Sometimes luck is a funny thing: Looking for spice jars I found a complete set of 10 antique Delft porcelains jars on a flea market for next to nothing. They look wonderful but now I’m much too afraid to use them. And where to put my spices? Daily Painting about chasing a lucky pig 2 May 2010, 7:52 pm Follow the lucky pig, the tides seemed to say, watercolour, 8,7 x 28,5 cm
International Labour Day! I set up the flag, because I see myself as a good old-fashioned craftswoman, bent over the workbench and ruining my eyes in the candlelight – but at the same time enjoying New Media and Web 2.0, a bit schizo, isn’t it? Daily Painting about flags 1 May 2010, 7:33 pm Flag in the wind, watercolour, 17 x 12 cm
When I hear news about problems in the Eurozone and the imminent collapse of the global economy, I refuse to understand the dimensions they’re talking about. For me it’s hard enough to keep my bank account under control. Daily Painting about clutching straw 29 April 2010, 7:13 pm Time again to clutch any straw, watercolour, 25 x 22 cm
What a fabulous weather! I went into the garden and let the warm wind dry the tears and the sun enlighten the darkness in my soul. The saddest time in year is finally gone now and I’m looking forward to May. Daily Painting about bathing season 28 April 2010, 8:09 pm Bathing season opened – now, pencil on watercolour, 27 x 21 cm
Today was the second anniversary of the death of my beloved father. I still mourn his death. Everyday I have the feeling he is with me, so I think he can hear when I sing a lullaby for him. Daily Painting about the power of a lullaby 27 April 2010, 7:53 pm About the nearly superhuman power of the lullaby, felttip pen, watercoloured, 16,5 x 29 cm
Today I was invited for lunch and after drinks were ordered, the children started to order little drawings on the serviettes: a horse, a goat, my mother… I did it all, but now I have so many pictures in my mind that I better pack them into a Daily Painting and pass them on! 25 April 2010, 7:41 pm Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.
Each day it’s a pleasure for me to see that there are people all over the world that I seem to touch a little bit. Sometimes it is as if you are looking right into my mind and my heart. So this Daily Painting is a big thank you and a bow to all who can see with their hearts 24 April 2010, 7:38 pm Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.
This is the birthday of Martin Kätelhön, the art printer, and he wanted as present a walk in the woods with dogs. I could provide both. he nearly is a lifetime friend and I was happy to have him here today, because friendship is a rare wealth. Daily Painting about capital 23 April 2010, 8:08 pm The capital friendship, watercolour and charcoal, 29,7 x 22 cm
It’s so annoying: my plants are rattling at the windows to get out in the warm sun after the long winter but we have hard frost during the nights. Isn’t it enough that I have to carry the tortoises in and out every day? Daily Painting about irrational plants 22 April 2010, 8:06 pm Lust for house plants, watercolour, 21 x 16 cm
You know this: when you’re stepping out of the shadow, you have to be very, very careful. You never know on which high wire you’ll find yourself. When I finished this painting, I said to myself, it’s not only a Daily, it’s my Everydaily Painting. Daily Painting about shadows 20 April 2010, 7:50 pm Who’s stepping out of the shadow, watercolour and pencil, 30 x 21 cm