The amateur art association 'Goed Gezien - Goed Bekeken' has for each month of this year a challenge and I am planning to participate in all of them.
The February challenge is 'Breakfast' and I decided to make a picture of my Sunday morning croissant with homemade blackberry jelly before I had eaten all of it and use that for my painting.
Of course there is more to my Sunday breakfast, like tea and some more bread but this is my bit of luxury every weekend and I take my time to enjoy it.
I have made a mixed media painting, adding metallic pencil for the knife and some Graphitint for the bits of jelly on the knife. There is also some iridescent medium on the knife and the edge of the plate.
The iridescent medium does not really show in a picture like this, it is only visible when looking at the watercolour painting from a side.
Painting in answer to a challenge or a contest is always a good thing to do because in these cases I paint subjects I do not usually choose. In this case I have surprised myself, the croissant looks much better than I thought it would.
So now I am looking forward to the next challenge - March.
More information about this painting (materials used, size, availability, contact information, etc) can be found at my website www.jannekesatelier.webs.com
This is in answer to a challenge by 'Goed Gezien - Goed Bekeken', the amateur art association of which I am a member. There will be a challenge each month this year and the January challenge is to depict 'yourself' as good as possible.
That is not an easy task, so I started thinking. The boiling kettle with things coming up that are important to me is a nice alternative to a self portrait.
What is coming up in the bubbles are a palette and brushes of course and a book with a cup of coffee (or tea) are also included. My walking boots and a compass which stands for the signposted walks I like to do with my husband are also visible, as well as a shawl (I almost always wear one outside the house and sometimes even inside). And my baking and cooking passion is depicted with a cake. In some of the smaller bubbles are stars.
The kettle is placed in a forest landscape, the trees are also essential to me.
I have used watercolour, of course, but I have also used a lot of my pencils and charcoal for the underside of the kettle, where it is blackened by the fire.
In this painting I have used the kettle with all the different bubbles as an image for my various hobbies and passions and I have used the landscape setting because that is my most important subject when I am painting.
It really was fun making this up, sketching and painting/drawing this, but I don't think I will do this very often.
More information about this mixed media painting (all the materials used, size, contact information, etc) can be found at my website www.jannekesatelier.webs.com
