Winter Garden Wonderland (Photography)

Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on 3/01/2010

Today my boyfriend and I went outside to build a snowman. I wanted to make some photographs too, and here's the result of both playing in the snow and looking through the lens;

The snowman:

Elvis the snowgull ("Elvis de hippe sneeuw"):

Selection of 'good' pictures:

I wish I had a macro lens. And a telelens. Seriously.

Drawing: The Inner Chaos Carousel

Feelings deep inside.
Inner chaos, the inner carousel.

It's simple, crooked, and not realisticly-seen perfect, but that's not the point of this drawing. I wasn't aiming to draw perfect anatomy or anything, I was trying to express a feeling.

It's good the way it is. And on this rare occasion, I'm quite satisfied with the result.

Doodles From My Dummy (DFMD)

I noticed I've been neglecting this lovely little blog, so I invented a new (a better one, trust me) project for myself. From now on I'm going to post about anything(this means it won't all be very good, but it's about the idea, and to get myself posting) I put in my dummy, my sketch & inspiration book (and loose pictures and things I made). Perhaps I'll also post pictures I like and find inspiring, but we'll just see about that.

As a start I'm going to post some stuff I made in the past. I made some photographs with my little dig. camera, so they're not very good photographs but you get the idea. This blog is mostly for myself (I need an archive thingie) anyway.

Also, those posts will be antedated to the date I made the picture.


Watch my blog and see it grow...

"Flow" (Watercolour - WIP)

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Something I like, something I should finish, something I should do more often.
Sadly, I just don't draw or paint much anymore...

Unfortunately I do not yet have better pictures of this. I hope I'll soon finish this, though, and then I will post more (better!) pictures.

Line-art:


WIP of the painting:


By the way, notice the new watermark? I changed it from "c) Inge van den Broek, http://artbyinora.blogspot.com/" to "c) Inge van den Broek, http://artbyinora.com" since I've already got the link for my website and it redirects you to this blog, so I don't have to make two different watermarked versions for both my blog and my website. ^^

Edit: I noticed something went wrong with the watermark, so now it's one with the link to the blog and one with the link to the website :P Next time I'll get it right... Maybe I'll even replace the already existing pictures with new versions with the new watermark.

DFMD: Abstract(ed) Ballpoint

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Finding the round shapes of the cow interesting, I tried to draw it, not perfectly realistic, but with round shapes.

An abstract building, drawn with my eyes closed most of the time.

Emilie Autumn Gift Project: The Mobile (forum), Part I

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Someone at the Emilie Autumn Forum suggested we would make a mobile for Emilie together, and give it to her at the gig (March the first, 2010, at the Effenaar, Eindhoven, The Netherlands).

These are my first sketches, I might change a lot about them, though.
Also, you'll notice I did a lot of thinking about the mobile/structure itself. My ideas may be a bit complex, but blame the perfectionist in me. It's just thinking anyway, since I won't be the one making the actual mobile, and the person who is will be keeping it simple (which is a very wise thing to do :P)

DFMD: Abstracted Ballpoint Figures

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DFMD: Various

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DFMD: De Woelmuis (The Vole)

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I love voles, so I drew some.

I adore the head, the body is too much like a teddybear's.

More pictures coming soon!

DFMD: Animal inspired make-up and figure

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DFMD: Composition

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Composition.

I really should continue making these, compositions and collages.

DFMD: Planets

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I was trying to come up with something to doodle, when I remembered an old exercise I learnt at a course I once did. You were supposed to grab a very large piece of paper and then draw some circles on it (they always reminded me of planets, I remember giving them names, too...). Then you started drawing straight lines, as neat as you could, and you had to make the lines go around the circles, so you had to start early deforming the lines. The picture should be able to explain it better than I can.

This wasn't necessarily an exercise in (straight) lines, I just like drawing these things...

DFMD: The Rainbow Sheep

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Yes. Sheep. And it gets even better...




Rainbow Sheep!



Blame this all on my boyfriend, since he's the one who sent me an icon of a very, very, colourful little sheep, that bounced. Yes you read it well, it bounced.

I loved it so much I just had to draw it. And keep drawing it.
And then I even made a necklace of it.

As for the future, as soon as I've got enough colours of fabric paint, I'm even going to put this on a shirt. It will be the best shirt ever. Beat that.