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Tomatoes & Snail
SIZE: 14,8 x 21 cm
PAPER: CANSON® SAUNDERS WATERFORD® Art Book 300g/m² cold pressed
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Light Tomorrow with Today!
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Light Tomorrow with Today!
- the last Page (20) in my 2025 Christmas Sketchbooks -
SIZE: 14,8 x 21 cm
PAPER: CANSON® SAUNDERS WATERFORD® Art Book 300g/m² cold pressed
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH, WINSOR & NEWTON WATERCOLORS
Light tomorrow with today!
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It was such a great joy to create this project and share it with you. Here's the complete sketchbook as a small film.
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Somewhere in my Memory
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Somewhere in my Memory
- Page 3 in my 2025 Christmas Sketchbooks -
SIZE: 14,8 x 21 cm
PAPER: CANSON® SAUNDERS WATERFORD® Art Book 300g/m² cold pressed
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS
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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Ah, Summer
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Ah, Summer
SIZE: 12 in. x 9 in. - 30,5 x 22,9 cm
PAPER: YASUTOMO STONEPAPER 150 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS - ALIZARIN CHRIMSON
PAPER: YASUTOMO STONEPAPER 150 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS - ALIZARIN CHRIMSON
the No. 10 of my monochromatic portrait series
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“Ah, summer – that long-anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It’s a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.”
– Darrell Hammond
for more about this Monochrome Series
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Energized
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Energized
SIZE: 16,5 in. x 22 in. - 42 x 56 cm
PAPER: BRITTANIA HAHNEMUEHLE MOULD MADE MATT 300 g/m² - 140 lbs
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors
2025 © ISABELLA KRAMER
Inspired by Tatiana Stoilova's endless creativity I recharged my batteries with this abstract poppy painting.
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February Girl
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February Girl
SIZE: 15,7 in. x 15,7 in. - 40 x 40 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS
2025 © ISABELLA KRAMER
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Many thanks to @alexeatsplants_ for the inspirational image on Museum by Skytchy.
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In the soul
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in the Soul
SIZE: 20 cm x 20 cm - 5,5" x 5,5"
PAINTING GROUND: AMPERSAND AQUABORD 3 mm
2024 © ISABELLA KRAMER
Happiness resides not in possessions,
and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
— Democritus
May the new year bring new happiness, new goals,
new achievements, and a lot of new inspirations in your life.
Wishing you a year fully loaded with happiness.
Sincerely yours,
Isabella
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A Candy Canes X-Mess
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a Candy Canes X-mess
SIZE: 20 cm x 20 cm - 5,5" x 5,5"
PAINTING GROUND: YASUTOMO STONEPAPER 150 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH, and QOR watercolors
2024 © ISABELLA KRAMER
I couldn't resist to participate at the #foodpaintingchallenge on Instagram this holiday week.
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Spanish Memories
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Spanish Memories
SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm (quarter sheet)
SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm (quarter sheet)
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD RKP FatPad ROUGH 425 g/m²
Inspired by our wonderful Fuerteventura holidays, and my newest patreon teacher Blanca Álvarez Sanchez.
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Meet you under the Mistletoe
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Meet you under the Mistletoe
SIZE: 16 in. x 12 in. - 41 x 31 cm
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD HP White 300 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors
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Oh come, all ye faithful...
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Oh come, all ye faithful...
SIZE: 12,7 cm x 12,7 cm - 5" x 5"
PAINTING GROUND: AMPERSAND AQUABORD 3 mm
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH watercolors
2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER
My second submission for #51 LOST AND SOFT EDGES Challenge at @aligator_watercolor_community.
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Autumn pleasures - three
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Autumn Pleasures - three
SIZE: 15 cm x 15cm - 5,5" x 5,5"
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD FAT PAD 425g/m² (200lb) ROUGH
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors,
2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER
Not much time for painting, but some small autumn doodles must be done and my third one, like every year during fall is some rosehips painting.
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Summer's Poppies Meadow
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Summer's Poppies Meadow
SIZE: 15,7 in. x 15,7 in. - 40 x 40 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²
2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER
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I discovered this impressive place years ago and can't resist coming back and paint its full summer spirit.
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ask the children
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ASK THE CHILDREN
SIZE: 14 cm x 15cm - 5,5" x 5,5"
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD FAT PAD 425g/m² (200lb) ROUGH
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors,
2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
- Johann Wolfgang vo Goethe
- Johann Wolfgang vo Goethe
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I found no time for serious painting but missing my brushes I had to do some miniatures and I must say it feels gorgeous to play with water and pigments again.
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Sweet Dreams
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Sweet Dream
SIZE: 16,5 in. x 22 in. - 42 x 56 cm
PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE MOULD MADE MATT 300 g/m² - 140 lbs
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors
2021 © ISABELLA KRAMER
Inspired by Jean Haines Online Art School - www.watercolourinspiration.com Painting still lifes with fruits is really addictive too and fresh strawberries are the ultimate summer feeling for me.
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Sing Hey! Sing Hey!
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Sing Hey! Sing Hey!
SIZE: 14,2 in. x 18,9 in. - 36 x 48 cm
PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE LEONARDO MOULD-MADE ROUGH 600 g/m²
Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let's all be jolly!
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
Thomas Tusser
Inspired by Soo Beng Lim Artworks, Australia and the "Who is under the Mistletoe" Challenge at Jean Haines's Online Art School.
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The Christmas Mouse
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Die Weihnachtsmaus - The Christmas Mouse
SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)
PAPER: SAUNDERS WATERFORD ROUGH 638 g/m² - 300 lbs
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors
2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER
a midnight window
the quite sorting of gifts
by mice for Christmas
©Alan Summers
(Lagan Online, Small Words: Haiku, Limmerick, and Palindromes) Northern Ireland, 2017
"Santa Hats" is a new challenge at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolourinspiration.com and since my early childhood, I love the poem
" Die Weihanchtsmaus" by James Krüss.
Die Weihnachtsmaus ist sonderbar - sogar für die Gelehrten.
Denn einmal nur im ganzen Jahr entdeckt man ihre Fährten.
Mit Fallen und mit Rattengift kann man die Maus nicht fangen.
Sie ist, was diesen Punkt betrifft, noch nie ins Garn gegangen.
Das ganze Jahr macht diese Maus den Menschen keine Plage.
Doch plötzlich aus dem Loch heraus kriecht sie am Weihnachtstage.
Zum Beispiel war vom Festgebäck, das Mutter gut verborgen,
mit einem mal das Beste weg am ersten Weihnachtsmorgen.
Da sagte jeder rundheraus: Ich hab´ es nicht genommen!
Es war bestimmt die Weihnachtsmaus, die über Nacht gekommen.
Ein andres Mal verschwand sogar das Marzipan von Peter;
Was seltsam und erstaunlich war, denn niemand fand es später.
Der Christian rief rundheraus: ich hab es nicht genommen!
Es war bestimmt die Weihnachtsmaus, die über Nacht gekommen!
Ein drittes Mal verschwand vom Baum, an dem die Kugeln hingen,
ein Weihnachtsmann aus Eierschaum nebst andren leck`ren Dingen.
Die Nelly sagte rundheraus: Ich habe nichts genommen!
Es war bestimmt die Weihnachtsmaus, die über Nacht gekommen!
Und Ernst und Hans und der Papa, die riefen: welche Plage!
Die böse Maus ist wieder da, und just am Feiertage!
Nur Mutter sprach kein Klagewort. Sie sagte unumwunden:
Sind erst die Süßigkeiten fort, ist auch die Maus verschwunden!
Und wirklich wahr: Die Maus blieb weg, sobald der Baum geleert war,
sobald das letzte Festgebäck gegessen und verzehrt war.
Sagt jemand nun, bei ihm zu Haus, bei Fränzchen oder Lieschen,
da gäb es keine Weihnachtsmaus, dann zweifle ich ein bisschen!
Doch sag ich nichts, was jemand kränkt! Das könnte euch so passen!
Was man von Weihnachtsmäusen denkt, bleibt jedem überlassen.
©James Krüss
and a lovely translation by Anonymus
The Christmas mouse is rare I hear, the learned do agree.
For only once upon the year its tracks we come to see.
Neither traps nor well-spread bait will catch the clever mouse.
A skein of yarn won’t suffocate, Though spread throughout the house.
Throughout the year the mouse we say is a friend to humankind.
But it leaves its hole on Christmas day to put us in a bind.
It came to pass that from the Christmas cake that Mother had stashed away,
The very best part of all she’d baked was gone on Christmas day.
Then everyone proclaimed aloud: “I’m not the one who took it!
Last night, I'm sure, both sly and proud 'twas the Christmas mouse who snook it.”
Another time the marzipan of Peter's disappeared.
Surprisingly and without plan It never reappeared.
Then Christian shouted out aloud: “I’m not the one who took it!
Last night, I'm sure, both sly and proud ‘twas the Christmas mouse who snook it.”
A third time from the Christmas tree holding festive decorations
A meringue Santa seemed to flee with other delectations.
Then Nelly shouted out aloud: “I’m not the one who took it!
Last night, I'm sure, both sly and proud ‘twas the Christmas mouse who snook it.”
And Ernst and Hans and Dad all shouted “What a plague this holiday!”
“The evil mouse is back!” they pouted, “and right on Christmas day!”
Only Mother did not make a complaint, but spoke out clear and true:
“Once the sweets have been displaced, the mouse will depart too."
And lo, when the sweets were eaten and the tree laid bare,
they looked about perplexed and beaten: The mouse just wasn’t there.
So when they say that at Fränzchen’s house And also at dear Liesl’s
There really is no Christmas mouse - I do doubt that a little.
But I’m not one to author slights even if you might groan,
Whate’er you think of Christmas mice is up to you alone.
For only once upon the year its tracks we come to see.
Neither traps nor well-spread bait will catch the clever mouse.
A skein of yarn won’t suffocate, Though spread throughout the house.
Throughout the year the mouse we say is a friend to humankind.
But it leaves its hole on Christmas day to put us in a bind.
It came to pass that from the Christmas cake that Mother had stashed away,
The very best part of all she’d baked was gone on Christmas day.
Then everyone proclaimed aloud: “I’m not the one who took it!
Last night, I'm sure, both sly and proud 'twas the Christmas mouse who snook it.”
Another time the marzipan of Peter's disappeared.
Surprisingly and without plan It never reappeared.
Then Christian shouted out aloud: “I’m not the one who took it!
Last night, I'm sure, both sly and proud ‘twas the Christmas mouse who snook it.”
A third time from the Christmas tree holding festive decorations
A meringue Santa seemed to flee with other delectations.
Then Nelly shouted out aloud: “I’m not the one who took it!
Last night, I'm sure, both sly and proud ‘twas the Christmas mouse who snook it.”
And Ernst and Hans and Dad all shouted “What a plague this holiday!”
“The evil mouse is back!” they pouted, “and right on Christmas day!”
Only Mother did not make a complaint, but spoke out clear and true:
“Once the sweets have been displaced, the mouse will depart too."
And lo, when the sweets were eaten and the tree laid bare,
they looked about perplexed and beaten: The mouse just wasn’t there.
So when they say that at Fränzchen’s house And also at dear Liesl’s
There really is no Christmas mouse - I do doubt that a little.
But I’m not one to author slights even if you might groan,
Whate’er you think of Christmas mice is up to you alone.
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time for mistletoe
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time for Mistletoe
SIZE: 42 x 14,8 cm
PAPER: BOCKINGFORD ROUGH 300 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors and a hint of GOLD
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors and a hint of GOLD
2020 © ISABELLA KRAMER
Oh, by gosh, by golly! It’s time for mistletoe and holly!
- Frank Sinatra
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I wasn't satisfied with this version and have darkened the painting. Now I'm unsure if this was the right decision. Whatever, I've learned a lot and this is an exercise for a larger version so everything is okay.
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