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Each week, along with the Sketchbook Skool students, I am doing the homework assignment from the kourse called “Beginning”. Except for last week, because I taught that klass myself. We’re in the third week now and this week’s teacher is Prashant Miranda. From India, he inspires the klass to draw the sky – no matter where in the world you are.
I did my homework in Amsterdam, looking out of my living room window and up to the clouds. I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing with my watercolors and I don’t even know if I particularly like the art that I made, but it was great fun to play with my watercolors and step out of my comfort zone for this one too!
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Today we’re using a stamp pad. And our fingers!
Because after all: who needs fancy art supplies if you have your imagination and some color?
I see fruit everywhere – even in my finger prints! I guess my mind is all set on Foodie Art, since my online class ‘Draw It Like It’s Hot’ started last Friday – it’s not too late to join me in a 4-week journey of delicious artmaking fun. Click here to enroll.
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By: Koosje Koene,
on 5/25/2016
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Beginning a new sketchbook can be quite exciting and a little bit scary. You don’t know what the paper will be like, how it will combine with your favourite art tools, whether or not you’re going to like it as much as the previous sketchbook you just filled and got kind of attached to… and above all a lot of people fear that first blank page. WHAT to do with it? It has to be meaningful, because it’s a new beginning, it should be a great drawing because it’s the first page of many to follow. Really?
I mean, really really?
No. It’s just the first page. Go for it, if the drawing isn’t as great as you hoped, there is a whole sketchbook left to make up for that flawed drawing. And does it HAVE to be meaningful? Says who?
I got this Stillman and Birn sketchbook on a trip to New York and dived right into it. I sat on the couch and my husband was playing the banjo so I thought I’d draw him. A nice way to practice gesture drawings, hands, faces. as soon as I put the first lines onto the paper I knew things were going to be out of proportion, but I went along with it anyway. To fix things a little, I kept adding things and used hatching lines, and added a bit of blue watercolor. Then I just flipped the page and went on with the next one, not really thinking about it that much and leaving the left page blank.
Then, in Sketchbook Skool‘s kourse ‘Polishing’, we have an amazing Mixed Media artist: Juliana Coles. I am so happy for her to join the Fakulty! What she does is a different style of art journaling than we’ve covered so far in Sketchbook Skool. She layers her pages with drawings, paint, collage, lettering and anything she can find and feels the page needs. she uses writing to spill her thoughts or emotions onto the page and by adding layers of colours and lettering and photos and more paint, she builds very personal, emotional and just beautiful sketchbook pages. She keeps polishing the pages, getting back to them again and again, sometimes over the years. A page is never a finished piece – it can keep evolving and that is so interesting!
It is so different from what I do, and I need to take a big step out of my comfort zone to actually do this mixed media stuff. But outside of the comfort zone IS where the magic happens so I love that challenge! And this is one of the beautiful things about Sketchbook Skool. One week you may be completely inside my comfort zone drawing a meal following Matthew Midgley‘s lead, and a week later you’re exploring and discovering a whole new approach to making art!
So Juliana gives the Sketchbook Skool Students a piece of homework to do the same. She suggests you can look for a page in your sketchbook that you don’t like so much (or that you DO like), and start spicing it up.
So I took out lots of art tools, even ones that I hadn’t used for quite a while and dusted those off, took that page above, and this is what I made:
I also made a video to share my process with the Sketchbook Skool Students, and this is it:
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By: Koosje Koene,
on 4/25/2016
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Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!
When you don’t know what to draw… Then, what to draw?
The things you like most are actually a lot of fun to draw. The subject will be familiar to draw, and enjoyable.
I love food related art, and I love good coffee, so today I just pick a few favourite styles of coffee, and draw those. Adding banners to use as ‘titles’ for each item is a great way to unify the elements in your illustration. For these coffees, I can write the ingredients and even the measurements next to it, and then it becomes an illustrated recipe!
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One of my favourite “go-tos”, to draw in my art journal is coffee. What’s yours?
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Feet. I know people who are totally grossed out by them. Well, by other people’s feet. I am on the other end of the spectrum. I think feet are intriguing.
Like drawing hands, I love drawing my own feet. They are great for drawing negative spaces, for practiciing gesture drawings, or to study shadows, to name a few things.
They are always there to model for me in many poses, and are willing to go naked; that’s when they look best.
Drawn with a Lamy Safari fountain pen, medium nib, filled with Carbon Ink, coloured with watercolours
Luckily, there are more bare feet in our household, so I get to draw them from many angles, using different art tools to play with.
Drawn with a Lamy Safari fountain pen, medium nib
Drawn with green and blue coloured pencils from prismacolor and a red Staedler ergosoft coloured pencil
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Occasionally, in my online classes or in reaction of my Draw Tip Tuesday videos, people ask me questions that start with: ‘What is the secret to…’. Or comments like ’You make it look so easy’.
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if the simple answer would be: “If you buy this pen by Brand X, you will be able to draw everything you want”. But, as you already suspected – that’s not the case.
Maybe if we were studying on Hogwarts we could make it work, but even then you would need to really search for the right wand that fitted your needs best, before even starting to learn the first small steps towards making magic happen.
Walking the Path
As a kid I had this image in my mind of me behind a beautiful piano, playing music as if it would flow right out of my fingers. Even though I kept hoping I would some day magically be able to play complex classical pieces, I learned that just attending class each week, wasn’t going to get me there.
Practicing every day was the only key to moving forward, learning a piece bit by bit. Eventually I gave up, believing I was lacking the talent, but in fact I was lacking the motivation, endurance, patience and, well… ‘passion’. I wanted to be that piano player, but I didn’t want to walk the path to become one. It felt like an obligation rather than something I really wanted to do, all the time – like drawing.
Years of practice
When people comment on my art and say: “you make it look so easy” or “you are so talented”, I feel quite honored and I take it as a huge compliment. But what they often don’t realize is that what I now draw in half an hour time, took me years and years of practice. And I’m never done learning – which I love!
There are no Shortcuts
Enough about me. What can you do to develop your art skills?
With any form of art, and with developing a creative habit or any habit at all, there are no shortcuts.
You need to take one step at a time, make mistakes, learn from them, explore different tools and techniques and find out if they fit you and your needs. lowering expectations helps on the one hand, but you also need to keep challenging yourself to accomplish new goals and stay motivated. You need to find the balance by not setting the bar too high.
To boil it down for you, here are 5 ‘Secrets to Success’:
1. There are no shortcuts
2. Make as many mistakes as you can – and learn from them
3. Explore tools and techniques – and find out what works best for you
4. Lower expectations – don’t set the bar too high right away
5. Keep challenging yourself
Now get your creative habit going!
Starting February 1, in my online art class ‘Awesome Art Journaling’ I will guide you through the weeks, and together we will fill our journal pages with awesome art. You can learn to make memorable daily journal entries with the practical tips and tricks I give you, and through experimenting with materials and techniques. Develop creative ideas and make every day an Awesome Art Journal day.
It’s only $69 for a whole month and at the end of class you will receive a workbook to keep nurturing your art habit for another month. If you haven’t joined already, what are you still waiting for?
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Whatever you do, I hope you will enjoy walking that path – no shortcuts, just a lot of fun making awesome art!
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By: Koosje Koene,
on 1/17/2016
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Yesterday I showed the travel journal pages I filled before the new year started. Here’s more!
Food, of course… I just have to document it, when it’s good. Can’t help myself.
We rented a motorcycle and left Chiang Mai City. Travelling light has a lot of advantages. You don’t need to schlepp around all kinds of unnecessary things (that you won’t use anyway) all the time, and you can travel with 2 people on one motorcycle. One bag in front, one at the back and you’re good to go!
So we went up north and found a gorgeous place – a treehouse resort of which I will share a drawing later, in a different post. 
Oh and.. more food…
A page in my mini-sketchbook on a sleepy morning in Mae Ha Pra. Doing art during breakfast.
And one of those typical drawings where the hand goes and starts drawing lines and the mind goes: “What are you doing? are you really going to draw all these leaves? This is way too complex!”. Because I really loved the feeling of the black ink lines flowing onto the watercolour background I prepared the night before, it was easy to ignore that voice in my head and just go along with it, bit by bit. I am very happy how it turned out and it reminds me of the fact what a difference it can make to work on a watercolour background – the sunny yellow adds so much to this line drawing!
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Here’s just a collection of fun foodie-art!
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I dedicated my Strathmore Grey toned paper sketchbook to draw places. Whenever I have a bit of extra time, I pick it up and make use of it. I find drawing with blanck ink, and then adding some colour with colour pencils, works really well with the grey background paper.
The cappuccino I ordered in this coffee place in Amsterdam lasted as long as my drawing time; an hour. Yup, I ended up with the last sips being really cold.
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Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!
Here’s a fun tip to mix media:
When you made a drawing using watercolors, you can add a little extra by hatching with colour pencils.
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Welcome to Draw Tip Tuesday!
Remember how I showed you a few tricks for watercoloring last week?
Let’s add another layer today. Not wet-in-wet, but wet-on dry. And see what happens!
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Last year when I was in New York, I visited a couple of art supply shops and came back to Amsterdam with my trolley being super heavy because of the stacks of sketchbooks I found of sizes and brands that aren't so easy to get by here in the Netherlands. They are great souvenirs and will last quite a while too!
One of the sketchbooks I found there was a Strathmore toned paper book. In the netherlands, you can only get them with a ring binding and a flappy front and back, this one is nicely bound with a hard cover.
I had been drooling over Miguel Herranz's toned sketchbook pages, and even made a little drawing of my coffee in Danny's grey toned sketchbook when we met in Amsterdam in 2013. Both of them had told me that there is quite a challenge in finding the right way to make good use of the toned paper and to keep at it until the very last page. Others too told me that the toned background is fun but tricky.
So I knew it was time to try it myself. If you follow me here on my blog or elsewhere on social media, you will have seen many of these toned paper sketches in the past months.
I found that the brown paper background seemed to work really good with black pen and a pinch of white. I used a white gel pen for bright whites, but a white colour pencil could do too. Sometimes I would add a dash of 1 single colour with colour pencil. A grey brush pen was wonderful to add some shadows, or to create a bit of a 'blurry' background. Watercolours did not work at all, colour pencils however, gave a bright effect. I discovered though that in all drawings I should use a graphic approach and stay away from super realistic pencil or colour pencil drawings. Think black pen lines were mostly the best basic starting point.
And then, finally, during my stay in Norway, when I had hours of drawing time, I sat down at the small kitchen table to draw the kitchen. At first I made a black line drawing and added shading with hatching lines. I was pretty happy about the result - but I wanted to get all the colours in too. So I grabbed my colour pencils and instead of colouring each surface evenly, I decided to keep on hatching.
So finally, almost at the end of the sketchbook, Ifound the right approach for this toned paper background! Such a revelation!
I discovered not just the technique that worked best for me, but also the subject that works best: rather than drawing an object, I should draw (part of an) interior!
So I made another interior drawing, of the living room (in the back, you can see the blue kitchen table I made the kitchen-drawing at).
At the last day, I sat myself down on a tree trunk in the front garden to draw the cottage again and played around a little more with my coloure pencils.
Boy am I glad I bought another one of those sketchbooks: I have one with grey paper and I might just dedicate it to drawing interiors only. It'll take a while to fill it because these drawings are quite elaborate, but that's okay - it may be a great project for winter!
Just because it's Friday, here's a collection of yummy strawberries for you, drawn with colour pencils on a watercolour background wash.
...and an early morning sketch I did while soaking up some vitamin D in the early morning sun
Have a great weekend!
So here I was, completely consumed drawing the velvet-y, yellow, orange colours of the blushing pieces of fruit in front of me, smelling their mouthwatering sweetness. Carefully choosing the colours from my colour pencil boxes, enjoying each stroke of my hatching and cross hatching lines. Then adding a fun piece of text.
....and apparantly totally switched onto a side of my brain that doesn't think - just create.
...only after finishing, I realized I combined words that didn't match!
So I laughed and added another another small sentence at the bottom.
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Parmenides, in the Way of Mortal Opinion, envisions the sensible world to be governed by Fire and Night, understood as cosmic principles. As a consequence, Parmenides conceives of the colors as themselves mixtures of light and dark. Parmenides’ view, here, is in line with an ancient tradition dating back at least to Homeric times.
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Do you ver catch yourself saying 'I have nothing to draw'? Well here's a tip: look down! There's always something interesting to draw!
If you need more idea, or even a little kick-in-the-butt to fill your art journal pages, you might like my 4-week online workshop
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Sometimes in the morning, you are only half awake and just took your first sip of coffee, but then there's that moment that you realize you have something really pretty in front of you. So: sketch it!
Need some help with that? Not the breakfast, but the drawing of it, I mean. Check out my
online class on drawing food and illustrating recipes. It's $69 for 4 weeks and it starts tomorrow!
Do you like traveling as much as I do?
I am a lucky girl because I get to travel every so often now for
Sketchbook Skool. I have been recording new video lessons for the third kourse of Sketchbook Skool! A bit tiring, and when you travel for work, you get to see less of course, but still: such adventures! Paris is so close to Amsterdam, I am asking myself why I haven't visited for almost 15 years. The fast speed train takes you to the heart of the city in just 3 hours time. And I was quite amazed about my French - it wasn't too bad, or well, I could make a little bit of conversation and could understand quite a bit.
Even though the schedule for the two days we had planned in Paris were very full, I managed to draw a little.
A few days later, I found myself in the middle of Stockholm. The old city is so very pretty, and there's sketch opportunities on every corner of the street (just like in paris).
As a true Amsterdammer, I do everything by bicycle. I hardly ever take public transport to get from A to B in the city. Even when it rains, with a lot of wind, cold or even snow, I simply hop on my bike that's parked across the street. And yes, everywhere in Amsterdam, you see bicycles. They're parked everywhere. There are Bicycle racks for them, but there are just way many more bikes than there's space in the racks. If I 'have nothing to draw', there's always bicycles around to draw. A wonderful challenge, every time.
Draw tip: don't draw the bicycle. Say what? Yes, that's right - don't think about the bicycle, its wheels, construction and frame. Look at the negative spaces that you see - it really helps to get the shapes in that way.
I am quite attached to my old hand-me-down bicycle, but it's almost falling apart and it needs replacement. But not before I portrayed it! (again: by drawing the negative spaces!)
Chocolate and coloured pencils. Can it get any better?
Are you a bit of a 'foodie', like I am?
It's 4 weeks for $69 and there's a LOT of fun involved.
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Next week, my online class 'Draw It Like It's Hot' is starting. And as you can see, I'm already warming up for it!
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| Last week, I made a quick visit to Stockholm. Such a nice city - I want to visit again and spend more time! Of course, traveling means a lot of adventure, also on your plate! (had some wonderful pickled herring there too, which I didn't draw - I think I would've drooled all over my sketchbook!) |
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| The Turkish coffee, just the coffee cup in itself, makes me want to go to Istanbul. It's been on my list for a long time! |
'Draw It Like it's Hot' runs for four weeks but lasts much longer. It's only $69 for the 4 weeks, in which I give you tips and tricks and teach you all about illustrating food. It's fun, and you'll end up creating your very own illustrated recipe.
It's true: I love flowers, they are a luxury item that is easy to get here in the Netherlands and they make the house feel alive, fresh and cheerful. But a bunch of carrots, or radishes, or well, any other kind of vegetable makes me just as happy, as they are so interesting to draw!
Looking forward to get more colour pencil drawings done during my
upcoming online drawing course 'Just Draw It!', starting next Monday.
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It's always great fun to create a piece of work, simply for your own enjoyment.
Grabbing some time to experiment with new techniques also keeps your portfolio fresh.
Air Australia is a promo piece that I'm going to be using for my postcards and prints.
Please visit my portfolio to see more work.
My best friend just gave birth to a baby girl, so I thought this pink page would be suitable to post today. (I made a special dinner with the theme 'pink' for her baby shower last weekend, just in time! That's what this page is about)
A bit too much Girliness? Well then, here's some Sunny Sunday Bliss for ya!
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Am I obsessed? Probably. But I'm having fun, and that's important.
More selfies, yes!
Film themed, most of these. Can you recognize the movies?
Nope, the one in the middle below is not Wolf Man themed - it was a selfie I did of myself making a face, but I messed it up... ah well.
Oh and the one below on the bottom right is not Film Themed either. That's just what I look like right after waking up: wrinkled up.
Wether I'm obsessed with making selfies or with filling journal pages... it doesn't really matter. I can share some tips on how to start a daily drawing habit, and how to keep it. This Monday my online workshop Awesome Art Journaling starts. It runs for 4 weeks and costs $69.
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