Collages

When I don't have much time, but need to switch to something creative at least for half an hour, I do collages. They free your mind and do not require a lot of preparation. You can just use whatever you have handy.

 The last collage was inspired by Eddie Herder. I love her work!
You can view some of her collages here

Henri Matisse

When working on collages the image of Matisse with scissors kept coming up in my mind. There is a great documentary on YouTube about him here.

Even more collages

More collages

First collages

Female figure studies

Gottfried Bammes suggests to do studies using charcoal powder and ...your finger. It's actually a great way to do quick sketches. Never heard of this method before, but I liked it.

Playing with ice

Sketch on white board

Chalk on black paper

Pistachio men

Male proportions

Exercise on proportions from Bammes book.

Gottfied Bammes book

For quite some time I had a PDF version of this book in German. Had a few failed attempts to translate it. Now it has finally got translated. Bought it on Amazon for less than $40. I think it's a great deal. Tons of material!

Fun in the kitchen

Drawing with juice.

Christmas toys

These are Christmas tree toys I bought in a small town in England about 6 years ago. The are all hand made out of wood. Very old fashioned. I love them.

Having fun with gouache

Watercolor and gouache sketches

My sister was cleaning her studio the other day and as a result I've got quite a load of art supplies: water colors,gouache, oil pastel, etc.. I was dying to try gouache.It reminded me time from childhood. My dad had a gouache set and we loved painting with it.It was such fun!

Charlie's drawing

It always amazes me how effortless kids make their drawings. They don't analyze them or 'work' hard, but what comes as a result is never ugly.

Recent paintings

iPhone doodles

It looks like the only time I get to draw lately is on Go train.

iPhone doodles