Let your art guide you - weekly challenge

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
Marc Chagall

Some "art of heart" cards i did from the design i posted the other week. They were meant as a B-day present for a friend, but if i find time to add some more variations, i might put them in an Etsy-shop. I found beautiful matching envelopes in different shades of pink - such fun to play with these things!
The rose and wildflower bouquet is a present i got from a dear friend who came to tea last sunday - pure luxury



I've started on three new paintings too, but they need some more time to ripen and be presentable. Now, that the days are longer i enjoy having some artist time in the evenings. Sometimes that means, just looking at things and offering elderflower-champagne to the muses :)

Let your art guide you - weekly challenge

Still working on the peonies. I've posted this painting the other day, but this time painted the flowers.


No finished artworks, just glimpses of my messy studio.
I've been playing with shades of blue, letting the colour run and drip while contemplating about water and how precious it is. Can't get that oil spill out of my save the live of the ocean - but what to do?




Meanwhile my friend Andrea saved a little baby titmouse her son found on the street, naked and almost dead. With a lot of love, warmth and many insects they managed to bring it to live, and it grows from day to day, growing feathers and flapping it's tiny wings. Reminds me of a quote i read the other day by mother Theresa:
"We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love"

I hope you've had some creative adventures as well and can't wait to visit you soon!

Let your art guide you - weekly challenge

Moving hearts. Our heart can smile, love, fly, cry, sing and dance. It's colour may change from day to day, from a pale pink glow to a deep crimson fire and it carries us through all of lives ups and downs. It has a language of it's own that can be translated into poetry, music or painting. A little game of watercolours for our creative thursday.

Let your art guide you - weekly challenge

Poppies are so beautiful - but you cannot pick them and put them into a vase! This painting is called "Poppy girls", and somehow i felt drawn to deep and passionate red. The week's been hot with tension for me, lots of work, difficult things to deal with, hot and damp weather - and red seemed just the colour. Now i feel ready to plunge into deep blue water and relax.
What's your favourite colour at the moment?

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Let your art guide you - weekly challenge

I'm a day late with this post, but somehow, yesterday was over too quickly for me. It was a holiday here in germany, and we slept in, had a long family breakfast, followed by some work for the magazine and then coffee and cake with a dear friend who just moved.

I was in a dreamy mood, not feeling very active, and so i played a bit, again with an unfinished painting and some collage pieces. I have so much fun doing this at the moment - it gives me new ideas - maybe to combine naturalisticly painted parts with a free style. I love the phase, were a painting has a lot of opportunities - it could be this, it could be that ... and playing is vital to art!

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Let your art guide you - weekly challenge

Another week in the challenge and another birthday picture - this time for Robin, our talented photographer who just turned 20! I was playing with collage and arylic colour to create a stunning image that combined elements of photography and painting.
Sadly, he hasn't had time yet to celebrate properly, for he had to run for the train this morning, to apply at art-school in Essen, a far away town. But hopefully tonight, there will be champagne and something nice to eat.


How's your week been so far? Here, it's raining shoestrings and mice - not typicall at all for the lovely month of may. To enjoy sunshine we have to travel blogland or our own creativity. The good thing is - everything's getting greener and greener and everything grows - not just grass, but also the flowers of imagination!



Now, that's him - with an awesome self-portrait. Check out his work at Flickr
One of these days i'll post some of my favourite pix.

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Let your art guide you - weekly challenge 12

Red flowers - but in a more abstract form was my project for this weeks art challenge. I've started on these a while back and went on in a playful manner, mainly concentrating on the colours and how they enhance others glow.
Now i'm in the mood to continue like this on a bigger canvas - let's see!

Meanwhile i was pondering on - if we see ourselves as a colour - your good friends are those, who make you glow stronger. If you could picture yourself - which colour would you be?

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Let your art guide you - weekly challenge 7

Week 7 for me in the weekly challenge. Somehow, time has been kind'a bumpy for me in the last 3 weeks. Hard times at work, a bad spring-cold that kept me sniffing and coughing plus 3 business trips that were promising but exhausting. Still it felt good to devote a little time to painting, even if i didn't get as far as i wanted to.

The painting with the bowl full of roses was something i had begun a year ago and worked on again, since these colours felt soothing and relaxing somehow. It's not really roses time yet, but the cherry-trees are in full bloom with exact these shades of pink, accompanied by yellow things like daffodils and forsythia, so the mood seemd right. I'm aiming at something more abstract in the flower-department that i'm hoping to show you in the week to come.

Meanwhile, i'm all curious to see your new posts and will visit you very soon!
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Photo with the cherry blossoms: Rüdiger Trautsch from Hamburg

Let your art guide you - weekly challenge 5

I have to admit that somehow, i missed a day in this week. Monday i still lived in sunday, tuesday in monday and today my hubby just told me that no, it's not wednesday but thursday. So, for the creative challenge i'm showing you a crafty project that was done for the magazine, but nevertheless is creative and fun.



Some cute handmade ideas for a spring invitation - for tea, lunch or dinner.
The collage style-cards are made of pretty wrapping-paper. Cut floral shapes and glue them on to plain cards.
To make the garland, cut paper in diamond shapes and fold them over a cord or string. Glue halfs together and vary colours. This is a fun project for kids too.


Making collages is really good, when you got stuck with painting. Somehow it frees the mind - maybe, because you can take it as a game instead of real art. But playing is vital for real art and sometimes, the best ideas come, when you least expect them - give it a try!

The lovely knitted flowers on the plates are made by my friend Anne-Claire, who will publish her own blog soon.

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A last minute easter decoration idea - for those of you, who couldn't get your paints out and colour these eggs properly - like me! Just dress them up with nice ribbons, leftovers will do pretty well here. Fix them with a bit of glue and enjoy - makes your table look festive in a minute.
Boy, this week flies by! I'll be gone over easter, visiting my sis in Munich and play with my niece Emma, 5, and hope to do some crafty projects with her for the magazine.
Have a great time all of you, i so appreciate all the inspiration i get from you every day! And link in with us, i you haven't already, at art n'sewl!

Let your art guide you - weekly challenge

This is what i did yesterday for our weekly art challenge. It's a small stillife - and it was an interesting experience, because i worked much faster, then i normally would. Just started with an idea and see what i could do with it, in a limited amount of time. Usually i never finish a painting in almost one go, because i work in layers and need time to know, what i want to happen. The good thing is: i took some time for painting when normally, i'd have felt too tired or whatever. Am curious already, what the others will come up with.

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