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My Art Workshop

Step into my world of creation.

Embarking on this blog since 2014, I’ve curated a visual chronicle of my imaginative endeavors. Here, you’ll uncover my kaleidoscope of raw work each narrating a chapter of my artistic evolution as I hone my skills and grow as an artist. 

August 22 - 2023

 

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266. Sloth Bear Baloo

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on August 15, 2023 17:04


265. Beehive

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on August 14, 2023 21:47


264. Sketchdaily Watercolors Start Up

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on August 13, 2023 20:23

I ran out of small circles to draw patterns in when I was on vacation. Perhaps I had enough of patterns too. But I was not done drawing – which was the entire point of the patterns! I still wanted to work with no stress and no huge commitments, but I also needed a little push to keep going. So I looked up Sketchdaily on Reddit that I worked with years back. They had an art exchange with deadline for signup in about a week and the requirements was that participants needed a streak of at least 15 (aka 15 days of drawing). I always wanted to try out being part of an art exchange so here was the push I needed! And so the drawing continued. One drawing a day was my goal, but at the beginning I did have to catch up a bit more to reach the requirements before deadline, so I drew and painted the daily prompt plus a day’s prompt that had already passed. I find I absolutely love the format of a daily watercolor and the community at Sketchdaily is super supportive too. My only problem now is to catch up the blog here because the pile of drawings to show off here is growing rapidly. So here are my renditions of the last 27 days of Sketchdaily prompts, with the newest from today first 🙂

“Angry Fish”
“High Society”
Free draw Friday (FDF) I chose to paint an alpine flower I saw on my recent vacation
“Regatta”
“Embroidery” Uhm …well… that somehow turned into a garden snail today 😀
“Bump in the night”
“Gloomy”
“Circle of Life”
“Dusty old books”
Free draw Friday – I went for a girl in my regional costume
“Large Birds”
“Disguise”
“Sandwiches”
Microscopic
“Witches”
“Ogre”
Free draw Friday – I went for an Air balloon.
“Arches”
“Irritant”
“Loud Things”
“Wanted”
“Glass”
“Hedgehog”
“Free draw Friday” I went for a very quick owl.
“Judge”
“Sad lost puppy”
“Warning Sign”

Whew! And with that we are all caught up with my drawings, paintings and sketches 🙂



260. Vintage Flower Lady

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on August 1, 2023 16:01


258. Castello di Badia Well

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on April 21, 2022 02:24

For Easter we went on a cycle trip to Tuscany. We stayed at Airbnb Castello di Badia in Poggibonsi. The landscape and the surrounding towns like San Gimignano, Volterra and Monteriggioni are amazing and cycling on the old pilgrimage road “Via Francigena” offers some stunning views (and some evil uphill battles 😉 but this castle where we stayed was absolutely magical. I Had to draw the well and found a bright sunny spring day to spend hours playing with this project. I think it’s the first time I let a drawing actually fill up a double spread in my sketchbook:

And after having painted with watercolor and colored pencils – and a bit of post scan editing to fix the center of the book crease:

The sketchbook is not really made for watercolor and it shows in how much the paper is buckling when wet. But even though that is in some ways annoying, painting on this rather cheap paper in an actual sketchbook also has a certain gritty charm to it that I really like. That said it could be interesting to repaint this on real watercolor paper too just to see the difference. Here is the well from a slightly different angle:



250. Pitigliano – Tuscany

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on October 2, 2020 15:51

Impressions from a fairytale village in our Tuscany trail trip, Autumn 2020.



249. Autumn Flowers

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on October 2, 2020 14:59


240. Coconut head

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on August 16, 2018 22:12

Mom travels. On her walls hangs souvenirs from faraway countries and exciting adventures. This guy here is…I think…from Bali. He is a mask made out of a coconut. I borrowed him for a sketching and watercolor practice session.



239. The detective and the rat in watercolor

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on August 16, 2018 01:13

The detective and the rat – now in color 🙂



236. Old Crocus Watercolors

Watercolor Posted by Malene ThyssenPosted on June 2, 2018 16:46

These paintings are not new. I made them back in the early 90’ies and they are some of my very first paintings in watercolor ever. I remember it was early spring, and I had brought two crocuses inside and arranged them in a tiny glass of water. Painting them was difficult, as I tried very hard to keep those thin delicate lines on each leave white. That’s a difficult task. But considering those two paintings were my very first, I think I did a good job.

For decades the two paintings have lived a life on my kitchen walls. I know my mom loves them, so I decided to use the paintings to create a birthday card for her a week back. The original paintings have somewhat faded by now, but scanning them I was able to color correct them, to restore them to their former glory. It was nice seeing them again, as they looked when they were new.



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