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Hi all 👋🏻

I wanted to show you some art I’m working on “at the moment” these are all work in progresses/ WIP.
I put a part in between “…” because I’m working on them since yearsss 😳
Let me tell you why?!?!

The Kingfisher / a gouache painting I started in October 2015 and worked on and off on it until April 2016. Dimensions: 29 x 19,5 cm
The reference photo is used with permission from Dave Webb. (Photographer)
This is the stage I’m at:

It looks like it is close to be finished, but it needs many more layers on the feathers on his wing and back. And the branch/moss need more attention. The background is done with my airbrush and the rest I painted with normal brushes. This way you get more depth in the painting.
This oil painting from some oranges I started also in October 2015. This is my first oil painting.
I’m learning how to use oil paints and the technique while painting it. It was Very exciting so far, but it has been in a corner since 2017. Dimensions: 46 x 38 cm
The reference photo is used with permission from Viacheslav. (Photographer)

The oranges and background need more layers and some corrections have to be made in one spot on the paper. (Can you spot it?)
This drawing I started in June 2020. So not that long ago… but still a WIP. Dimensions: 35 x 25 cm
Reference: Some imagination, photos of mine and a photo will be used with permission from Dana Critchlow.

They don’t have any titles yet, as I give them a title once I finish my artworks. (With a few exceptions of course 😉 where I found the title during creating them)

My excuses for not finishing them yet… hhmmmm…🤔 yes, let’s say; life happened and I moved since I started them 10 times… not always as a choice I have to mention!!! Even including in those moves were country moves. From Spain to Malta… living there 1 year (2 moves in Malta) and back again from Malta to Spain. 📦📦📦

So most of the time in the last years I literally was packing and unpacking and packing again Etc. Etc.

The moves always happened for many different reasons. Like being relocated with work, renting a house where suddenly the roof started to collapse so it wasn’t safe to live there any longer, no long term rentals available or the change of work from my partner.

The moves were also never close by. So every time it was a complete new area. What also adds to the next problem: here in Spain paperwork is/ can be very complicated. Even updating documents. So this took also a lot of my time.
But🤓
I think you get the idea by now…
Every time trying to settle in somewhere, trying to create a working space/ a little art room or even an art studio. Trying to start, but life changes were happening again.

It does takes its toll I have to say and with me that was me not creating my art. 🎨

For me, and this is my personal experience since I started my art in 2011 as a self taught new artist: I have to be in the right Mindset to create, to be able to paint or draw. Most of the last 5 years I just couldn’t get there ➡️ In my “Happy Space” in the only free moments I had.

Where I would forget the world around me… where I can create for hours and hours and even would forget to eat or drink…. loose myself in my art while creating.

Everything fades away around me. I know I put on some music, but even that fades away eventually. I know some of you will understand exactly what I mean 😉

I did start a painting in 2015 and another drawing last year 2020 that are finished. I will show them in a new post a little later on😊
I did do a few commissions too, including painting murals inside of a villa or even logos/murals on the outside of a restaurant in Málaga.
But here… in this post, I’m mostly talking about my own art, my own creations.

Art is always on my mind… I see it all around me, I WILL get into my WIP again soon.

and

I Start something new, a drawing, like I have done in the past to get into my art again. So watch my space 😎

As said “ I will post some steps and more details from above artworks in my next posts” as well as some of my other artworks with step by steps. Just wanted to give you with this post a little more insight into my art and me. Tell you about some of my life challenges and adventures from the last years. And believe me, more to come!

The next photo is during an exhibition in Málaga center, working on the kingfisher in 2015. Behind me are other works by me.