Film Friday – “Keep your hands off my lobby boy!”

  Film Fridays is a project initiated by Darren from over at The Arty Plantsman and me. After doing a daily music challenge for a month last year we talked about doing something similar for movies. And the current global lockdowns give us the perfect excuse to start! Many of us are confined to home with only the

Film Friday – “I Guess You Guys Aren’t Ready For That Yet. But Your Kids Are Gonna Love It.”

Film Fridays is a project initiated by Darren from over at The Arty Plantsman and me. After doing a daily music challenge for a month last year we talked about doing something similar for movies. And the current global lockdowns give us the perfect excuse to start! Many of us are confined to home with only the TV

Film Friday – “Perhaps – I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

    Film Fridays is a project initiated by Darren from over at The Arty Plantsman and me. After doing a daily music challenge for a month last year we talked about doing something similar for movies. And the current global lockdowns give us the perfect excuse to start! Many of us are confined to home with only

Inktober 2019 – Wrap Up

  I actually planned to share the rest of my Inktober drawings with you piece by piece, like I did with the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, but realized that I did far too many drawings to do this in time before Christmas (which unbelievably is due in just a couple of weeks –

The Changing Seasons – August 2019

  It’s time again for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons hosted by my dear friend Su from Zimmerbitch!   First of all I want to apologize for having been quite absent from blogging and for not having visited all your wonderful blogs as much as I wanted to. The reason for this is that I’m dealing with

The Changing Seasons – April 2019

  It´s time again for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons hosted by my dear friend Su from Zimmerbitch!   This month is clearly dominated by one theme – flowers! April started with my beloved cactus showering me with its beautiful flowers! This cactus is a descendent from a plant that belonged to my great-grandmother, and is well

4th of May – Star Wars Day

    Today is Star Wars Day!!! As you can guess from the overexcited use of exclamation marks – I am a fan 😉 I still have many of the posters that used to hang in my room when I was a kid but now they are well hidden inside some boxes holding my teenage

Poker Face

A couple of months ago, I sent my dear friend and author Mary Cathleen Clark an email attached with one of my drawings and asked her, if she would like to write something that would go well with it. And she came up with this one hell of an awesome poem! I didn’t post our combined

Looking forward

It’s 2017! Let’s look forward to new horizons, possibilities, friends and more art! 🙂 My drawing is inspired by a print of an etching by James Whistler, “Count Burckhardt” (publ. 1862).  His impressive use of the chiaroscuro is very likely based on his studies of a collection consisting of Rembrandt prints, who, like Caravaggio, was

Finding “Fairy”

    About two weeks ago my dear friend Patty asked me if I would like to contribute to a blog post about fairies that was going to show up on her new blog The Strix Being very partial to fairies I was determined to give it a try, even with my eye not being