Tag Archive: painting
I have been wanting to post a blog entry about Paper by 53 for a long time. About 6 months ago, I was very enthusiastic when it was the first time I got to try this app on my iPad. I felt like I finally found the one that I really love and would use [...]
Some beautiful female (children) painting pieces that I recently fell in love with, including the works of Pino Daeni, Richard Johnson, Vladimir Volegov and of course the forever fascinating Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Pino Daeni: I like this guy’s works so much. They made me completely speechless. I had to hold my breath every time when I [...]
My husband and I have been talking about filling a blank wall in our living room. We both agreed that, a black and white portrait in a big white frame would fit in perfectly. It has been almost two months….nothing is really getting done at all. Firstly we could not find the frame that we [...]
As I had wished for a very long time, I finally got a mount board home and ready to go with my DIY framing for my favourite four paintings. I call it “Four Seasons”. They were painted by Xiao Xue, a young but talented artist who lived in Zhou Zhuang, Suzhou, China. My husband bought [...]
A quite boring afternoon without any phone calls. I was browsing one of the borrowed books from the library, page by page, picture by picture. Next to me was a set of Staedtler coloured pencils, half-way used probably by some visitors’ kids. I got my sketch journal book out and started to imitate one of [...]
Recently I have been re-reading an old book, A Year In Provence by Peter Mayle. It is actually one of the great favourites of mine for all these years. I am not a reading person at all. I don’t have a moment of reading a book on the train or on the bed. I would [...]
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