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I am Claudia and I love to write and draw for myself. But every now and then I have the need to share my ideas with the world. Read more…

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And before you even realize, a week has past and you forget to post on Instagram, oops. This weekend was quite busy and this ended up in not making art, even though I really want to! On the other side I was in a good art flow during de weekdays (evenings after work) and this gives me hope I am on the right track 🎉. Those creative juices are starting to flow again 😍. Here is another handstudy but a bit spiced up with a magical background. It's actually my own hand so can I call this a self portrait??! 🤔

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"Only look back to see how far you have come" - qoute origin unknown

An older piece of mine when I was really into ballpoint portraits. Learned so much from skipping the sketching fase and just go in fully.

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I love love the sight of a mountainscape, it's so dreamy and relaxing to look at.

This is quite a funny experiment! Over a year ago I bought this old book with a beautiful cover. I should post a picture of the cover soon! It was lying around in my bookshelf and last week I had this fun idea to just paint in it, directly on the written pages! I glued, on both sides, 2 pages together with gesso to make sure the pages can handle the paint. With some more gesso, lots of gesso, as a primer. I eventually added the watercolors on top. Excited for more creations in this old little book.

Tbh, the mountainscape also looks like a big wavy ocean! What do you see in it?

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Thank you so much for the huge and kind response on my last post. Another realization how awesome this community is 🎉. The past couple of weeks I've been doing some reflecting on my art and how I want to evolve. Cause I have the feeling that I am a bit stuck. I tend to use a lot of reference pictures while I am creating, but I feel like it's holding me back on what I truly want to create. So this week I developed some concrete ideas I want to share with you. By doing this I hope to get some more confidence in my own work.

I am gonna follow some online courses on @skillshare about the following topics: drawing hands, faces and using oil paintings. I find hands beautiful to look at but difficult to draw. By learning the basic techniques I can hopefully draw them a bit easier! Same as portraits. My ultimate goal will eventually be to not use any reference pictures at all when I draw hands and faces. Will shall see how far I can get in one year! I really want to share the proces with you all! ❤️ (also for accountability, haha)

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Popping on your feed 🎉. I've been inactive on Instagram due to, well where should I start.. First, I miss you guys! After arriving back home I had a lot to digest, new job, new home, travel heartbreak(?!) and some more personal drama.
All these changes and new obligations overwhelmed me a lot. I ended up with not making much art and asking myself what the h*ll I am doing with my life. I am still asking myself this on this date. Yesterday I wrote this qoute in my journal: "the day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.". So let's just pretend I am currently planting the seed so one day I can bloom to a beautiful flower, how cheesy ❤️. But you know. I am healthy, I have a roof over my head and a job to pay the bills. I should consider myself lucky (this is just a reminder to myself tbh). I also know that on this really big planet I am not the only one feeling like life didn't quite planned out how you wanted to. So to all you guys who feel me, you are not alone. It's okey to not know everything.

But hopefully, by typing this message. I want to get myself prepped again on sharing my art and random stuff on Instagram again! I feel my creative juices flowing really reeeaaally deep down, hidden in a far far away corner. But it's there, I believe it. Let's start this new year fresh and ready! Hello 2020 🎉

I reread this later and really, why do I write this ridiculous stuff sometimes. Posting it anymore, you rock if you read till the end 💃.

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That time when you spontaneously decide to join @thatblondewoman in Berlin while you were a 'tiny' bit jetlegged, it was fun anyway. During my time in Berlin I spend a day in the Botanical Garden to draw flowers and plants. It was quite a challenge to study them while standing. I ended up making a sketch near the flower or plant and finding a bank to finish it with ink later. So here is a little picture of me drawing the first flower!

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