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... where abound in the gaieties
which the season generally
brings."
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Sure, there's barely snowfall in Paris, but if it is, and if this happens in December, the whole magic of a Christmas fairytale appears!
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Hey, Santa Claus is coming early this year. He gave me this morning and brought a lot of magic to my atelier with this gorgeous shimmering watercolor palette by lisilinka.watercolors They are by far the shimmeriest watercolor paints I have ever experienced!
I'm thrilled by these amazing pigments!! Warmest thanks, Lisi, for the opal set as a generous gift 😍❤️🙏
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Look what St. Nicholas brought...
That was a painful experience. I tried painting on the back of the sheet, but the pigments didn't react as I expected, and even adding salt didn't produce any nice effects. I never would have thought that could happen on such expensive paper.
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“Tomorrow, children, there will be something…”
Well, Santa Claus isn't coming tomorrow, but in many regions of the world, St. Nicholas is coming hereafter on the 6th. December 🎅🎄⭐️🧸❤️ Reason enough for a further Christmas painting.🎅🎄⭐️🧸❤️
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Painting Day 7 of Kristine Rapohina's 12 Days of Christmas Cards Tutorial.
The funny KI animation is created with #Grok.
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Hier ist für das bezaubernde Weihnachtsgedicht in der Kinder-Gedichte-Welt eine weitere Illustration entstanden.
Enthalten in meinem ersten Kinder-Gedichte-Buch: Kinder-Gedichte-Welt
erhältlich als Hardcover und als Softcover in meinem Blurb Bookstore oder über mich -> Kontaktformular
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“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth, sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
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My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
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Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birthplace of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands forever I'll love.
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by Robert Burns, Scotland - 1789
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The never-finished portrait…
Girl with Chicken
„Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.“
- Winston S. Churchill
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During late summer, I’ve had a great photo shoot with this lovely country girl. Now I’m starting to work on some portrait ideas from it. The first sketches come out fine, but the decision to create a portrait on gesso board was a mistake. I think my respect for the underground was too high, and the more I drew, the more I realized that I can’t do this in the way I wanted.
So I washed up the failed work and applied a new gesso ground…
Let's hope for a better start to the next version 😏
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Das nie vollendete Porträt…
„Erfolg ist, von Misserfolg zu Misserfolg zu stolpern, ohne die Begeisterung zu verlieren.“ – Winston S. Churchill
Im Spätsommer hatte ich ein tolles Fotoshooting mit diesem netten Mädchen vom Land. Jetzt fange ich an, daraus ein paar Porträtideen zu entwickeln. Die ersten Skizzen sind ganz gut geworden, aber die Entscheidung, ein Porträt auf Gesso-Platte zu malen, war ein Fehler. Ich glaube, ich hatte zu viel Respekt vor dem doch etwas teureren Untergrund, und je mehr ich zeichnete, desto mehr merkte ich, dass ich das nicht so umsetzen kann, wie ich es mir vorgestellt hatte.
Also habe ich die misslungene Arbeit abgewaschen und einen neuen Gesso-Grund aufgetragen… Hoffentlich klappt der nächste Versuch besser 😏
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