I am wishing you all a very Happy New Year. May it be blessed with health, joy, peace, luck, enough money, success in your career and all what you wish.

I want also to say "Thank you"  for your support in 2009.

There is a new figurative painting to show

I already have my first painting of a young child sitting at a river completed in 2010. It is painted on Aquabord in watercolor, size is 11x14".

This little girl with her pink dress and pink shoes sits at a river and she got wet feet.

For our Christmas exchange with some artists friends on Artcolony I painted our black cat "Timmi". The reference photo of Timmi was done some days before we lost him. It was the first time that I painted him. This painting went to Kay in USA and she told me that she loves the painting very much. So my surprise for her was perfect.

The painting is around 9x12 and painted in watercolor on Reeves Watercolor Board.

I also finished finally my figurative painting of "Ines". It is also watercolor, painted on Fabriano Watercolor paper, size is: 12x24".

If you are searching for some special art please keep in mind that I do take commissions. Since all other commissions for Christmas are completed I am having free time to take new commissions, if this is for a Rose or Flower painting, a portrait or a pet portrait or whatever you want. Please contact me without any obligations using my contact form here.

It is again a long time since I have posted here. I was working on another figurative painting in oil. The model was my daughter and we discovered this field full of flowers in Netherlands, when we did our vacations there this year. My daughter found this hat by her own at H&M and the dress was discovered at an antique market there. So it was the perfect stuff and my daughter was more than pleased to walk through the flowers and pick them.
I have tried to work again with the same palette, which I am using with watercolors and which I used already on my latest rose painting Rose Ghislaine de Féligonde - see this post on my blog

For the flowers I added Permanent Rose and cobalt violet.

For medium I am always using Walnut oil and Walnut Alkyd Medium - both are from M. Graham. I do not like to use any toxic mediums. Walnut oil and the fast drying Walnut Alkyd Medium are perfect and they are all what I need.

Here is a close up about the face and the hands.

I still have not found a title yet, any suggestions? Size of the painting is 20"x24".