ink pencil anymore. Thin lines are possible now. 
In the picture that I used for reference I saw a little red insect inside of the flower and I thought that it would be nice if they walked out of the 'diagonal flower world' on the left top corner.  

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There was one painting I just couldn't finish, because I tried too many times to sketch on top of layers of acrylic and the paint makes the surface too smooth for pencil and it has a plastic kind of feeling to it. So it's not possible to blend properly. So, I scribbled on it and it felt good. Normally I don't do that, but this was a never ending story and now I can leave it alone.

Like a tattoo

 Like a tattoo.  Acrylics,ink and graphite on Arches hotpress watercolour paper.
12,70 x 17,78 cm / 5" x 7 " 2013.
Available: €100,- (around 131,- USD)
info@marjoleincaljouw.nl

Sometimes it's hard to draw on top of acrylic paint, because the layers have plastic kind of surface. So if I make a lot of mistakes it's going to be much more difficult to fix it. But if I use thin layers it works. So the challenge is to get it right the first time...

I've painted this one twice because I didn't like the first version. (you can see that one on the right) I like the sketch though.

Daydream ~ Little painting

Daydream. 
Acrylics, ink and graphite on Arches hotpress watercolour paper.
12,70 x 17,78 cm / 5" x 7 " 2013.
Available: €100,- (around 131,- USD)

Just like in my sketchbooks I tried to combine black thin lines on top of a coloured painting to give it more dimension.  

The flowers are drawn with a black ballpoint, the background is acrylics and the shadows are made with a mechanical pencil. I love the contrast of the sharp black lines against the soft acrylics.

Free Fall - Little painting -

Free Fall, acrylics, ink and graphite on Arches hotpress watercolour paper.
12,70 x 17,78 cm / 5" x 7 " 2013.
*This one is sold. But these are available for €100,-(around 131,- USD):
http://www.marjoleincaljouw.nl/Resist
http://www.marjoleincaljouw.nl/Daydream

I wanted to make several little paintings at the same time, so I can switch between images and... I am loving it. Quicker results, experimenting with colours and shapes. Really discovering new ways to paint and I can use that for my bigger paintings on woodpanels. 

Groupshow "We Are Bored" Amsterdam 5 april

I'm joining a groupshow "We Are Bored"

When: Opening friday 5 april, 18:00

Where: We Are Void Gallery, Ferdinand Bolstraat 1, Amsterdam.

With:

•  Dennis Lier http://dennislier.tumblr.com/
•  Fleur Bult http://fleurbult.nl/
•  Leoniek Bontje http://www.leoniekbontje.nl/
•  Lo-Fang (Matthew Hemerlein) Crazy talented:

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